I thought the summary for this video of newly-minted Los Angeles Laker Dwight Howard playing Pop-A-Shot with a kid during a shoe company-sponsored promotional tour of China would be pretty straight-forward (“here’s Dwight Howard doing a thing, everybody”), but I keep noticing funny things about it.

Firstly, it’s from the amazingly-named “funneyballchannel”. Secondly, the description for the YouTube video makes me feel like I just learned how to read. It’s like a basketball ransom collage.

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Durant’s 2012 China trip casually connected into seven three-pointers
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Dwight Howard China Shanghai Station

Thirdly, it’s funny enough when Howard starts “cheating” and swatting his opponent’s balls away, but what I love about it is that the kid doesn’t even seem to notice until like three shots have been blocked. I guess that’s how it goes when you’ve locked yourself into Pop-A-Shot greatness. Fourthly, is that the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing in the background? That’s the most surreal soundtrack to a Dwight Howard/Chinese kid arcade showdown ever.

Fifthly, Burnsy is busy for most of the day and doesn’t get to write about this. Sixthly, the follow-up video is Dwight doing shots and screaming I AM A PING PONG MASTAHHHH in a fake Chinese voice when he wins at table tennis:

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On last night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, L.A. Clipper Blake Griffin joined LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Charles Barkley on the shortlist of NBA stars who’ve been humiliated at the Chuck E. Cheese’s version of basketball by Ricardo, a Los Angeles busboy who happens to be fantastic at Pop-a-Shot. To make it fair, Ricardo shot blindfolded, and even that wasn’t enough to stop him from sinking a last minute basket and going ahead of Griffin 57-60 in the closing moments. Griffin responded by sulking away and spending the rest of his tokens on Revolution X.

I think this is a great way to use our sports celebrities, especially when they play for the Clippers and don’t have anything to do for the last two months of the season. I’m throwing out a challenge right here, right now: Al-Farouq Aminu, I think I can kick your ass at Whack-a-Mole, and I’m willing to prove it on any late night network television show. Oh man, George Lopez is going to lose his f-ing mind when he sees how many moles I’ve whacked. You’re mine, Al-Farouq Aminu!

[via television]