Saturday, November 28th, 2009...10:33 pm
Tim Duncan Calls Out Geometric Angle Needed to Make Bank Shot
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Via The Onion:
Immediately after releasing a 12-foot jump shot Tuesday night, Spurs center Tim Duncan called out the angle necessary for the ball to bank off the backboard and into the basket. “Forty-six-point-seven degrees,” said the airborne Duncan, also noting the ball’s initial upward velocity of 14.4 meters per second after a moment of mental calculation.
I’m convinced there is a Spurs fan on staff at the Onion. Over the years they’ve just written so many hilarious, Duncan-based articles.
8 Comments
November 28th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I think you’re absolutely right about there being a Spurs fan at the Onion. Manu has been mentioned in a few articles as well, (http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/injured_manu_ginobili_only) although the Duncan ones are usually the best. I’m curious as to what non-Spurs fans think of the Duncan articles, as they often make fun of his supposed “boring” nature.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:53 am
But they called Timmy the center which any true Spurs fan knows is a no-no!
You are right about this, of course. They have some TP stuff also.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Tim Duncan Releases Decade Worth Of Pent-Up Emotion After Spurs Preseason Loss
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54212
November 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Another error in the article:
“said the airborne Duncan”
November 29th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
How bout another!
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/tim_duncan_makes_citizens
November 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
haha love this one
November 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Funny thing is wouldn’t this one apply more to Mr. Robinson, a noted Math-Genius? Just food for thought, but all of these stories were funny HA-HA!
December 1st, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I just know that the Onion won’t let me down when Tim Duncan announces his retirement, has his number raised to the rafters and is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Those articles will be absolute GOLD; I hope one of them is worthy of an Onion News Network story.
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