Poppycock. Malarkey. Tomfoolery. Hogwash. Gobbledygook. A big ol’ bowl of mumbo jumbo.
There are not enough (publishable) Joe Biden-isms in the dictionary to describe the NBA’s H-O-R-S-E tournament, which aired on ESPN Sunday evening. The broadcast feeds — hammered into our skulls through, to put it diplomatically, spotty Wifi — were equal parts choppy, blurry and warbled. The shots were largely unimaginative. When the trash-talk was intelligible, it was tempered.
And yet, with no live sports available in the ether, all of NBA Twitter was glued to it. Chicago sports Twitter, specifically, to learn the fates of Zach LaVine of the Bulls and Allie Quigley of the Sky.