Kristaps Porzingis is swatting away the familiar punchlines, from New York to Springfield.
Sunday night’s episode of “The Simpsons” featured some good old-fashioned animated mockery of the Philadelphia 76ers, via Kwik-E-Mart proprietor Apu.
Well, 5-37 is 5-37, but Nerlens Noel and Co. are just trying to get by, ya know? A bit harsh.
Well, as noted by SB Nation’s Posting and Toasting blog, the joke was originally conceived to burn the Knicks, but was rewritten a month ago.
“You New Yorkers have Kristaps Porzingis to thank for it being changed to the Sixers,” episode scribe Michael Price wrote on Twitter.