The Ringer's "NBA Meme Tournament"

[AP3.0]

This shit got me dying!!

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/10/1/17914716/the-nba-meme-bracket

The NBA is a rich text, and that text has created a rich and indispensable intertext. If you live online—and you’re here, so you do—then you probably can’t imagine a world without Crying Jordan. Or Confused Nick Young. Or Alonzo Mourning Acceptance. The NBA has inspired more memes in common usage than any other sport, and perhaps more than any other entity besides the cat. Memes are integral to the way people communicate online, and NBA memes are woven into the rough fabric of internet discourse.

Using an image of Michael Jordan to comment on all manner of things seems ordinary now. It’s even passé. We live in an era of highly effective weaponized internet memes capable, apparently, of influencing elections. We should, though, try to appreciate how absurd and fascinating this state of affairs is. How did we get here?

 

[AP3.0]

some of these matchups are good af

(1) Crying Jordan vs. (16) Swole Bibby

1. Crying Jordan: The clear favorite. The Kentucky of this tournament. Crying Jordan is simply iconic. The universal shorthand for defeat in the social media age.

16. Swole Bibby: I guess we know what Mike Bibby has been up to: pumping iron in hopes of meeting all those Twitter snipers who roasted the cadaver-like final years of his playing career.

 

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[Infamous114]

I can see Mourning acceptance going far lol

 

[Dwayne]

This nigga KD really got burner accounts


Softest nigga of all time