Holy NFL moves, Cavs day-by-day, and “The Crusher”: While We’re Waiting…
March 11, 2015Trevor Bauer went HAM on an “overthinking” inquiry
March 11, 2015Following the Cleveland Cavaliers’ big win over the Dallas Mavericks, the entire team got together for a photo from the team plane. The photo was eventually posted by LeBron James on Instagram and then followed up by countless teammates. Not long thereafter, social media was ablaze with a litany of thoughts surrounding the image, the entire Cavaliers team looking as much of a collective unit as ever, not long after providing a Western Conference powerhouse with their worse loss of the season.
Cliches tell us that pictures are worth a thousand words. Let’s do our best to at least get halfway there:
• Let’s start with LeBron. Front and center, popping off of the page with his potentially to-early-for-the-season khaki-colored ensemble, pointing at you as you take in this image for all of its glory. You know that LeBron was sitting at that front table. It’s interesting to know the hierarchy of “cool kids” who get to chill with him. No surprise, JR Smith is there. Matrix is getting some love. It’s safe to assume that Damon Jones is the fourth and that he’s taking the picture. Also safe to assume he’s wearing sweat pants.
https://twitter.com/willburge/status/575655615415984128
• We immediately go to Delly. Poor Delly with his white guy thumbs up. He just looks so happy to be on that plane. How many times per flight does he push the call button just to see if it dings? Conversely, Brendan Haywood looks like the guy who lost the in-game bet and has to sit next to the kid who just won’t sit still.
• Did they even tell Joe Harris they were taking a picture?
• So many cell phones on that table. Which one of the guys is still rocking the iPhone 4? There’s also this:
@WFNYScott they didn't show Delly's Treo 9000
— Daniel (@dhan_31) March 11, 2015
@WFNYScott delly probably has an LG Phoenix
— Jonas Swecker (@jaswecker) March 11, 2015
• Poor Delly.
• is Perk taking a knee on the floor? Or is he half-sitting on the seat and LeBron’s just backing up to his lap?
• Think these guys don’t go through a lot? Check out Perk’s ring finger. That thing has been battered so many times it looks like it has five joints. And JR’s left pointer finger? It may just be a camera trick, but that thing looks like it’s pointing directly to the floor. Extra points for the top-button Italian restaurant server look.
• The fact that someone went and made Kevin Love a “Menace” hat and he wears it should tell you enough about how he feels about this Cavaliers team. Notice that love, also white, is rocking a thumbs up, but Kev has it going to the side. Exponentially more street points than what Delly is doing over there in Delly Land.
• James Jones is on his tip toes, right? And Timofey Mozgov looks like he wants to destroy the camera.
@WFNYScott true story: Mozgov is seated.
— aintnostoppinObiToppin (@rolub) March 11, 2015
• If you could be on that plane, is there any doubt that the person you wouldn’t want to sit next to is Shump? Dude looks like he’s always having fun and that the most incredibly bizarre things could pour out of his mouth at any time. I just picture Tristan Thompson looking befuddled every time Shump talks. You saw the look on his face when LeBron James went on the floor without his headband, right? Now imagine it when he just blurts “Oh, it’s party time” out of thin air.
• Check out Mike Miller, all incognito between Shump and Tristan. And Kyrie, hanging out in the back—or is it “hanging loose” in the back?
• Poor Delly. He’s the little brother that only we can talk about. He’s our Delly.
13 Comments
Poor poor Delly, this picture makes me feel bad for not liking him.
Sweet pic. Haywood and James Jones look like they’re thinking that if there was a god they would be home with their kids this hour on a weeknight rather than on a chartered red eye somewhere over Texas. Mozgov looks ticked that someone took him away from his pizza.
Shump may be the happiest guy in the NBA, a less obnok Swisher.
For Blatt’s sake I wish the coaches were relating similarly. But I doubt it. Blatt is this year’s lonely unsung hero.
The analysis of this picture is priceless. Well done.
Kevin Love looks like he is getting ready to hitchhike his way to LA.
LOVE IS NOT IN THE FRONT ROW, HE IS UNHAPPY, HE WANTS OUT. WIGGINS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FRONT ROW OF THIS PICTURE.
#longtimelistenerfirsttimecaller
I don’t know who I feel worse for, Delly or Joe Harris.
Delly with the best sports Thumbs Up since Mike Utley!
[thumbs up]
Wiggins would have been stuck in the restroom like his time being in Minnesota. Just ask Love!
” Who’s still rocking the iPhone 5?”
LOL. Only in The United States.
Good work, Scott.
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/3/11/8190161/chill-sitch
Delly does Dallas
Cleveland is about to win a championship!! Holy frickin crapola — look at those doods! They are a team.. and they are having fun.
Cleveland is about to win a championship :))))))