Slapping a Confederate stars & bars sticker on your Japanese Acura CL family sedan.
bahahaha.
I saw this while I was coming home from work. I was expecting to have a fairly unpleasant slog through a route of traffic that I knew that I would be facing regularly from now on, but I have to admit that seeing this amusing unity of conflicting automotive elements made the drive a little more tolerable, as I found myself laughing over this several times over throughout the crawl.
TL;DR – NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, wishes to explore the idea of creating rules to discourage the use of the strategy known as “Hack-A-Shaq.” Kobe Bryant disagrees, stating that it would set a bad example for the NBA and aspiring basketball players.
I’m with Kobe on this one. In short, Hack-A-Shaq is a basketball strategy in which teams deliberately foul the worst free throw shooter(s) on the opposing team, repeatedly, to send them to the free throw line where they ostensibly will miss both or make just one out of two free throws resulting in 0 or 1 points on the possession, instead of 2, 3 or 4. It was named after Shaquille O’Neal, a notoriously poor free throw shooter, who endured countless intentional fouls, to send him to the line, to hinder his team’s offensive output. And the strategy has only grown and continued since the reveal of the name and tactic, as free throw shooting has continued to devolve into a dying art, and percentages are plummeting throughout the entire league.
Sometimes, it’s used when a team is ahead, and they want to preserve their lead, so they deliberately start Hacking-a-Shaq so that the opponents’ ability to chip away at the lead is suppressed, and they are unable to build any substantial momentum. More often, it’s used when a team is behind, and they use Hack-a-Shaq to stop the clock, minimize the opponent’s ability to stretch the lead, and to try and maximize the number of possessions they can get.
