Good Prank – Random 7'1" Guy Showed Up to The NBA Draft in a Suit + Portland Trailblazers Hat and Took Pictures With Fans Who Thought He Was Drafted
Credit – (TikTok, @bigbrodicee)
What a fun life hack for all the 7-foot tall human males out there. Honestly, anybody 6'8" or bigger could probably pull it off. For two nights a year (since the NBA insists on splitting their 60 pick draft into two primetime television events), if you're an absurdly tall person, all you need is a decently fitting suit, a fake chain, and a Portland Trailblazers hat to have your choice of any girl in Brooklyn and get free drinks at the bar of your choice. Although going to a bar expecting free drinks could backfire. It worked for the guy in that video, but I can just as easily see tall guy winding up in a situation where people are expecting him to pay the bar tab for the whole damn restaurant. I mean, he's about to sign a multi-million dollar contract, right? If he's gonna come in here rubbing his success in everyone's faces, the least he could do is buy a round.
But using your insane height to trick non-ball knowing strangers into believing you've been drafted by the Portland Trailblazers, that's a quality prank right there. And for personal reasons, even if it's not for a video, if you're over 7-feet tall it's probably not a bad idea to show up to the NBA Draft in a suit. In the late second round, when the players being taken have roughly a 0.1% chance of making it in the NBA, you might just fuck around and get yourself drafted. I certainly wouldn't put it above an NBA GM who's draft board has gone to shit to get flustered and draft some random tall guy he sees sitting in the second level. GM's have certainly done dumber things (trade Luka Doncic, draft Bronny James, etc.).
It also must be a little depressing to be over 7-feet tall and not make it in the NBA. When you grow up that tall, I'm sure you've had people telling you your whole life that you're going to play in the league one day. So it must be nice to cosplay as a man who achieved his dreams for at least one night out of the year.
Although to be fair to non-basketball playing 7-footers, being 7-feet tall isn't quite the ticket it used be. Back in the day, any 7-footer with a pulse was at minimum getting a look. Nowadays, if you're merely in the 7'0"-7'1" range, you've also gotta be freakishly athletic on defense, and be able to hit an open three. You can't just be a 7-foot body anymore. Even Hunter Dickinson, who's listed at 7'2", 265 lbs and is a pretty solid three-point shooter went completely undrafted. You gotta be about 7'5" before you can just roll out of bed and tall your way into the association. I've long said that of all professional athletes, the 7'5" center is by far the least impressive. I don't think people realize just how horrifically untalented a player like Zach Edey is. I really think you could take almost any starting high school point guard in America, and if you Space Jammed their talents into Zach Edey's body, he would be a surefire Hall of Famer.
Sorry, that's aside the point. I can never pass up an opportunity for Zach Edey slander. That was a good wholesome prank by Dice (the tall man in the Portland Trailblazers hat). Good pranks are hard to come by these days. Especially now that the Impractical Jokers have been outed as sex pests (allegedly), pranking has become a lost art. All we're left with are the YouTube pranksters, and those are some of the worst human beings the world has to offer. There's zero thought or creativity put into their videos. Their pranks aren't even pranks. They literally just do shitty things to people, then when the people they "pranked" gets angry they say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Chill dude! It's a prank! See the camera? I was only sexually harassing your girlfriend in public so I could post it on the internet. Doesn't that make you feel better now?"
So thanks for the good prank Dice (@bigbrodicee). Cheers to Portland.
