Kristaps Porzingis Has Been Practicing With Dirk Nowitzki To Improve His Game And Studying Conor McGregor To Improve His Trash Talk
Since the Knicks were a runaway garbage train around the time of the draft and the beginning of free agency (h/t @PhilJackson11), Knicks fans weren’t able to really dream their typical ridiculous dreams about their team drafting or signing a superduperstar. In fact, reality set in pretty quickly on Knicks fans. We were worried Phil would trade Kristaps Porzingis because of a fucking EXIT INTERVIEW and Frankie Nicotine got hurt his first millisecond with the Knicks. So we couldn’t talk ourselves into an unknown French players because of a few Summer League highlights. At the same time, Dennis Smith Jr. was putting up ridiculous highlights on Twitter so often, I debated actually muting any tweet with his name in it because it reminded me of the last time we drafted a French guy the next person drafted was Ron Artest Metta World Peace Panda’s Friend.
Then we spent the next part of the summer trying to figure out how Tim Hardaway Jr. and Ron Baker were able to lock up the money they did and how Steve Mills ascended to Team President despite being the Knicks GM over one of the worst stretches in franchise history. I still haven’t figured out how that happened actually. I used logic, advanced mathematics, and even some of that common core bullshit. But those decisions are apparently one of those things where you just shrug your shoulders, say “Fuck Dolan”, and move about your day.
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But finally our 7’3″ Latvian unicorn/angel/glitch is allowing us to dream crazy again. New York already loved him because he has game for days and swagger for weeks. The fact KP is looking to get better in these two facets is extremely exciting for fans that usually watch their players cash that Dolan money and slowly drop in Overall Rating in NBA2K.
First the Dirk stuff. I always love when an NBA player hires Hakeem Olajuwon and see them add a baby dreamshake or crazy footwork to their repertoire. But that’s not KP’s game. He has always been compared to Dirk because of his size and his shooting. KP even went with a cold-blooded killer move and his a huge shot in the 4th quarter against the Mavs using Dirk’s one-legged shot and stared down Dirk once he was done.
To see Dirk take the time out to groom a youngster is awesome to see. And it’s like a million times better when the youngster is your franchise’s best hope to stop being a laughingstock.
Looks like Kristaps is already putting those moves to work against chairs and invisible defenders.
Cleanup: Aisle Clem. I’ve talked myself into the Knicks being a good team using a hell of a lot less basketball porn than that.
As for the McGregor stuff, I think that excites me even more.
NYDN- Kristaps Porzingis is hoping for a mental edge by studying a foul-mouthed fighter. While in Africa for the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders program, Porzingis revealed his desire to develop his game outside of basketball — specifically the type of confidence carried by Floyd Mayweather’s next opponent. “I want to improve the mental side. I’m actually amazed by Conor McGregor,” Porzingis told NBA.com on Wednesday, also the Latvian’s 22nd birthday. “I’ve been watching so many of his videos, trash talking, how mentally strong he is. I’ve been really interested in that kind of stuff.”
You see we here at Barstool enjoy people that talk shit. It’s fun to talk about, blog about, and it gets the clicks. Knicks fans love KP because not only is he good at hoops, but he came from fucking Latvia of all places with a natural cockiness to him.
Can you imagine what a guy that acts like that after only two years in the states and looked like this as a kid
can do after he studies a crazy motherfucker like this?
Kristaps Porzingis is already a must watch on the court. But he could become an all-time great showman if he learns how to talk shit from Conor McGregor. I’d love it if KP started saying “FOOK THE BROOKLYN NETS” and called Adam Silver weasel or a creepy alien-looking motherFucker. To watch KP arrive in America as this Latvian angel and see him morph into this badass, tatted up from his nose to his toes, bad mammajamma would be awesome to see.
It’s almost like watching Conor McGregor fanboy Robbie Fox grow as a blogger. Robbie came to Barstool as a super motivated and talented but meek, fresh-faced teenager in college. Then he got his big break by becoming an intern, not masturbating for a few weeks, left a place nobody had heard of, and went pro at an early age. Now he’s blogging his dick off and has already become one of my favorite people on this fucked up site, even if he morphs a full blown junkie.
I can’t wait to see what Kristaps (and Robbie) look like in a few years. The ceiling is the fucking roof for those two.