Basketball Critic Mugs

'... yes, Mr. Stern. We appreciate everything. It was a very generous donation by the NBA. However, bottom line, the kids hate the synthetic basketballs.'

"Really? They're now giving out non-participation trophies?"

Why moms make bad refs.

'It's a combination of March Madness,,, and Linsanity,'

Gold Medal for IOC boss Thomas Bach in the discipline of Brown-Nosing-Dictators-For-Money.

Maybe we should stop calling it 'The Masters.'

'Call 911! He watched 12 straight hours of football without training adequately.'

"It has great depth, realized with such a unique economy of paint application... yet, there remains a curious aura of drivel I can't dismiss."

"The good news is I used AI to fill in my March tournament bracket and I won the whole thing. The bad news is AI has become self aware and wants the prize money."

Please Do Not Throw Cups of Beer At The Players... It's A Waste of Beer.'

Rest in Peace Instant Replay

'When you said, Dream Team, I thought you meant the Swiss Bikini Team.'

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

'No wonder it was so hard to assemble. I thought it was supposed to be a basketball hoop, not a weapon of mass destruction.'

'Two new NBA franchises: The 'Wall Street Bulls' and the 'Main street bears'.'

Red State Football

'What the... Oh, lucky me - it's just something easy to get rid of!'

Footballer playing for time

'Yes, it's a foul. But is it a flagrant foul?'

'You know you're doing your job right when both coaches are mad at you.'

'This is Role Model Man. He is our new assistant coach in charge of projecting a positive image to impressionable young minds.'

"Why does he keep in the same players?"

"But is it art?"

'I don't want to mention any names, but one of you isn't giving 100% out there.'

'So you're the referee who had the courage to call a Technical Foul on Bobby Knight.'

'You may be wondering what a sex scandal has to do with managing the national team...'

'I suppose this will be a CHARGE?'

'We're sending you down, Hartnett. You need to work on your scratching and spitting.'

Doping

NBA on strike.

'We had a power surge, and the electronic scoreboard seems to have tapped into the CIA's computer.'

According to this tabloid article, two guys who today are a basketabll referee and a politician, were friends as kids with a business selling seashells. The referee says that one sunny day while under an umbrella searching in the muck for shells they found a bunch of slimy, loose change. Or as the tabloid puts it "Whistleblower reveals pol's shady past with dirty money and a shell company!"

'But now for the good news, Bob. The replay was shown repeatedly on Sports Center.'

Group showers. Just one of the reasons few golfers take up football.

Bad Knees.