Three MTN spray paint cans in a six pack of beer type container? Genius. This particular setup was just so clean and so cool that it needed to be shared. We’re not necessarily here to highlight people’s promotions, but when it comes to the Fourth of July, some retailers really let it all hang out. Red, white and blue Mtn hardcore spectacular starts Friday! #wegohardinthepaint in store only ? #LilRichardApproved Jul 1(Fri) through Jul 4(Mon) Big Dick's Hardware 15618 S Main St Gardena, CA 90248 Tel: (310) 323-5050Ī post shared by Big Dick's Hardware on at 8:19pm PDT “I never thought that anything would go viral like this.” Street Art Sundays “I’m still trying to figure that out,” said Hardiman, who attends Xavier University. I just see this guy, I have no connection with this guy.”Īs for his new internet fame, Hardiman is not quite sure yet. And then when I turned my phone back on, it already had like 8,000 retweets. “As soon as I posted the video, my phone died. I didn’t really think anything of it,” Hardiman, 20, told The Undefeated on Tuesday. “I hear out of the corner of my ear that there’s this guy, that when he takes off his warmups, he’ll have his entire Jordan kit on. He was visiting his dad in Spokane and decided to hit a local court for some run on the holiday weekend.
He was smart enough to whip out a phone and catch this faux Jordan playing some pretty serious defense on the baseline. So, how’d this go viral? A man by the name of Justin Hardiman. But Jordan? You might as well put a Superman outfit on and try to fly. The ONLY way this works is if you choose someone way off the path of genuine NBA celebrity, like, say former NBA player Derrick McKey. If a dude showed up to any court I’ve played on in the last 10 years in that getup, he’d be mercilessly clowned off the court. Wearing basketball jerseys in general to ball, if you are not on said team and out of say, college age, is enough to get a side eye from me, as is.
The obvious wackness of rocking a full uniform for a pickup game need not be stated. My man is apparently a regular at this, too.
He’s got the sweatband, and the knee brace deal, never mind the shoes (Air Jordan XI’s) themselves and the jersey also appears to have an NBA Finals patch on it. There are so many questions to be had in this, but his commitment to the bit is not one of them. One guy this week in Spokane, Washington, took that whole concept to its most illogical extreme, donning a full Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls outfit in a pickup game in which he was actually on the skins side, not shirts. ‘Cause basketball courts in the summer got girls there.” Yeah, I got on sneaks but I need a new pair. “Hustle to the mall to get me a short set. “It’s late in the day and I ain’t been on the court yet,” Will Smith, aka The Fresh Prince, rapped on the opening of the third verse of “Summertime,” his 1991 hit with DJ Jazzy Jeff.
We gave the guy who played pickup basketball in a full Jordan uniform the NBA on NBC treatment.