NBA champ Warriors mercilessly roasted on Twitter after dorky newspaper fashion shoot
SAN FRANCISCO -- Take the NBA's most popular team, some dorky photos and perhaps a secret ingredient-- the evening hours of a national pot-smoking holiday--and what do you get?
So many jokes.
A perfect storm of comedy touched down in the Bay Area spontaneously on Wednesday night after the defending champion Golden State Warriors participated in a newspaper fashion shoot.
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We'll get to the memes -- God bless the memes -- but first let's set the context.
On Wednesday afternoon, the San Francisco Chronicle published a piece online in which the newspaper took a look at each Warrior's personal style. It's a stylish package involving a lot of hard work by a lot of people.
It's also great joke fodder.
The Chronicle piece features a posed full-body shot of each Warriors player, images which are supposed to give readers a sense of each guy's "personal style off the court."
But those posed photos are just begging for snarky commentary.
Here are some of our favorite riffs.
1. The whole team
2. The whole team, again
3. Marreese Speights
4. Klay Thompson
5. Klay Thompson, again
6. Draymond Green
7. Anderson Verajao
8. Festus Ezeli
9. Shaun Livingston
10. Brandon Rush
Standing ovation, everyone. Just a phenomenal effort all around.
The Warriors continue their NBA Playoffs series against the Houston Rockets on Thursday night at 9:30 p.m. EST.
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Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.