This week’s suggestion of our good friend to the North, and noted aficionado of all thing hobo-population controlling, Scotchnaut.  He suggested “best supporting athlete/actor ever” as a topic.  He actually suggested it a while ago and I like it enough to bookmark it for a night when it was really hot and humid in Connecticut and I’d spent the day at the gym, installing air-conditioners for a friend of ours who just had spinal surgery, walking the dog 2 miles because he’s too dumb to realize it’s hot, and then kayaking for nearly two hours because I’m too dumb to read a map and correctly estimate a distance, (but I did get to see an osprey power-dive into the water after a fish; it was not successful), and then start drinking before realizing it was Sunday night.

You know, like tonight.

Anyway, we’re going with the person you’d pick if you needed an assist.  I am going to expand it to any figure from pop culture who give the main character a much-needed boost to get things done.  And also from the world of sports.  The only limitation is that it has to be a figure from the public world; we don’t care how helpful your grandmother’s neighbor is.  That’s a draft for ‘Bill Belichick in an alternate world,’  something I am not willing to promise I will never do.

With the first pick Scotchy is taking Bobby Jones of basketball fame, specifically your newly crowned champions Denver Nuggets, and later on Philadelphia 76ers.

Here’s Bobby getting ready to make what looks like a pass leading to an assist.  First one I found.

With the second pick I will take the NHL leader is assists, (2,223; I had to look it up), one Wayne Gretzky.

I desperately need a shower, so the rest of you are on the clock.