Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The “F Maxey” Edition

Still bummed? Yes. Game and series in the bag, and then a 4-point play here, a logo 3 there, and a little heavy on the Brunson heroball. All you had to do was not leave your feet and foul up 6 (Mitchell Robinson). Or hit both free throws up 2 (Josh Hart). Or foul once you get to mid court up 3 (anyone)! You know it’s bad when Awful Coaching actually calls out Thibs (though entirely warranted and shows that nobody is perfect and everyone warrants scoldings.) Okay, win one of two home games, that’s all you gotta do. But it’s a “fuck you but props, you balled out” F you to Tyrese Maxey, and not the “you’re a flopper and cheap shot artist” variety directed at Joel Embiid.

While we’re on the topic of Garden notes, according to the NHL the Vichy Whalers are over -150 to win their series with the Rangers, and the current Cup betting favorites at +400? Even considering the vig, that would have them somewhere around -140 without. Hopefully Sharky makes good on his bet. Okay, news time:

-In probably not news, the Broncos will not be taking Cougar Hunter Zach Wilson’s fifth-year option.

Other cuts were taken care of, but the deadline for 5th year options is tomorrow, so we’ll be hearing more on that front, if we haven’t heard them all at this point, considering there would be 32 of them.

What’s on, so I can not think about the Knicks for a night?
Well, there’s hockey:
Road team advantage: LTIR (Bookie broke a knee) vs. Vichy North Stars (VGK vs. DAL, series tied 2-2, 7:30, ESPN)
FREE KASPAROV vs. Idoneal Numbers (which do not include 29 or 97, but do include 18 and 93) (LAK vs. EDM, Oilers lead 3-1, 10:00, ESPN)

And I guess there’s basketball…
South Florida (Basketball not Hockey) Rats vs. 18 or Die Trying (and they might do that too) (MIA vs. BOS, Celtics lead 3-1, TNT, 7:30)
Luka and… Pals? vs. Waiting for the Rebrand (DAL vs. LAC, 2-2, TNT, 10:00)

And other sports?
Lesser Footy:
Canadian Champiounship: Forge FC Hamilton vs. York United FC (FS2, 7:00)
CONCACAF Cup: Jacks vs. A Cromulent Driving Game Series (but fuck microtransactions) (Monterrey vs. Columbus Crew SC, FS1, 10:15)

It was a rough night between watching the Knicks and how Team Momo got ousted in the Marble Survival 100 (where they got beached on the first part of the course… and so did the ghost marble to prevent freeing them). Fortunately they beat the Speeders, so that’s always some sort of consolation slightly outdoing the longstanding gold, uh, standard.

Closing discussion stuff before I get back from teaching:

1. Today’s the 25th anniversary of the first sneak peek of our longtime Wumbo Wednesday banner portrait, SpongeBob SquarePants. What’s your favorite episode, and please note that answers that are not “Band Geeks” or “Chocolate With Nuts” are wrong.
   
2. In absolute money-grab idea, they’re making a Lion King prequel about Mufasa. Apart from this being a terrible idea conceptually built to get Lin-Manuel Miranda his missing Oscar to finish his EGOT—because Bobby Lopez has two of each and is probably insufferable in our high school’s theoretical playwright/songwriter/other creative writer Discord (that I am not a part of if it exists), and the ship’s probably sailed on Sharknado: The Musical: The Movie! but I’d watch the absolute shit out of that—the far more important Lion King franchise-related question is: Which Shakespeare play will this movie be based on? After all, The Lion King was Hamlet, The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride was Romeo & Juliet, and even The Lion King 1 1/2 was Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Wait, Rafiki is Horatio? I mean I guess, considering it can’t be Timon & Pumbaa, but Rafiki doesn’t seem to fit. And obviously Prince Fortinbras does not exist.
   But anyway, I posited this up to Hermana Weaselo, and it’s a good question. My guess is that it would have to be one of the comedies, unless/until it goes into the events of the original movie. Hermana Weaselo recommends Much Ado About Nothing, where he and Sarabi despise each other at first. (Regardless, a Scar movie being based on Macbeth was right there, and they passed it up!)