DeAndre Jordan’s Missed Free Throws Set To Golf Announcer Audio Is The Perfect Match

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There are few certainties in life: death, taxes, and DeAndre Jordan badly missing free throws. Over the course of his career, he’s seized the throne as the NBA’s rightful heir to the detestable Hack-A-Shaq routine. It’s became a staple of late-game scenarios featuring the Clippers’ uber-athletic center and others like him who, for reasons both psychological and mechanical, have never quite perfected their form from the charity stripe.

It’s given us a wealth of unintentional comedy and meme-worthy moments, so we thought we’d revisit one of our favorites. A couple of years back, some internet hero synced up a montage of DJ’s most abominable misses with golf announcers calling missed putts and wayward shots, and as you might imagine, the result is simply delightful.

Not only does it work perfectly; the announcers’ restrained and breathy reverence for the gravity of the moment is oddly comforting to listen to. It’s little consolation for fans who’ve grow increasingly impatient with the practice of intentional fouling and are clamoring to see a rule change sometime in the near future, but we’ll have to take our small victories where we can get them.

Even Jordan has a good sense of humor about it, and to the credit of the YouTube user who created this video, it does feature a small handful of unexpected makes, which somehow manage to be equally as entertaining. Hopefully, Jordan is in a gym somewhere right now using this – and Chris Paul’s departure to the Rockets – as motivation to try and get that percentage up to a more respectable number next season.

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