Sam Sheehan writes about the Celtics for CelticsHub and on Tuesday he created one of the best memes of the NBA season. Celtics fans and bloggers are getting their first full look at the Kyrie Irving experience, which as you probably know can include some very interesting quotes.
Irving likes to challenge conventional wisdom about just about everything, and he’s certainly done some pondering about the life, the universe and everything. Irving’s wokeness has become one of the strangest storylines of the past year, since it was revealed last All-Star break that he’s a Flat Earther (or, at least is acting like one).
Those monologues are pretty unique in basketball, but perhaps they aren’t so unusual if you put them in another context like, say, comic books. That’s exactly what Sheehan did on Tuesday, when he posted some photoshops on Twitter that swapped out quotes from Dr. Manhattan of Watchmen fame and used things Irving has actually said to replace his monologues (with the added touch of doing it in comic sans font).
The result was, of course, hilarious.
https://twitter.com/SamSheehan/status/950829126411309057
If you’re not a big comic book person but never log off, you know of Dr. Manhattan from this meme, which people often posted in 2017 as the world continued to embrace the inevitability of entropy.
Sheehan has a bunch of other examples on his Twitter account, and all of them are hilarious. Seeing Irving quotes like that out of context, or rather in a very specific context like Watchmen panels, makes them all that more bizarre.
Irving can poke fun at himself all he wants in an effort to sell some shoes, but this is the funniest Irving-related joke we’ve seen in a long time. Perhaps Irving will grow tired of getting caught in the tangle of our lives and move on, but hopefully he has a sense of humor about all this.
