For some reason, New Orleans is home to the most terrifying sports mascots on Earth. The original Pierre the Pelican was nightmare fuel personified and the organization had to change the mascot’s look to make it friendlier.
Changing Pierre was a good step from the Pelicans, but with a less creepy Pierre roaming the sidelines, the organization wasn’t satisfied with the lack of fear-inducing mascots. So, they introduced King Cake Baby, the worst thing to happen to the NBA in years. King Cake Baby is a giant, terrifying looking baby with a crown.
T-Mac is all of us when meeting King Cake Baby pic.twitter.com/dVHhnqkCY8
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) February 16, 2017
The basis for King Cake Baby is that little plastic babies that are hidden in New Orleans’ famous King Cake. How that turned into the monstrosity you see above makes no sense.
With the NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans, we are all going to be subjected to the terror that is King Cake Baby, and poor Tracy McGrady was put face-to-face with fear personified on ESPN’s The Jump set in New Orleans. Poor McGrady cowers in fear, as one is naturally inclined to do around such a terrifying creature, as King Cake Baby pokes him and then requests a hug. McGrady, not knowing how to react, turns and reaches for King Cake Baby’s mouth or nose as the clip ends.
We don’t know what happened after, but I’m forced to assume that McGrady will never be seen again.
