Much has been made about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ demoralizing loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night. Channing Frye told reporters postgame that the Cavaliers suck. Dwyane Wade spent his media obligations calling the starting unit out. Nothing in Cleveland is fine at the moment.
The situation in Cleveland became even more bizarre hours after the Cavaliers’ loss to the Hawks when footage surfaced of head coach Tyronn Lue losing a silver ring from his mouth during a dead-ball situation. With 6:48 left to go in the 4th quarter, Lue is shown barking out orders when something silver and ring-shaped escapes from his mouth.
Why is there a silver ring in his mouth, you ask? That’s an excellent question, and we cannot wait to hear the answer.The footage is actually kind of mesmerizing. You’re going to watch it a few times, guaranteed.
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In all seriousness, though, what is going on here? Is he like Sonic, and when Cleveland loses rings fall out of his body and we’ve never noticed? The most boring explanation would be some kind of a Lifesaver or mint, but we’ve all seen Lifesavers when they’re on their last legs, and they don’t look like this. NBA arenas have weird lighting, so, maybe it’s just reflecting in a strange way, but it really looks like some kind of a silver ring.
There is some sort of a joke to be made about an NBA Finals contending head coach on the hot seat literally losing rings as he watches his team fall to the 1-8 Atlanta Hawks, but we’re not going to make that joke. Instead, we’re going to watch this footage over and over again like the Zapruder film until we can figure this thing out.
