Twitter Had No Shortage Of Jokes About Rookie Guerschon Yabusele’s Challenging Name

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With the 16th pick in Thursday night’s NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics selected French forward Guerschon Yabusele, which is a real person’s actual given name and which, of course, immediately set off a social media firestorm with jokes about that name. Most of us still haven’t even mastered “Giannis Antetokounmpo” yet, so we’re looking forward to a lot Google-based trial and error in our collective futures.

In the meantime, Twitter went to work:

https://twitter.com/riles023/status/746155274256396288

The challenge of pronouncing it correctly on air also promised to yield an endless array of unintentional comedy.

And then there was the general disbelief that he’s an actual person.

https://twitter.com/redsoxstats/status/746152323123187712

https://twitter.com/andrewsharp/status/746152733208641536

https://twitter.com/TacumaRoe/status/746156085975867395

Last but not least, there was this guy, who looks like if Shock G/Humpty transformed himself into a very irate Celtics fan.

https://twitter.com/CauldronICYMI/status/746154026614415361

Solid work, Twitter. Teasing someone for having a funny name is low-hanging fruit, but after all, what would Draft night be without a little mild xenophobia?