Nick Van Exel’s Life Changed When He Tried Iced Coffee This Week For The First Time

Coffee: It’s good. The preferred pick me up of everyone from sportswriters and the late Honoré de Balzac is consumed by millions on a daily basis. It can be taken black, it can have a dash of cream and sugar, or you can make it more unhealthy than stuff on the menu at that one restaurant that actively tries to kill you because capitalism rewards this sort of brutal novelty.

But today, we are going to celebrate the bean in the form that I prefer. More specifically, we are discussing Nick Van Exel’s newest obsession, iced coffee. Van Exel is a newfound mud junkie, as he’s apparently never been a big fan of god’s greatest gift to those who could use a refreshing jolt of caffeine.

Life is short, though, and trying new things is an experience in which we should all partake. For the 47-year-old former All-Star guard who was name checked by Jay-Z in the song “Crazy In Love,” that meant trying iced coffee for the first time on Sunday.

This experience has seemed to fundamentally change Van Exel. His Twitter account in recent days has served partly as a shrine to iced coffee and partly as a way for Van Exel to crowdsource recommendations on what he needs to try next.

The truest form of love, though, is when you think of a thing before going to bed and it’s still in your mind upon waking up. The obvious exception to this, of course, is bad things like student loan debt. But iced coffee is a good thing, and it’s all-consuming Van Exel’s thoughts.

Iced coffee is so good, in fact, that Van Exel was unable to stay mad at people for not telling him about it sooner. Also: This was how I learned Sonic has iced coffee.

And on Thursday morning, Van Exel was back at it, this time going to Starbucks.

Nick Van Exel if you are reading this I would love to get an iced coffee sometime. Regardless, shouts to you, and I am going to go drink a cold brew right now.