Another year of the NBA draft means fresh faces coming to the sport. Several of the picks are not even 20 years old. It will likely be hard to discern these players age on the court, but their youngness became wildly apparent when they were asked about ’90s pop culture. ESPN quizzed several of these post-’90s ballers on popular relics from the era. The players couldn’t identify an Easy Bake Oven, Super Nintendo, Destiny’s Child, or even the iconic duo Outkast. The lack of ’90s knowledge held by this new draft generation made people highly upset and take to Twitter to share their existential crisis.
Many people were just plain disappointed in this generation of NBA picks.
Me finding out the NBA draft class 2019 didn't know who Outkast is pic.twitter.com/BmmhV3qVnk
— LoveDoctor (@Hitch_Atl) June 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/__spicflair/status/1142430470749282304
See, the new gen might have known who OutKast were If cartoonetwork didn’t cancel this gem pic.twitter.com/Dca7nunAp8
— Kervv 🗯 (@_kervj) June 22, 2019
The fact that these players were too young to listen to Outkast when they grew up were making many people realize how old they were.
https://twitter.com/jtylerconway/status/1142387060059398144
Hip hop is really starting to age… its still a relatively young genre but its starting to gray up a little bit… we're living in a time where some kids dont know about Outkast….wow…
— MB. 🇧🇲🇯🇲 (@Marc_Burr) June 22, 2019
Others blamed the player’s parents for not introducing them to 90’s music.
If they don’t know who OutKast is, I blame their parents…smh pic.twitter.com/F317IrKVbU
— Leanne__ (@LeeLee_620) June 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/SpazzMuffins/status/1142329752734392320
Some were hoping the iconic group were making new music when they saw Outkast’s name trending.
When you see OutKast is trending and get your hopes up for an album but it’s only because the NBA draftees have no idea who they are pic.twitter.com/UCrHLCyt1v
— Shannon Moorer (@ShannonMoorer) June 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/Joe_Cool91/status/1142364267590668288
https://twitter.com/coolcam101/status/1142323211775827969
The boys also struggled to name Destiny’s Child. Instead, the “Say My Name” group was called “Spice Girls,” “Beyonce Sisters,” and even “The Cheetah Girls.”
Watch Coby White, Rui Hachimura, P.J. Washington, and others get schooled at ’90s trivia.
We took "Name the 90's" to the #NBADraft and these NBA players are WAY younger than you thought 😂 pic.twitter.com/e4aJ5hkag0
— ESPN (@espn) June 21, 2019