Happy Friday and happy NBA Appreciation Day! I’m going to keep the text minimal today and just get straight to the point. Remember the MVPuppets? For those of you who don’t, the MVPuppets (LeBron and Kobe in hilarious puppet form) lived together for the purpose of endorsing their Nike sneakers. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they first came around during the ’08/09 season. The ad campaign was obviously created with hope that it would lead up to a finals matchup of Nike’s most predominent basketball superstars. As we’re all very well aware, LeBron wasn’t able to lead his Cavaliers to the promised land in 2009 or 2010, then came The Decision, and that was that. I’m still disappointed. I wanted to see a Cavs/Lakers final… and I really wanted to see the MVPuppets commercials they would’ve come up with for the occasion. Surely they would have been epic. It’s ok, though, because I seriously doubt that the creative minds at Nike could’ve topped this one anyway…
Ooh shnap!
That one little line from puppet Kobe kills me every time! The whole minute is great, but I always found that part to be particularly hilarious. Hands down my favorite commercial of all-time.
More MVPuppets videos here.
Haha, my favorite is the “Dunking on Reindeer” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfcafAekkLs. My favorite NBA commercial of all-time.