In previous video descriptions I have beseeched the people who run the Hawks television broadcast to give me more footage of Dewayne “Judge Dedd” Dedmon doing his “dialing long distance” three-pointer celebration. Well, it appears my beseechments have been acknowledged, because I was presented with several shots of Dedmon doing the celebration while I was in the process of compiling this highlight video.
I don’t know why his celebration resonates so strongly with me, but it does. Maybe it’s the old-school “phone call” hand gesture, which is a throwback to when phones were actually contoured to your face rather than just being a flat rectangle. Maybe it’s the fact that a career role-player like Dedmon, who started on the fringes of the league and worked himself up through the ranks with grit and determination (presumably), finds himself in a position where he can have his own celebration for something and have it not be pathetic (think how sad you would be if somebody like Thon Maker came up with his own three-pointer celebration).
In any case, I plan to make fake phone calls of my own whenever I’m playing pickup and I drain a three (which is fairly often). I will immediately become best friends with anybody who recognizes that the origin of the celebration is with Dewayne Dedmon, and I will be best friends forever with anybody who calls him “Judge Dedd” in real life to my face.