I’ve taken to pronouncing Brandon Clarke’s last name as “Clarky”. Usually this pronunciation is only done inside my head because I don’t normally have occasion to say his name to other real-life human beings. However, if I did need to talk about Clarke to other people, I would definitely pronounce it “Clarky” in order to distinguish him from other NBA players like Ian Clark and Gary Clark.
Now that I’m thinking about it, though, neither of those two guys is really in the NBA right now. Well, I know for a fact that Ian Clark is in China or something. Noted draft steal and savior of the Rockets franchise Gary Clark could still be in the G-League maybe. I’m not going to bother to look. The point is, Clarke is the only Clark in the league right now, so if you say his name in an NBA context, people should know who you’re talking about as long as the people you’re talking to aren’t total NBA plebs.
Clarke score sixteen in this one but I’m feeling a bit miffed because I was misled as to the nature of his buckets. Four of his points came in the last twenty seconds with his team down ten. That’s not just normal garbage time. That’s worse than garbage time. That’s dumpster time. During dumpster time, nobody is even trying and it’s a chance for scrubs who want highlight videos to artifically pad their stats with undefended buckets.
“B-b-b-but DEE TEE BEE!” you inignantly screech. “The Suns were still playing defense until the very end of the game!”
It might look like that, but it was fake defense. They didn’t want to draw out the game by fouling unnecessarily. That’s how you know it was fake and that’s also how you know that Clarke scored FAKE NEWS BUCKETS which should never have qualified him for a highlight video.