Rodney McGruder might win this year’s award of “Player Who No One Has Heard Of Save For Half Of His Team’s Fanbase”. That’s right, only half. Remember, lots of Heat fans still think LeBron is on their team. And who can blame them? The way he left is bound to leave a lot of mental scarring.
Seriously, I don’t think I’ve seen one bit of NBA-related social-media minutiae about this dude. Not even one bit, aside from that vid I did of him earlier this season. He was pretty good in college (apparently he played with Michael Beasley in AAU and at Kansas?), but he wasn’t really an NBA prospect, so he just went away for a bit and then reappeared without anyone noticing.
I just remembered that I did see one bit of NBA-related social-media minutiae about him: a vid the NBA uploaded of him dunking “on” Tyler Zeller. The comments were full of people saying he dunked to the side of him, rather than directly on him. Wow, who cares? A little dude dunked on a big dude, and we have to argue whether it was really a poster or not? Pffft.