How many times do you think Isaiah Whitehead is going to get mistakenly referred to as “Whiteside” this season? Zero? Ten? A hundred? A thousand? It’s already happened once for sure, and by a Brooklyn commentator no less.
Even I had to rewrite the title for this video three times before I correctly typed Whitehead instead of Whiteside. And that’s DownToBuck making that error. Imagine how hard it is for opposing commentators who don’t know who Whitehead even is and whose arms hurt from jacking off Hassan Whiteside so often.
The number will be lower if Jeremy Lin ever fully returns from whatever that injury he suffered was. Whitehead is making the most of his chances for now (R.I.P. Yogi Ferrell), but the opportunity for commentator name blunders will be lower when he gets relegated back to the ass-end of the bench next to Anthony Bennett.