Video: Carmelo Anthony Dominates Hipsters, Jews

by Seth on Oct 25, 2011 8:00 AM EDT in Videos

Carmelo Anthony's new Jordan commercial (also featuring Dwyane Wade and Chris Paul, who I guess are basketball players for other teams) aired during Monday Night Football last night (or so they tell me). Perhaps it is something you might like to watch. If it is, I've embedded it right here after this paragraph:

I'm pretty disappointed that I didn't even get an audition to play the role of "Williamsburg Pick-Up Baller" OR "Under-40 Jew". I need a new agent. And yes, Posting and Toasting is now devoted solely to whatever footwear Carmelo Anthony happens to be peddling. It pains me that this lockout is so deeply entrenched and unmistakably enduring that companies like Jordan are willing to commit resources to ads like this one. I hate this stupid buttmouth lockout so much. If I had a Jordan Brand, I'd just make commercials that say exactly that.

(Tip of the hat to the kindly bros at Quickish.)

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It's no accident

That Melo and CP3 are on the same team at the end of the commercial and playing against Wade. That’s how it’ll be in 2012 if it ever happens amiright?

by JaDubin5 on Oct 25, 2011 9:43 AM EDT reply actions

and if you notice

they’re both wearing orange

"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Steve Jobs to win the lotto." - Chris Rock

The NBA - Where 2012 doesn't happen

Patrick Ewing - The NBA's all-time leader in rushing yards

by Taylor Made on Oct 26, 2011 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Uh oh.

Do we have another Charlie Ward situation here?

I'm the fan formerly known as Serious Garbage Time

by Bernard King's Game Face on Oct 25, 2011 10:21 AM EDT reply actions

I liked that commercial.

by Osborn on Oct 25, 2011 10:59 AM EDT reply actions

I, too!

Posting and Toasting: DWTDD.

by Seth on Oct 25, 2011 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions

wow

the entire blocked shot sequence at 1:33 is well done. The block itself, the shooter having the presence of mind to protect his yamaka in mid air, the cringing Rabbi….excellent stuff. Borderline anti-semetic, but funny nonetheless.

by total hermination on Oct 25, 2011 12:25 PM EDT reply actions

Um

I’ve been Jewish for nearly all of my life and I don’t think it’s anti-semitic to suggest that Carmelo Anthony is better at basketball than the average Jewish rec-leaguer.

I'm the fan formerly known as Serious Garbage Time

by Bernard King's Game Face on Oct 25, 2011 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions

lol...hey you brought up Charlie Ward....I was just playing off that!

seriously though, I’m Jewish too and I was just surprised to see that kind of humor in a mainstream TV Nike ad. You don’t see that much outside of Seinfeld and Curb episodes.

by total hermination on Oct 25, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions

jew here too!

love jewish jokes, this commercial just made my day

by Michael Bildirici on Oct 25, 2011 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey now in defense of Jewish Rec-leaguers everywhere

I play every Thursday with Rabbi Axelrod, and that cat can Ball! He’s also like 6’9 so that helps.

by Robert Curre on Oct 26, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Not a bad commercial at all

by WSD on Oct 25, 2011 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

CP3's first location looked like a game of NBA street.

The latest version back in 2007 where Melo was on the cover? That one. There was a place about CP3 and that was the place. Pretty sure.

by DCyanks21 on Oct 25, 2011 2:53 PM EDT reply actions

Video: Carmelo Anthony Dominates Hipsters, Jews

Great headline or greatest headline?

Stainer of mountaintops.

by Chairman Meow on Oct 25, 2011 10:11 PM EDT reply actions

I just watched the video

That was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. I would pay anything to see a complete Melo/Hipster or Melo/Jew game. Particularly the hipster one.

I’ll share my drinks if anyone wants to watch with me.

Stainer of mountaintops.

by Chairman Meow on Oct 25, 2011 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions

PBR? Damn dude where we watching the game in your doublewide?

by Robert Curre on Oct 26, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Does being happy whenever I see PBR at a party make me a hipster?

I mean, I don’t have a speech that I keep in my back pocket about the merits of PBR like I imagine most hipsters do, but it sure beats Busch Lite and Keystone Lite.

Anxiously awaiting the day my username will be appropriate

by knickswin on Oct 28, 2011 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I love PBR and get it all the time because it's $13 for a 30 rack in PA.

I get called a hipster all the time, doesn’t make it taste any worse.

by Osborn on Oct 31, 2011 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Note at the Posting and Toasting BBQ I am supplying the beer!

by Robert Curre on Nov 1, 2011 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions

JOOOS!

Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows

by Rorschach44 on Oct 26, 2011 1:34 PM EDT reply actions

Baaaaawx~

Fish Fingers give me a break.

by GAx on Oct 26, 2011 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Love this commercial!

Feel like David Stern would be pissed about it too!

It’s actually kinda bold when you think about the premise and such too. Definitely is sending a message to the players and owners to just setlle this crap.

Great idea to just have guys invade the different rec leagues and dominate. I especially enjoyed seeing the same guys in multiple leagues too.
Only thing that would have made it better would be if the players were trying to blend in (purposely poorly too). Like picture Wade in a frame donning a fake beer belly, or Melo putting on a fake beard or something. Even Hasidic Jews have a good sense of humor!

"Madison Square Garden is the ultimate basketball stage. That's where I belong. That's where I live. That's the home of the New York Knicks." - Amar'e Stoudemire

by Chris Child's Fist on Oct 28, 2011 11:53 AM EDT reply actions