Hornets Hype

Definition: Player who is not a member of your hometown/primary team, whose pure awesomeness you have come to admire thanks to watching the NBA playoffs. The Playoff Crush, unlike the real life crush, is not predicated on physical attractiveness but rather on some combination of the aforementioned awesomeness factor (see Game 7 vs. Cleveland), on-court personality, and other X factors that vary depending on the person.

Example: 1) I have a playoff crush on Paul Pierce, who I find inexplicably sexy despite the fact that he is, let’s face it, not really hot. 2) Many people around the internet were heard to proclaim their playoff crushes on Chris Paul when the Hornets hit the playoffs and you could actually watch them on TV.

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Playoff Man Crush: If you are a dude, what you have is a Playoff Man Crush. Right on, guys. Own that shit.

Footnote 1: How you like that blog hijack?

Footnote 2: I am not sure that there’s any Hornet player for whom, if you run a Google search, as many pictures of him at bars immediately pop up as do when you Google Paul Pierce. Haha.