If you’ve never been to Late Night with Roy, I’ll let you in on a little secret: the whole thing is silly.
With that in mind, and my editors expecting several hundred words after they graciously sent me to go watch and tweet about the event, I have brought you some silly takeaways.
Meme-ability
Nassir Little has real star potential. A shot-making wing that flashes a rare interest in playing defense against other wings.
At 6-foot-6-inch, 220 pounds with a 7-foot-1 wingspan, he has good size. More important than literally any of that are the elite intangibles he flashed during the event.
He made that face for 12 seconds. I counted. That’s not a first-year meme moment. That is the meme of a seasoned veteran, just enough of a thousand-yard stare to be slightly unnerving, but still relatable enough to become plastered over the UNC meme pages captioned with things like “Me looking at Alert Carolina telling me there’s a hurricane warning but class isn’t canceled.”
Problems With Leadership
One of the events was a classic egg-in-a-spoon race. The premise was simple. Two teams race to carry an egg in a spoon without dropping it, passing it off relay style. Here’s the thing: