NBA superfan Lil Wayne makes a splash in a new ad narrated by Chris Rock for the 2024 NBA Playoffs. The one-minute spot that dropped a day before the start of the play-in round of the tournament is based on idea that most A-list NBA players don't even think the playoffs are a “thing.”
It opens with a reporter asking Jayson Tatum if the “Jason playoffs” is a thing, with the Celtics forward dropping his head and saying, “Nah,” as an on-screen caption reads: “Tatum denies it “Playoff Jason” is something. in the spot titled “Playoff Mode”.
“Playoffs Jason is not a thing,” he says sternly in a mock press conference. “Okay, Tatum, we all know it's a thing,” Rock interjects in his patented clipped delivery over a photo of Tatum taking down a monster. “Just ask Playoff Spida,” Rock says as Cavs shooting guard Donovan “Spida” Mitchell drops his head and denies it's a thing.
Likewise, Rock gets nothing from Knicks guard Jalen Brunson, Bucks guard Damian Lillard, Nuggets center Nikola Jokić and Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards, who denies the existence of the playoffs while doing pull-ups in a ridiculously heavy vest. Lillard Is So Annoyed With Rock's Proposal That It's Time To Finally See 'Playoff John' [Antetokounmpo] play with the Dame of the Playoffs,” which Lillard angrily peeled off the “Playoff” tag that had fallen over his locker.
“No nothing,” Lillard says.
And finally, Rock goes to the man who would know best if it's playoff season: Lil Wayne. “Playoff Tunechi know it's a thing,” the comedian says in a photo of a bespectacled Weezy concentrating really hard on a claw machine game. “It's game time!” Wayne says as he tries, and fails, to grab a plush NBA player from the machine. The camera then pans to a front row shot of some celebrities taking in a playoff game, including chef Guy Fieri and Puerto Rican superstar Anuel AA.
But when Rock says that “even Chuck's jokes in the playoffs are funnier,” NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal quickly shuts him down, sporting a mustache and glasses in a snap of his fellow celebrity and ringer Charles Barclay. “No, it's not,” Shaq says pointedly.
The playoffs, a real thing, continue Friday (April 19) with Chicago vs. Miami at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN and Sacramento vs. New Orleans at 9:30 p.m. ET on TNT, with the first round of the playoffs scheduled to begin. except Saturday (April 20).
Watch the NBA commercial below.
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