Wonderlic
The NFL is famous for it, but the NBA also has their version of the Wonderlic test. Test your basketball I.Q.!
1) Assume you're Kobe Bryant and you cheat on your wife with three women. It will take $1,000 a month for 3 years to shut each one up. How much do you owe?
2) Pick the word that does not fit:
a) Weed
b) Dope
c) Coke
d) Chronic
3) A plastic beer cup is thrown at you while you're lying down on the scorers table. You go into the stands and create mass hysteria, resulting in a brawl. The NBA decides to suspend you for 1/4 of the season because you're an idiot. If there are 82 games in a season, how many games will you miss? (please round up)
4) If you're Shawn Kemp and have 8 babies with 7 different women, how many women have multiple children with you?
5) Choose the NBA referee who is least likely to cheat you out of a win:
a) Dick Bavetta
b) Tim Donaghy
c) Joey Crawford
d) no possible answer exists
6) Peanut butter is to jelly as flopping is to:
a) Dwayne Wade
b) Manu Ginobili
c) Anderson "Sideshow Bob" Varejao
d) all of the above
7) You are smoking weed with Cliff Robinson. You reach the end of the joint and . . .
a) Smoke the rest and screw Cliff
b) Put it out and save it for later
c) Pass it back because Cliff may shoot you
8) You are LeBron James and your dinner bill is $800. You tip . . .
a) 25%
b) 20%
c) Nothing. You're LeBron James.
Answer Key: 1) $108,000 2) C 3) 21 4) 1 5) D 6) D 7) C 8) C
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Mike Ricordati
Mike Ricordati has been with The Fan since 2003. In addition to hosting The Midday Show, he calms down angry drunks as the host of the Ohio State Football post-game show. In his 13 years of broadcasting, The Common Man has appeared on ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPNEWS and ESPN Radio. He's also the co-owner of Milestone Media, a film production company based in Columbus. Born and raised in Chicago, Mike is a die-hard White Sox and Bears fan. He spends his spare time watching The Food Network, hating people and spending time with his wife, Kristen.
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Torgy has been with The Fan since the spring of 2007. Over the past 15 years he has worked in Minneapolis, Miami and Phoenix. Never afraid to say what's on his mind Torgy is a huge pun-intended Cubs and Vikings fan. Torgy lives in a undisclosed location with his wife Lauren and son Scotty.