After facing off in the 1998 NBA Finals, basketball legends Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone met up in a different field of play: a wrestling ring, joined by (actual) wrestlers Hulk Hogan and Diamond Dallas Page in a doubles match with the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion. You could find some grainy archival footage of this -- it isn’t the most impressive wrestling you’ll ever see, but that isn’t the point, because the point is that Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone are wrestling. Amazing.
During All-Star Weekend, the question was posed to the Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson: which basketball players in the NBA today had the stuff to compete in the WWE?
His teammate Draymond Green was one of the first to come to mind, and of course, because Draymond is one of the most vocal players in the league, if not outright arrogant. He would be perfect for the WWE -- and he comes prepared, finisher and all.
Thompson also named DeMarcus Cousins and Joel Embiid of the New Orleans Pelicans and Philadelphia 76ers as other players that he could see as wrestlers. Both are big boys with attitudes. I’m here for it.
Surprisingly, the teammate that Thompson named as the biggest WWE fan on the team was Steph Curry. This seems unlikely, and wrong. Zaza Pachulia is still on the Warriors, right?
Also, it turns out Klay Thompson’s father has a lot of WWE takes, and they’re a trip.
(h/t UPROXX)
