Under coach-and top-dollar speaker available for your next corporate retreat-Mike Krzyzewski, Duke always seemed to find themselves employing the talents of, for lack of a better word, the most irritating white college basketball players in human history. When Grayson Allen, 6-foot-4 shooting guard out of Jacksonville, Florida (of all places), first stepped onto the court for the Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball team in 2014, he stood in the footprints of giants. Some of us are born with Ted Cruz’s face and it seeps into our souls. But c’mon, he doesn’t deserve the vitriol that stirs in people. In a different world, I could be writing a story about how this is an injustice, that we should give Grayson a chance. This is an article about how people feel about Grayson Allen. But you can feel him knowing that there’s really only one guy he looks like, one guy he can never hide from.Įx-NBA Star Snaps at ESPN Pundit for Sounding Like Fox News He said that people told him he looked like all kinds of disliked people while he was playing for Duke University, including Joffrey Baratheon. In a podcast interview with fellow Duke alumnus JJ Redick, Grayson tried to downplay this. Instead of forging his mind into a machine for irritating the libs (and also everyone else), Grayson merely shaped his body into a basketball shooting machine. Instead of debate club, he concentrated on basketball. ![]() Grayson has, of course, lived a life that is far away from Ted’s. No man could have done anything to keep themselves from looking this much like Ted Cruz-from being forced to carry the weight of that rancid visage and the internal world of slime it has come to represent for everyone who lays eyes on it. The Cruz thing is part of it (the unfair part). It’s the first thing anyone mentions, the unnerving sight of a young, beefy version of arguably the most widely hated politician in America playing basketball on national TV. My editor mentioned Cruz when he replied to my pitch. I spoke to a few people for this article and all of them, even a Canadian, mentioned Ted Cruz immediately. So with Allen and Duke beating Yale on Saturday and advancing to the Sweet 16 - and with nearly a week to go until the Blue Devils suit up again - the question was almost inevitable at some point after the Round of 32 game.He looks like Ted Cruz. Matt Sandbulte MaGrayson Cruz and Ted Allen. The result was tremendous.ĭid a face swap of Duke guard Grayson Allen and presidential candidate Ted Cruz. ![]() ![]() uvg0Z1ZCiHĪnd when I say it has recently peaked, I mean people like Matt Sandbulte (mad props, by the way) are doing digital face swaps of Allen and Cruz. The chatter continued through the 2014-15 campaign and has now peaked during the 2016 NCAA Tournament as Allen, now a sophomore, is leading three-seed Duke in scoring with 21.6 points per game this year.Ĭongratulations you had the first ever "Grayson Allen looks like Ted Cruz" take on 11/18/14. The background: At the start of last season, when Allen was a freshman at Duke, people began noticing he resembled Cruz, now a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. OK, let's put a pin in this Grayson Allen, Ted Cruz thing once and for all.
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