• almost1337@lemm.ee
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    22 hours ago

    I thought the plot of the movie was they didn’t have enough for a full team, except this one weird loophole allows a dog to play.

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      21 hours ago

      From Wikipedia, he was just a mascot until:

      The Timberwolves struggle in the championship game and an injury leaves them with four players. Buddy shows up to the crowd’s cheers. After it is discovered that there is no rule preventing a dog from playing basketball, he is added to the roster and…

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      leads the team to victory.

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      19 hours ago

      Ok but it’s not the NBA, you can easily just grab a kid and put a jersey on him lol