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The best basketball commercials

Here we go. A look at the five best basketball commercials. From hilarious basketball commercials to just plain sweet.

5. Steve Nash with Vitamin Water – This funny basketball commercial didn’t get much airplay, but it’s a lot of fun. Reminds me of Zoolander. So if you like that kind of humor, you have to watch this. Basically, it’s Steve Nash saying all these outrageous things about himself while he’s doing a model shoot and putting on makeup.

Four. Be Like Mike (Gatorade) Original: The one that started it all, guys. “Like Mike, he wishes he could be like Mike.” How has that remained even today. How could it not be a top commercial if even years later people are still saying “I wish I could be like Mike”.

3. Nike Freestyle: This Nike commercial is exactly what it says it is. Free style. It has a lot of people doing sick moves with the basketball. It’s put together at an absolutely sweet pace and makes you want to go out there and learn and do the moves that the people in the commercial are doing.

two. Let your game do the talking: once again, a Nike commercial. I’m not a fan of Nike, but their commercials are good. This Nike commercial features a bunch of kids doing Michael Jordan moves. They then go on to do some of their most notable dunks. He ends up with them having the same game winners as him. It’s basically a bunch of kids in a real Michael Jordan highlight set to sweet music. Simply amazing.

one. Kobe and Lebron Puppets: These commercials were absolutely amazing. For once, it was like the Superbowl watching the NBA playoffs because I couldn’t wait until another one of these commercials came on. There was a “playoffs” commercial where Lebron is totally stoned and running around doing his chalk ritual and Kobe is like “I was there, I did that.” Then there’s the “babysitting” commercial where they have to babysit this annoying little boy. The good part comes when the boy is shown to his shoe room and he shuts up and takes the inhaler from him. There’s the “rings” commercial in which Kobe tells Lebron how many rings he has and the “car jump” commercial in which Kobe’s puppet does Kobe’s original (fake) car jump. This is absolutely great.