Monday, February 8, 2016

Shootyhoops Basketmakers: Mo Lucas


Maurice Lucas Is Coming
Uh oh, he's spotted you.
Maurice Lucas will fucking kill you.  He doesn’t care what you did.  He’s waiting for you at your house right now and he’s going to kill you the second you walk in that door.  It will be brutal and unstoppable and you will know pain.
Maybe you aren’t afraid.  Maybe you’ve tangled with Charles Oakley before and came out alright, or you took a clothesline from Kevin McHale and lived through the encounter as well as Tommy Heinsohn insisting that you committed an offensive foul by ruining into McHale’s arm.  Maybe you once drove your car at full speed into Wes Unseld without a seat belt on.
It does not matter what experiences you’ve had or what you’ve lived through.  Maurice Lucas knows exactly where you’ve been.  He knows what you’ve done.  Yes, even that.  It makes no difference.  Maurice Lucas will kill you.  If he wants you dead, you’re dead.  There is no stopping Maurice Lucas.  Even typing his name enrages him.  Maurice Lucas[1].
Oh, so you’ve heard that Maurice Lucas is currently dead, having passed away in 2010?  It is hilarious that you believe this will save you.  First of all, Maurice Lucas is not truly dead.  Death came for him, yes, but that is no obstacle.  Maurice Lucas killed death, creating a crazy paradox loop that he also killed.  Nothing can withstand him.  Second of all, if Maurice Lucas was dead, that would not stop him.  He is the film Final Destination, except if everyone had gotten off that plane at the beginning and it had turned around and ran them over for having the gall to try and get away.
Nothing but death follows Maurice Lucas.  He is all four horsemen wrapped up into one, but still with four horses.  In 218 B.C., Maurice Lucas saw Hannibal cross the Alps, laughed, and killed the Alps.  They are dead now.  Before that date, they were a living, breathing being that would say hello to you and seduce your daughter like any good swarthy Italian.
In 1099, the crusading Catholic forces came upon Jerusalem, only to find it empty.  Maurice Lucas had slaughtered everyone within.  As the crusaders gawked at this angel of death, Maurice Lucas killed them all with a series of elbows and post moves.
In 1862, Maurice Lucas was crossing Burnside’s Bridge near Sharpsburg, Maryland, only to find the armies of the Confederacy and the United States lying in wait on each side of the river.  Lucas was miffed by the fact that neither army had invited him along on their marches and so engaged both.  22,700 casualties were recorded, all of them caused by Lucas.  He spent most of the battle catching bullets in his teeth before melting them with his fire breath and pouring the molten metal down the throats of his enemies.
In 1879, the Zulus foolishly believed they would be able to protect their homeland from British incursion.  They put up a valiant fight but insisted on attacking the British forces encamped at Kambula.  Maurice Lucas was there.  20,000 Zulus attacked.  11 British were killed.  Maurice Lucas won this battle, just as he had won so many beforehand all to satiate his terrible bloodlust.  Side note: he also killed those 11 British soldiers just to see if he could.  He could.
In 1976, Lucas joined the Portland Trailblazers after the ABA’s dissolution.  He immediately averaged 20/11/3.  Lucas was known for his tough rebounding, which involved punching his hand through the chest of anyone that had gotten position on him then pulling the ball back through to him.  No one attempted to box him out again for the rest of his 12-year career.
He is legion.
In 1985, jellybean enthusiast Ronald Reagan hired Maurice Lucas to take care of the Sandinista revolutionaries taking control of Nicaragua.  Lucas killed thousands throughout Nicaragua before growing board of this charade and leaking the details of Reagan’s plan to the press.  Lucas thought it was real funny and removed any mention of him from the scandal, instead leaking his codename “Contra” which he had chosen based on his favorite arcade game.
In 1988, Lucas retired from basketball, having grown tired of how little he was challenged by the opposition.  Lucas had averaged 14 and 9 in his NBA career, including two years over 20 PPG and four years of double-digit rebounds.  Lucas also killed hundreds of people, including the entire population of Saint Louis after misinterpreting their team name as a plea to make them all literal spirits.
In 1994, Lucas’ close friend O.J. Simpson mentioned off-hand how bothered he was by his wife constantly hanging out with a local waiter she had become close friends with.  Lucas took it upon himself to solve the issue by murdering them both.  When Simpson became aware of this, he chastised Lucas for the decision, becoming particularly angry when he learned Lucas had worn the expensive leather gloves that Simpson had bought him for Christmas the year before.  Several hours later, Simpson realized that Lucas would probably retaliate and murder him as well.  Simpson, best known for his role in the Naked Gun franchise and for running real fast, tried to escape to Mexico in his white SUV, knowing that Lucas had a disdain for Mexico and did not wish to visit, even to murder.
Maurice Lucas will fucking kill you.


[1] I’m already dead.

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