Out Of Bounds

Out of Bounds: Man on the Moon

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Jeff Hawkins
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Jeff Hawkins Sports Editor

Jeff Hawkins is an award-winning sportswriter with more than four decades in the industry (print and digital media). A freelance writer/stay-at-home dad since 2008, Hawkins started his career with newspaper stints in Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Upstate New York and Illinois, where he earned the 2004 APSE first-place award for column writing (under 40,000 circulation). As a beat writer, he covered NASCAR Winston Cup events at NHIS (1999-2003), the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks (2003-06) and the NFL's Carolina Panthers (2011-12). Hawkins penned four youth sports books, including a Michael Jordan biography. Hawkins' main hobbies include mountain bike riding, 5k trail runs at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte, N.C., and live music.

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Updated15 Oct 2021

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The Stupid, Funny Thing of the Day

If you’ve seen “Man on the Moon” starring Jim Carrey playing the famous comedian Andy Kauffman, you truly have to be a fan of San Antonio Spurs’ forward Matt Bonner. Seriously, once he decides to hang up the sneakers or his three-point shot dies overnight, the Red Rocket needs to be a comedian himself. Bonner and the Spurs took part in skits as part of an auction for charity, but he clearly should have got paid for his performance.

Stat Stuffers of the Night

Blazers’ LaMarcus Aldridge: 32 points, 18 rebounds, 4 assists in 108-96 win over the Cavs.

Magic’s Victor Oladipo: 35 points, 8 assists, 4 rebounds, 3 steals, 1 block in 128-125 triple-overtime loss to the Bulls.

Bulls’ Joakim Noah: 26 points, 19 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks in 128-125 triple-overtime win over the Magic.

YouTube of the Night

Everyone’s going to have to keep track of this kid in the coming years…Class of 2016 Hammond School guard Seventh Woods from Columbia, South Carolina has a long ways to go before we can declare him the new LeBron, but wow can he jump! This mixtape doesn’t show off a lot of other needed basketball skills to make it to the NBA, but he can develop those in college right? This kind of freaky athleticism doesn’t belong to most high school athletes, especially a sophomore. It’ll be interesting what becomes of Seventh as develops but we can just sit back and enjoy this for now.

Tweet of the Night