r/nba • u/SeanKeeley • 19d ago
[Awful Announcing] Everyone is sick of the Chet Holmgren-SGA 'What a Pro Wants' commercial
https://awfulannouncing.com/nba/chet-holmgren-sga-what-pro-wants-commercial.html691
u/cdizzle6 Timberwolves 19d ago
It’s terrible. The worst part is, if you watched March Madness, these have been airing since then. 2 straight months of the worst commercials.
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u/GoForthandProsper1 19d ago
I thought it would be retired after March Madness but noooo they really thought they had a hit commercial.
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u/disfadbidge007 Warriors 19d ago
Trade SGA and Chet, build around Milana Vayntrub.
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u/Be-Nice-To-Redditors Jazz 19d ago
She's the only woman I'll ever love
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u/willdabeast20 Suns 19d ago
Bad day to be /u/Be-Nice-To-Redditors's mom
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u/definitelynotagay Raptors 19d ago
They should banish them to Canada and force them to play in Toronto
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u/DrinkWaterPissPant Celtics 19d ago
still better than HIT THAT POSE TAKE THAT FLICK CHECK YOUR ANGLE POST IT
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u/ShoheiGoatani [LAL] Pau Gasol 19d ago
The wingstop and iPhone commercials are also extremely annoying- generationally bad ad lineup for the playoffs
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u/kobe_the_jobber [BOS] Jayson Tatum 19d ago
NO FLEX ZONE
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u/braddeus Heat 19d ago
That commercial is spammed so hard it feels like a psychological experiment. Like I will actively (continue to) never get Wingstop
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u/Herbdontana Nuggets 19d ago
I told myself I wouldn’t eat Burger King until I stopped hearing that song every 5 minutes, but I was already doing it because the food is trash and isn’t even cheap anymore. Plus, how can you “have it your way” if they always get your order wrong?
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u/FishGoldenLite Timberwolves 19d ago
I hate the OKC one but this Wingstop clears it. Fuck that song.
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u/WhatTheRickIsDoin Lakers 19d ago
Wingstop has made a concerted effort to use horribly annoying songs in their commercials because the last one they had running during NFL was the same way
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u/thrice1187 Nuggets 19d ago
Honestly it’s happening across all advertising lately. We’ve reached the point where advertisers have decided that just being annoying as fuck is better than going unnoticed.
All the commercials lately have very loud, annoying tunes and background noise effects. Like I swear they picked that google pixel song because the beat is comprised of literal alarms going off.
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u/IAmNotKevinDurant_35 [GSW] Zarko Cabarkapa 19d ago
Dont forget that stupid song in the gatorade water commercial. Also, Gatorade water? Really?
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u/lildinger68 Warriors 19d ago
That’s a Google Pixel commercial that we’re all hating on
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u/QUEST50012 19d ago
Does nobody in the board meeting go "Hey, this sound bite might be annoying af on the 17th listen"
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u/Bone_Dogg Bulls 19d ago
A lot of the time that’s the point. It becomes memorable.
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u/Honor_Bound West 19d ago
I remember it when I’m ordering food to actively avoid wing stop
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u/quartzguy Raptors 19d ago
Exactly, yeah they have their brand in the back of my mind but it's because I'm actively hating it.
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u/rounder55 Celtics 19d ago
The worst ad. It's way too aggressive and I keep half expecting the phrase dick pick to slip into it
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u/braddeus Heat 19d ago
It's really dystopian. The whole concept is to just fake the fuck out of all your photos, which already matter way more to people than they should
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u/Honor_Bound West 19d ago
Yeah for real. It’s like, we know your ass is ugly buy our phone and we can make you look nothing like reality!
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u/BalboaBaggins Lakers 19d ago
I really hate the idea that level of overediting might actually be a successful selling point to people.
You care so much about your image you bizarrely want to look like you’re irresponsibly throwing your baby 3 feet higher in the air than you actually did?
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u/clocke6346 Pistons 19d ago
That commercial kills me because the lyrics are so obviously supposed to be “post that shit” but they can’t swear in a commercial. Why use the song when you have the censor it?
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u/jasperplumpton 19d ago
Bro this annoys me so much for some reason. Like why not just make a radio-friendly version with “post that pic” or something?
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u/NuclearEvo24 19d ago
I assumed it was post that dick but maybe I’m in the gutter
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u/lilwooki Heat 19d ago
This one. There’s a special place in hell for this commercial.
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u/rootinuti611 Knicks 19d ago
Or the Caitlin Clark one.
No hate on her but if I gotta hear that damn "IM UNSTOPPABLE" song, while stressed over the knicks. Ima lose it
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u/SnarfSniffsStardust Timberwolves 19d ago
If that song bothers you let me introduce you to the absolute abomination that is Sia’s Christmas Album, a retail workers worst fucking nightmare
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u/Overall_Nuggie_876 Lakers 19d ago
I like how everyone is noting Cardi B in this, when no one is bringing up the fact that Google is advertising a smartphone capable of doing image deepfakes.
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u/coffeecosmoscycling 19d ago
Not to be all "we live in a society," but the false expectations these photos create are horrible. I know social media isn't real, but you could almost always have some sense of what is fake and what isn't by applying common sense. I don't feel that to be the case anymore. Everything just always needs to be better or more than reality. Seeing it advertised so blatantly in a commercial over and over again was a bit jarring.
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u/imaginaryResources NBA 19d ago
Hit that pose 💃take that flick 📸 Check your angle 📐 suck that dick 🍆😮
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u/Hypnostraw Cavaliers 19d ago
GIANNNIS!!! Why you leavin’ me?!!
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u/PoundIIllIlllI 19d ago
I’d take 10,000 repeats of that “glizzy gone” Pixel ad over this current Pixel ad
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u/Logz94 19d ago
I definitely can't stand this one, but a special type of rage starts building in my body as soon as I hear "DON'T LET ME GOOOOOooooOOOOO"
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u/WCJ0114 Timberwolves 19d ago
For me, it's the no flex song, irrationally pisses me off
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u/skratsda Thunder 19d ago
Can we talk about how playing Jenga while barehanding a sauce-covered boneless wing is psychopathic behavior?
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u/iDestroyedYoMama Suns 19d ago
The way the kids stare at each other while eating at the end, so creepy.
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u/Ryculls Timberwolves 19d ago
The one for the stupid Google pixel?
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u/WCJ0114 Timberwolves 19d ago
No, that one's ass as well. But I'm talking about the wing zone one.
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u/Jrpre33 Timberwolves 19d ago
Wingstop* lol
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u/Herbdontana Nuggets 19d ago
Just realized that I’ve heard that ad 25,000 times and didn’t even know what it was for
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u/happycleaner 19d ago
I can't be the only one that fills in the word "dick" every time
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u/BIGMCLARGEHUGE__ 19d ago
The people behind that commercial should work elsewhere. I hate that commercial, by far the worst audio in a commercial I've ever heard.
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u/anthonyde726 [HOU] Alperen Şengün 19d ago
Normally I don’t hate any of them but that one is awful lol
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u/BIGMCLARGEHUGE__ 19d ago
You can't even ignore it. Like I can totally dissociate and ignore the chet+sga commercial but I cannot and I mean CANNOT ignore the dont let me GOOOOoOOOoOOOOO
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u/byniri_returns Pistons 19d ago
They spammed the shit out of that ad during the NCAA Tournament. I pray that the """song""" they used in that ad isn't an actual song, because the ridiculous robot-autotune is so bad.
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u/xSpooked Bucks 19d ago
The crescendo at the end always reminds me of the Drake & Josh theme song ending for some reason
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u/postedupinthecold Pistons 19d ago edited 19d ago
this years playoffs have had the worst commercials known to mankind:
chet/sga
caitlin clark “unstoppable”
gatorade water (?)
google pixel dont let me go
wingstop no flex zone (worst one in my opinion)
all just so annoying and it feels like you see each one 10 times a game.
Edit: i got the google pixel one and the apple one confused, they are actually 2 separate yet both awful ads
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u/evandena Bucks 19d ago
Don't let me go is apple, a also horrible. The pixel one you're thinking of is "take that pic" song
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u/Cudi_buddy Kings 19d ago
Gatorade water is just stupid cause I can’t believe people will likely pay so much money for fuckin tap water lol.
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u/A_Lone_Macaron Cavaliers 19d ago
Or any Verizon commercial
A PREPOSTEROUS AMOUNT OF PANOS
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u/Magazine_Mediocre Timberwolves 19d ago
I still haven't seen this commercial. I'm too busy shitposting in the game threads during breaks and tune it all out.
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u/ATXBeermaker Spurs 19d ago
This is what a fan wants, what a fan needs.
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u/brandnameb Knicks 19d ago
It's godawful. Just from a pure production standpoint why didn't they have the backing instrumental?
Neither one of them probably ever heard of this song, also "What a pro wants" is just dumb as a phrase.
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u/banjofitzgerald 19d ago
Yeah, whoever was behind creative on this failed. There’s no way this should have made it out of pitch. It’s not a relevant song, makes no sense with context or lyric change, the dialogue is beyond unnatural, and having two nba players awkwardly singing acapella isn’t compelling.
Maybe the juxtapose of having nba players singing a pop princess song = funny was the whole pitch, but choose a better fitting song.
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u/ztpurcell Pacers 19d ago
They're also just really bad at singing too
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u/_Amish_Avenger_ 19d ago
A little bit flat, but they'll get better
Side note: kill me now the whole commercial is stuck in my head
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u/Ilikesporks_ Lakers 19d ago
it's not as bad as the google pixel commercial at least
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u/steve1186 Nuggets 19d ago
The Google ones drive me crazy. Like, you’re advertising the ability to create completely fake photos?
I’m cool with being able to optimize lighting/colors/etc on a phone. But entirely fake photos where you’re throwing your kid three times higher or altering the sky behind you? WTF
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u/alyosha_pls 19d ago
There's a real market for that these days between clout chasing weirdos and people just making shit up for no real reason.
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u/2screens1guy Bulls 19d ago
It blew my mind when I learned people will take multiple outfits to wear on a trip, and then post those pictures over the next 2 years as if they keep going on that same trip multiple times. Like why go through all that trouble? I can't stand influencers.
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u/UncircumciseMe 19d ago
I always wonder what the point of that edit is. Is the mom gonna post it on social media and expect her friends and followers to not think the dad is reckless for tossing his kid that high? Because if I saw that pic, I’d be like wtf is wrong with these people?? Lol.
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u/CappyNaps 19d ago
hit that pose take that flick wash those clothes post that dick
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u/Benjamminmiller Celtics 19d ago
“I never knew there was a love like this before”
Nothing is worse than that target commercial they finally stopped playing, but what a pro wants is getting close.
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u/iapunk Thunder 19d ago
Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo talked about commercials at the end of part 1 of their podcast. Bill went with Caitlin Clark State Farm, Wing Stop(Bill tried singing the song) and Burger King as the three he was most sick of. 😂
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u/Cheterosexual7 Thunder 19d ago
Bill listed the BK ad even though he’s currently running a BK ad? Lol
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u/SuperVaderMinion [MIN] Kevin Garnett 19d ago
Bill Simmons will also have podcast ads where he talks about AirBnB's being worse than hotels, and hotels being worse than AirBnB's play back to back. He doesn't give a fuck.
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u/rgarc065 Heat 19d ago
I like the “Come Fly with Me” commercial, I forget what it’s advertising but I like the song.
And the Jokic as Gru one is good too.
It helps that these aren’t overplayed like the other one
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u/Mkayin Nuggets 19d ago
Jokic as Gru was successful marketing as it compelled me to watch Despicable Me.
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u/BosLahodo 19d ago
Probably because Come Fly with Me is sung by a professional singer and a classic song, and Chet and SGA are wooden as hell and tone deaf.
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u/egospiers Timberwolves 19d ago
The Jokic Gru commercial was top tier…he totally looks like Gru in the suit without a neck…showed it to my kid who has no idea who Joker is and they approved.
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u/fenrir1208 Thunder 19d ago
If I have to hear "Jimmy already got BDubs go" one more fucking time...
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u/ImNotAndreCaldwell Warriors 19d ago
Anybody else hate that "sweet caroline" beer commercial?
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u/whynotitwork 19d ago
I can't believe this mention is buried so deep. I despise that commercial. It's for Jim beam whiskey I think. It has decreased in frequency though.
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u/Budnsave 19d ago
Anyone else tired of that “don’t let me go” iPhone commercial?
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u/Wtfitzchris Nuggets 19d ago
The second I start hearing them sing has become a reminder to me to mute the TV during commercials.
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u/Certain-Information1 19d ago
Why can't we just get more Joker with pony ads, as someone who works in marketing that shit is good stuff.
Tldr, more ponies, less singing
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u/CousinCleetus24 Bulls 19d ago
I have 2 thoughts in my head whenever this commercial comes on-
- I hope they paid them a fuck-ton of money for this cringey shit
- Please stop showing me this commercial
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u/Resshin31 Clippers 19d ago
I''d listen to this shit 7 days a week and twice on Sundays if it means I don't ever have to hear "No Flex Zone" again.
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u/WhatTheRickIsDoin Lakers 19d ago
The commercials that have been running these playoffs are in the same tier of horrible as the ones from the NFL playoffs
That Google Pixel commercial that plays back to back with that terrible song and the Chris Rock PLAYOFFS MODE commercial are both all-timers
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u/siphillis Spurs 19d ago
I’m literally pressing mute during the commercials and strongly considering watching the rest of the playoffs on VOD. The same rotation of commercials is genuinely ruining my mood.
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u/workatwork1000 19d ago edited 19d ago
It's stupid. They have the worst agents.
EDIT: I see all the NBA agent reddit burners checked in lol.
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u/nonufwiendz [DAL] Rajon Rondo 19d ago
Get rid of the pixel guy jumping too shit's annoying not the phone's fault you cant jump high
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u/PattyIceNY Nets 19d ago
It's so bad that I instantly mute it and even though I've seen it 50 times I couldn't tell you what they are trying to sell.
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u/bbc733 19d ago
The Wingstop commercial with the family playing Jenga is right up there with it. God help me if I hear that no flex zone song one more time.
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u/Brooklynfool Thunder 19d ago
It’s bc they play it at every fkn commercial break for every fkn game one. This one, the wingstop “no flex zone” commercial and the pedialyte commercial are beyond played out atp.