Star Wars Day: NBA stars and their Star Wars counterparts

NBA stars and their Star Wars counterparts: Kyrie Irving = Yoda

When he opens his mouth to talk, what he says sounds wise. He’s using words and even phrases that sound like deep, thoughtful, philosophical musings. Yet when he finishes talking, you can’t decide if you agree with him, because you aren’t really sure what he just said.

Such is life when Kyrie Irving is given a microphone. Whether he is speaking to social issues or the shape of the planet, Irving struggles to form coherent sentences with consistent logic. He might hold significant wisdom, but those of us listening walk away unsure.

The Jedi Grand Master Yoda is similarly hard to understand, although not because of bizarre logic. Instead, he speaks with grammar different than ours, resulting in scrambled sentence structure. Seeing the similarities yet, are you?

They become even more vivid when we look to the basketball court. Kyrie Irving is a wizard with the ball in his hands, and the way that he keeps the ball on a string when dribbling and can finish off the glass at any angle certainly suggests the use of a mystic force connecting all things. Yoda is a smaller person who used his connection to the Force to make an outsized impact; Irving is small for a basketball player but uses his abilities for wondrous results.

All apologies to Vince Carter, who apparently is legitimately nicknamed “Yoda”.