ESPYs Presenter Jokes About Kendall Jenner’s NBA ‘Starting Five’
Pat McAfee's "joke" was more a fact than a comedic quip, but Jenner's famously been a good sport about her very tall, basketball-playing exes.
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Kendall Jenner has been romantically linked with Bad Bunny for a good several months now, and the relationship is something of an aberration for Jenner—in that, the Puerto Rican singer isn’t an All-Star NBA player. Jenner’s dating history includes Devin Booker (most recently), Ben Simmons, Blake Griffin, Kyle Kuzma, and Jordan Clarkson, and it’s rumored there are others. These gentlemen, or some permutation of Jenner’s other maybe-NBA exes, are often referred to as the model’s “starting five.” And—in their primes—they were all, and some still are, a formidable group.
Thus, at Wednesday night’s ESPYs to honor athletic achievement, sports analyst Pat McAfee included a nod to Jenner and her elite, very tall squad of former lovers while presenting at the award show in his remarks: “Kendall Jenner’s starting five would win the NBA championship every single year,” he joked. Of course, it’s more so a matter of fact than a comedic quip—Booker’s lethal shooting, Simmons’ defense, and Griffins, in his prime, could probably put away any other team in the playoffs. A good night for Kuzma would also be pure dynamite, and, might I remind you, Clarkson won the skills challenge at this year’s All-Star Weekend.