Ted Cruz outlasts Jimmy Kimmel in grueling Blobfish Basketball Classic

[TexasTowelie]

By Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune

HOUSTON — It took nearly two hours, dozens of air balls and rim shots, a few rounds of political trash talk, and one desperately needed reduction in the score required to win — but they did it.

Ted Cruz and Jimmy Kimmel completed their much-hyped one-on-one basketball game Saturday evening before thousands at Texas Southern University — and the Texas senator came out on top, defeating the late-night TV host 11-9. It was a grueling, slow-moving affair that finally ended with Cruz, who kept a small lead for most of the game, sinking a jump shot from the wing.

“You’re a good sport,” Kimmel told Cruz in defeat. “I still think you’re a terrible senator.”

The game, which will air Monday night on Kimmel’s show, was deemed the Blobfish Basketball Classic, named after the creature Kimmel compared Cruz to last month after Cruz tweeted a picture of himself at the Houston Rockets’ Game 7 against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA's Western Conference finals. The Rockets lost, Kimmel laid on the ridicule and Cruz challenged him to the game to stick up for his hometown team.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/16/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel-grueling-blobfish-basketball-classic/

[mr_lebowski]

1. TWO HOURS TO GET TO 11-9 are you friggin' KIDDING ME? Jimmy, how you gonna go out and LOSE? (nt)

[TexasTowelie]

2. You have to remember

that Cruz played basketball while he was in high school; meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel played the clarinet.

[OnDoutside]

3. Hahaha, very good !