
Photo via pax Delgado on Flickr.
If you read this site, you probably have a Twitter account. And if you have a Twitter account, you probably follow Kanye West, or at least follow someone who’s retweeted one of his tweets. And whatever it was he did last night, it reminded us of his Twitter’s status as appointment television. What started out as a reminiscence on his childhood and fledgeling fashion-design career took a turn for the incredible when Yeezy invited us to share in his dream for the future:
Kanye is friends with plenty of NBA players. He’s got to be reaching out to at least some of them for this…thing. Especially since “wealthy” was one of the desired qualities he outlined in his Twitter manifesto. But whom in the NBA player pool will Yeezy turn to? Let’s dive in.
So he’s looking for a social media expert? He’s got plenty to choose from. A ton of NBA players are on Twitter, and lots of them (notably Anthony Tolliver, Jamal Crawford, Jared Dudley, Nazr Mohammad, and let us now pour one out for Kendrick Perkins’ short-lived but glorious foray into tweeting) are funny and engaging. But there’s one guy who jumps out as a perfect fit for Kanye’s espoused philosophy:
Yeah, how could he pick anybody but Tony Allen?
It’s well documented that Lakers center Andrew Bynum loves taking apart cars, phones, and computers. He’s also been absolutely destroying the league this season since returning from a five-game suspension, so you could pick worse people to have on your side when planning world domination. Under normal circumstances, questions of his maturity would threaten his hireability, but Kanye West of all people not hiring Andrew Bynum because of the J.J. Barea incident would be almost as ironic as Syd Barrett being kicked out of Pink Floyd for having too big a drug problem.

Photo via Kanye West's brain.
If he wants to make the stage design you see above a reality, Bynum might be his man.
Kanye wholeheartedly endorses the super-team era of the NBA. The Knicks and Clippers have the same idea, and maybe Mikhail Prokhorov will make David Stern disappear until Dwight Howard is in Brooklyn. If that happens, Kanye will probably throw his buddy Jay-Z a bone and hire the Nets to embody his collaborative ideal. But until then, the clear choice here is the trio in Miami.
You always want German engineering at your service when planning a worldwide project the magnitude of whatever the hell Kanye’s on about (I’ve re-read his entire timeline from last night more times than is probably healthy, and I still have no idea what DONDA will actually, like, do). That, and Dirk Nowitzki’s fadeaway is one of the most simple, effective, and aesthetically beautiful creations in the history of organized sports. You couldn’t ask for a more quintessentially DONDA idea.
Never change, Kanye.


