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The best way to say goodbye to work: A one-man mini-hoop dunk contest
It's a Friday afternoon during the summer. You are trying to convince your boss (and perhaps even yourself) that you are doing meaningful work before you clock out for the weekend. Well, stop that.
You and I both know that what you really want to do — what truly lives inside your soul, what you yearn for more than anything else — is to break free of your humdrum workaday lifestyle, cut loose and engulf your pre-happy-hour tedium in the white-hot hellfire of brutal slam dunks, all to the music of the spheres better known as the Quad City DJs' "Space Jam."
This is your best office life, and it is being lived by a hero who goes by the name of "Jake H."
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Now, you might ask yourself: What has so emboldened "Jake H" to unfurl his pure slam-jamming fury on a Fisher Price rim in what appears to be an empty office? Well, details are scarce, but according to the description of his YouTube video, the circumstances included "office layoffs" from a workplace that comprised "just me and that 6' hoop for my final days" in the office.
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While I certainly feel for anyone suffering from the sting of a layoff, I find it hard to envision a more constructive and wonderful way of playing out the string at a job that's giving you the heave-ho than to spend multiple days filming yourself doing monster jams on a mini-hoop. I was particularly taken by Jake's rendition of Gerald Green's famed "Birthday Cake" dunk at the 1:35 mark; even in dark times, it's important to find reasons to celebrate.
Bless you, Jake. Best of luck in your future endeavors, and may we all carry your spirit of positivity, creativity and outside-the-box thinking into our respective weekends.
Hat-tip to Brett Pollakoff at Complex.
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