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Asymptotic (adj., ah-sim-TOT-ick)

Limiting, especially over time. Comes from the math function that starts out big but quickly drops towards the axis, slowly getting closer and closer to zero.

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Zach Lowe - NBA Hall of Fame of Absurdities

There is probably no better sports league to follow in the USA than NBA. There is always something happening, always some weird, funny thing going on. Even now, in the doldrums of the offseason, the NBA Hall of Fame inductions have just happened, the Seattle Storm have just won the WNBA championship, and NBA training camps will start in a couple weeks. To prepare us for all this, NBA writer Zach Lowe made a list of some of the weirder things that have happened around the NBA, if the league's Hall of Fame ever opened a wing dedicated to this. It's a fun read:

This begs for a sculptural recreation of the most absurd moment of the one of the NBA's all-time absurd careers: Smith tossing a bowl of chicken tortilla soup at Jones, a Cavaliers assistant, for reasons that remain unclear. (Cleveland staffers say chicken tortilla is among the most popular and delicious soups offered at the Cavs practice facility, and lamented Smith tossing away a bowl of it.)

For kids, we could even create a Duck Hunt-style video game in which they act as Smith, and whip bowls at enemies who pop out from behind various obstacles. (The game could also allow kids to play as coaches dodging Smith's steaming projectiles.)

The Smith-Jones sculpture would sit in the center of a room devoted to Smith. Other features: a smaller sculpture (hat tip: The Ringer) of LeBron pleading, arms out and mouth agape, as Smith dribbles out the final seconds of regulation in Game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals (and, really, LeBron's Cleveland career) -- the most consequential on-court boner in league history; the PhunkeeDuck hoverboard Smith rode to and from games during the 2015 Finals; one of the shoelaces Smith loosened from unsuspecting victims during free throws until the league fined him $50,000; and other stuff I'm surely forgetting.

Lowe posted the article on Twitter, and people there mentioned a number of terrific items that should be in this kind of museum. Here's a short list:

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