Payton Pritchard pulled up to a local court and surprised some young hoopers
“You don’t think I’m going to make this?” - PP
“I do but it’s our only hope” - kid
lol
Bro… you can’t just call a grown man PP. I don’t care what his initials are.
It’s actually FAST PP
Prodigious PP
Powerful PP
Swaggy PP
You ever see PP dribble?
Yes around kids!
PP from long range
PP balls hard, though.
he should get that looked at
Shut up
someone isnt down with o.p.p
yeah you know me
That’s why I only ever called Paul Pierce “PeePee PooPoo” out of respect and recognition for the grown man that shit himself
People just using initials is one of my pet peeves for this sub. At least there is context here, but the other day someone referred to Deandre Ayton as DA on a top comment and I had to read the replies to know who they meant
That one gave me whiplash. I was thinking “Dreg Anthony has nothing to do with this”
Agreed like 99% of the time, but PP has been widely used as his nickname since college. (Or Fast PP, specifically)
GOD DAMMIT DUTCH!
Shout out PPMD tho
Pierre Poilievre excluded
Excluded from carlton, sure.
Excluded from Parliament soon 🤞🤞
So you’ve never heard of the legendary Kevin Nanney aka Dr. Peepee aka PPMD?
I tried that strategy against Kevin Gamble one-on-one at a summer camp at Iowa when he was playing at Boston….it didn’t work for me, either.
presti sign that kid
Our great white…
White PP is my favorite duo in the nba right now. 100% real. Love seeing the strokes when the White PP is wet from deep. Must see tv.
Congrats to all the r/NBA users that got to meet him!
This kids looked like they probably play a bit though. No self respecting r/nba user would actually step onto a court.
“I used to play like Joel Embiid”
So, never?
Yeah they knew what a zone is so clearly not one of us.
I cackled more at this
I literally don’t even know what a “basketball” is, I’m just here for the melodrama. Really gets me going.
when’s the next grand nephew meetup
Lol
“It’s literally Payton Pritchard”
Fake ass staged/prepared video.
You know those kids won.
They all just happen to have Boston Celtics gear on
PP been trolling around playgrounds of Boston suburbs for days until he found one with enough kids wearing Celtics gear.
Uhhhhhh….. phrasing?
Spotlight 2: The Boston Celtics unleash their big PP at local playgrounds
He’s a little under-sized by NBA standards tbh
Hes bigger in real life.
Also its a bit cold at TD Garden so he isnt as big there
It’s all angles and lighting, bro.
Trust me.
Typical /r/NBA response to credible PP allegations. I guess it’s not a problem when the PP isn’t that big?
If it’s small it’s easier to sweep under the rug tuck into the waistband and pretend it’s not there.
*small white PP
I think this is a more ‘professional’, organised version of the video his wife filmed and posted over summer where they were on a walk and Pritch saw a kid just hooping on a front yard rim and he ran over and started playing him 1 on 1 and torching him.
I appreciate the context. It’s hilarious thinking about Cadillac seeing that and saying “fuck it, let’s run it back!”
he ran over and started playing him 1 on 1 and torching him.
This is also a fair description of his games against us this season.
It makes sense for kids in the greater Boston area to be wearing Boston stuff for sure I see it all the time and I live in NH, or maybe that’s your point?
yeah man kids in Boston who like basketball having Celtics gear is just unbelievable
Ok kids, take #147 of “If I make this half court shot”
Kid said he was at the finals game lol spoiled ass kids continue to get spoiled
You don’t even know what it’s like to watch your team on TV in the finals bro
“why’d he say fuck me for?”
Just like when that kid dunked on Bron, this video will soon disappear.
That is ass is real. Trust me.
Witawilly Wayton Witchawd
I love watching NBA players dicing up kids. That block was 10⁄10
As a teenager he used to pull up to the park and just destroy grown men. Like he would regularly do this lol
We had a girl show up to our mixed doubles tennis league one night, think she was 16 at the time, maybe 110 lbs max. Figured I’d take it easy on her, rolled in a meatball serve, was rewarded with maybe the hardest backhand return I’ve ever seen right at my poor partner.
She’s now top 30 in the world. Must be fun to just crush amateur adults as a kid.
Why can’t you tell us who it isn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Joint
I feel weird about it sometimes but she literally has a Wikipedia article to link lmao
Is the one with the hair, you know, good serve, that one
The one who screams after every hit?
She’s actually silent too. Proves the whole grunt things a farce.
Yeah. And when the ball kids throw her a ball she loves to bounce it once or twice to check it out. You know the one I mean
this is for you then!
He seems only slightly taller than them…
He’s a regular height guy
Find a new slant
Which makes his NBA career all the more impressive. Dudes 6’1” and under in the NBA have to be CRAZY skilled to be successful. The ones like AI and IT are/were some of the most skilled guys to ever play. I think it’s also why a guy like Gobert gets no respect. Most of his success in the NBA comes from the fact that he’s tall and long, but he’s absolutely not a “skilled” basketball player. A 6’10 Gobert is probably not in the NBA.
He’s 6’1? He looks 5’7 compared to those shrimps
he’s 6 foot
Rounded up probably
I didn’t look up his actual height, that was just a guess, but I would be shocked if he was any taller than 6’1”
There are a lot of tall and long players in the NBA. Why don’t they just play like Gobert to get a 250milly bag?
Are they stupid?
Right? That’s what I thought. These are kids and he doesn’t look huge, ha.
Usually nba player make 6ft dudes look tiny, and 10 year olds make him look normal sized
“It’s Literally Payton Pritchard”
They set black shirt up “shoot it” gets blocked
Black shirt with a nice stop on Pritchard’s first possession, though.
Literally looks like he’s playing against the Raptors here
Yo the raptors are a really really good team
Pritchard ALWAYS cooks us.
Since he was a rookie too I don’t know what he has against you guys
Pritchard looks like he Freaky Friday’d with Allen Iverson whenever he plays us
Respect from a philly fan damn, that’s crazy
lol at making them do push ups
Respect to the one kid that dropped right after he made the shot haha
When I was a kid I would have called out that he was in front of the half court line
For everyone saying it’s “staged” or “fake” you’re not entirely wrong, but you’re not right in the way you think you are.
These kids definitely knew they were being recorded (first give away: they’re children in sponsored content. The sponsor needed parental rights. Second giveaway:it sounds like they’re mic’ed or at the very least there’s a parabolic mic pointed at them). But they were probably given false pretenses about what they were being recorded for. Probably something along the lines of, “We’re doing a commercial/sponsorship thing with the Celtics and we want to see real fans playing basketball.” As far as the Celtics gear they’re wearing, I wouldn’t be surprised if production asked them to wear their favorite C’s gear or if they provided it as part of the compensation for appearing on camera. Looking at the kids’ reactions, they might have been prepped that someone famous might show up, but it seems obvious they had no idea it would be Pritchard. As for faking the play and the interactions, it looks like they just let Pritchard shoot around with the kids for a while and a producer probably gave them ideas from off-camera (Why don’t you guys play one-on-one? What if you formed a circle around him, could you stop him then? Make sure you guys pass the ball around to make it harder for him to guard you.). Then they cut that thirty minutes down to the best minute and a half.
Source: I work in TV and have done my fair share of “hidden camera” and “surprise reveals.”
This guy TVs
Man you really know PP TV
Needless to say he has filmed and watched his fair share of PP content
The coaches kids. No way that’s random
It’s definitely a staged event but he did this for real once https://www.tiktok.com/@bleacherreport/video/7430844033510985002
lol i like how he’s using the same moves he’d use on NBA players– the push offs, body physicality to create space, he was just going through his normal practice in a little slower motion with him
By far my favorite part is when he could just go up and make a shot, but he fakes and gets his body on the kid before shooting lol
Pritchard probably has completely more reps of various basketball motions than any other current player in the league before getting drafted. There’s no way to actually measure it but the dude is just kind of a psycho when it comes to training, at least leading up to the nba. All of that practice becomes muscle memory.
The garage dribble drill videos are nuts
The fingertip dribbling practice is crazy. And he would supposedly do the practice drills for hours every day along with workouts and shooting practice etc
Feels like the Steve Nash path to playing in the NBA. If you don’t get a lucky step up by being born with a tall athletic body, you’re going to have to become obsessed and borderline psychotic with your work ethic. (and even then its not guaranteed you’ll make it to the league)
Yeah there’s a 95% chance he ends up like a 1:1 trainer for dudes to improve their handle, and occasionally someone who either loves college ball or is from the pnw sees a clip of him working with their favorite player and starts in on one of those “you don’t know how big a problem this guy was back in the day” rants
This is the court I hoop at, right by his old apartment in Boston.
the bad acting and the kids decked out in celtics gear 🥲🤮
Those are Mazzulla’s little four white boys lol
Brought to you by Cadillac!
Its just an ad disguised as cute content.
they might not have known he was coming, but yea - you can’t put kids in a marketing video without the parents signing a release.
That Payton Pritchard handles training video still amazes me to this day. I feel like every up and coming basketball prospect has seen that and was like “yep this what I gotta do to get into the NBA”
He got (accidentally) head butted in the face the other day and kept his dribble
Some of those power dribbles are insane
That little psycho has been drilling that shit since elementary school he’d wake up early before school and do it in his garage
The one where he is dribbling at like 90 dpm in the loudest garage of all time?
Yep his only youtube upload. It’s loud because he puts the power of atomic nukes into every single drinble
someone said he looked like spiderman testing out his speed right after getting his superpowers.
Mofos be rolling up to the nicest courts in the best neighborhoods
you want him to go to the hood?
I want Uncle Drew-style incognito NBA players clowning on adults. Payton Pritchard would be perfect for it. Not too tall, not too well-known, white.
Exactly he would be perfect.
Not pulling up to Beacon hill park with billy and all his friends in Celtics gear lmao
Put some fake facial hair or a wig on him and literally not even anyone in the Celtics org would recognize him. Dude has looked identical since he was like 9. Look it up lol.
he wouldn’t even need to go incognito lol as long as it wasn’t filmed in Boston. Just being a short white guy would be disguise enough.
Pulled to the court in the burbs 💯
I was noticing, look at that court.. Man them white kids got it nice!
Yeah, double rims, but it’s a breakaway so pretty great for outdoor.
Which one is Pritchard? /s
come to the hood
What getting dunked on does to a man
These kids are too soft, they never had a chance to get the ball. Gotta arm bar him with all your might down on his hip wit your left hand and scratch him bloody with your fingernails with your right hand and then swat him in the head when he goes to shoot but then throw your arms straight up and act shocked when the ref blows the whistle
Damn he kicked those kids asses
Kid just said You just got backshotted and got a laugh out of PP 💀
This is just Pritchard vs. Raptors 😥
Came to comment this lmao. He cooks us everytime. Him and Derrick White, and then White will proceed to shoot 4⁄17 against other teams but never miss when he plays us 😭
When I do this it is “creepy” and I get told to “leave before we call the police”
Pritchard grew up in West Linn, OR. One of the most vanilla cities in the US, why the hell does he have an accent?
He’s been in Boston too long.
As a Raptors fan Im getting PTSD from watching this clip.
“time to do some pushups bitchez”
Pritchard just wasted some valuable cosmic karma / genie magic towards helping the C’s go all way only to make some kids exercise.
“Yo, what happens if I make this?”
“You’ll win the chip!”
“Nah, you little shits are doing push-ups”
‘swish’
I like how he is seemly not much taller than these kids
If Payton is teaching them they’re guaranteed to cook the Raptors asses one day
I think there is other candid footage of him just balling with random kids at another outdoor court. He seems very cool.
This seems only slightly staged
Nice ethical basketball
Pritchard giving hope to every under 6 foot white kid in America
Fake and gay
No cameras there you know Pritchard would have sliced and diced them.
Pure hooper dawg in him.
All these kids just happen to be wearing Celtics merch
Those kids were mic’d up before he arrived lol
Do people know who Peyton Pritchard is if he walked across the street
Payton Pritchard is closer to Brian Scalabrine than I am to him
This may be hard for some folks to hear, but he is closer to LeBron in skill than they are to him.
As a raptors fan, i will have to admit this guy is our daddy…
This is how this mofo sees the Raptors
Pritchard look at the court and said “shit get to play against some dudes my size for once”
I just like that those kids can say this happened for them nice little core memory
Top 5 handles. Roasted those nerds
Would have made my entire life as a kid. For me at their age, it would have been like Reggie Miller or something.
“Mom can you come pick us up there’s some weirdo here with a videocamera that just started filming us”
One of these kids will be Presti’s next superstar !remindme 15 years
My daughter went to his bball camp up in NH this year. He did take some time to do drills with each group of kids. He was a good dude if you paid the right price your kid got to go one on one with him. I will say he was ruthless lol. You see in this clip where he gives the kids a small shove to create space he was all about it at that camp lol.
Even against kids, he carries the ball lol
Yeah this doesn’t seem staged at all
So we just postings ads on the sub now?
He then proceeded to bodyslam those kids, lol
Even a NBA player hates double rims lol… Why does it even exist?!
My man! 👏🏼
Reported for smurfing /j
Finally found some competition at his height
Those kids are sneakily athletic
Pritchard showing up to surprise local hoopers is the kind of thing that actually matters. Dude’s averaging career highs this season and still takes time to connect with fans at random courts. That’s how you build real community support.
“Sowwy Misturw.”
I thought we weren’t doing DEI anymore.
Well I guess we win the chip then. Aight.
If you want to see him play 3x3. This was 5 years ago:
https://youtu.be/fhvz-bkucTI?si=r_RsBE5MFI-Y7ZA_
PJ Washington is also there
Serious question - don’t NBA players have clauses in their contracts about playing pickup with randoms?
Granted his risk of injury is pretty low here. :-)
this is pretty clearly paid promotion lol
Didn’t even bounce it off the kid’s face. Soft! (2) The time when Joel Embiid played pickup and windmill dunked on a random guy at the park 😂 - YouTube
Huge fun for the kids - maybe they’ll put in the extra work after playing with Pritchard - Great Fun and Excitement for the shorties!
Which one is he?
Can the world unite on hating double rims? Ruining courts across the country with those. I get it’s supposed to a dunk deterrent, but it’s not worth it.
Finally plays against people his size
Come to a court in the hood Payton. Are you scared?
Is this what regular NBA players feel like when Wemby starts guarding them?
Where did Pritchard pull up? Beacon Hill or Brookline?
“Can I hop in and play”?😂😂😂 yo Payton is tilts the line of awkward as hell but still cool 😂😂
me if i was in the nba
I hate the Celtics but this is dope
No way he’s 6’1
Is it me or does Payton Pritchard look tiny? Those are kids and he’s barely taller than them. Or those could be giant kids. Lol
Good guy PP.
*Insert Peyton Manning football gif*
You gotta pull up to the hood not some rich zip code