I jokingly suggest that one of the reasons that the LA Lakers are in a dogfight against the upstart OKC Thunder in the 1st Round of the Western Conference Playoffs, might be because they are without Kobe Bryant’s primary back-up at the shooting guard position, Sasha Vujacic. The 5th year international sharpshooter has been absent from all of the guerilla warfare his teammates are encountering against a young Thunder squad who are giving the defending champs all they can handle in an attempt to make it out of the first round.
Vujacic has been away from the team, still nursing a severely sprained ankle he injured in the club’s regular season finale against the LA Clippers, leaving the Lakers dependent on the dunkmaster general, Shannon Brown as the Black Mamba’s lone back-up. Hailing from his native Yugoslavia, Sasha has garnered quite a bit of notoriety, not for his on-court production of 2.8 ppg, but more for his stunningly good looks and flowing black hair, which drives the ladies crazy at home games at the Staples Center.
Vujacic has become such a fan favorite that one of the Lakers’ largest fan sites, Lakers-fans.com pieced together quite the hilarious parody of the former 1st round pick, which serves as a sort of the Lakers’ 2010 NBA Playoffs anthem and features cheesy music with a catchy hook of “Slamma , Jamma, Bing, Bong“, lovely ladies fawning over Sasha, and Kobe Bryant giving Vujacic his nickname of “The Machine.” It’s definitely funny stuff, but suffers from a bit of bad timing since Vujacic got hurt right as the video came out.
Check out Sasha Vujacic as “The Machine”:
Allen Moll is an avid NBA and College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Allen is a regular columnist for thehoopdoctors.com, Bleacherreport.com, UpperDeckblog.com, and his own site, Hoops Haven.
