🎯 Pun
What do you call a basketball player who misses every shot?
A brick layer!
Why This Joke Works
"Brick" is real basketball slang for a shot that hits the rim or backboard awkwardly and doesn't go in — someone who keeps throwing bricks is, taxonomically, a bricklayer. The joke promotes a construction job title based entirely on someone's shooting deficiency.
🎤 How to Tell This Joke
Deliver it sympathetically, like you're trying to find the bright side of a player's career pivot.
Perfect for:
- •Watching a cold-shooting player brick three-pointers in the fourth quarter
- •Pickup basketball when someone's having a rough offensive night
- •NBA postgame analysis when a player had a particularly rough shooting night
💡 Did You Know?
Sports humor is universal — researchers found that sports jokes are understood across cultures more easily than any other category of humor.
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