It wasn’t a pretty sight. Tuesday night Gordon Hayward had the game of his life against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He had 37 points, 11 rebounds, and 7 assists in a solid win for the Utah Jazz. Now when I say “it wasn’t a pretty sight”, I’m not referring to the basketball game. No, the carnage was done much later that night when the Jazz decided to take an easy night and relax with a good old fashioned game of Jenga.
According to our reporter Anna Sheeps, the baby-faced shooting guard really wanted to play Jenga back at his house after the game. A few of his teammates were very skeptical, considering that the last time the whole team gathered at Gordon’s house, the night ended with Hayward singing karaoke by himself and eventually trying to convince Enes Kanter to play Guitar Hero 2 with him. Despite past experiences, the Jazz teammates decided to go to Gordon’s house after he promised to make hot pockets and tuna sandwiches for everybody.
The whole team arrived at Hayward’s around 12:30 am. Once inside, Gordon grabbed the Jenga box and put it on his kitchen table. Then he began setting it up, hoping that anybody would challenge him. Luckily, the rookie Trey Burke stepped up to challenge his incredibly pale teammate. Little did Gordon know, Burke was about to dominate the Jenga tower.
Both players took a turn removing a wooden tile from the tower and cleverly placing it back. The tower became less and less stable until Gordon finally pulled the tile that knocked the rest to the ground. At first he laughed it off, acting as if he hadn’t spent four days practicing the perfect tile-pulling strategy. However, all of the practice in the world couldn’t help the poor lad. Gordon would go on to lose ten straight games to Burke. Each loss made Hayward’s Jenga idea seem worse and worse. He was so upset that he turned to drinking heavily for the rest of the night, which for Hayward, is just drinking three bottles of Sunny Delight.
By Danny Dagorn