Each week at Volume Shooters, we highlight an NBA
player, past or present, who doesn't spend much time in the spotlight
but is nonetheless a valuable cog in his team's quest for the
championship. Obscure players tend to be on obscure teams, but with the
playoffs going on, we tried to pick somebody out from one of the title
contenders. Here's this week's edition:
To quote a friend who I'm 99% sure never reads our blog, now that the Conference Finals have started, the playoffs are really starting to get down to brass tacks. All the
fun teams pretenders have been eliminated, and with them, many of the truly obscure players still making a playoff rotation have been sent home for the summer. Fortunately for our readers, I will stop at nothing to bring a fresh edition of this column every week until the playoffs end (even if I am secretly just trying to take up all the good players so Shane Ryan's
"Who's that Guy" column runs out of material before we do). With my task at hand, I scoured the remaining playoff rosters to find a non-household name who may trend on Twitter before the 2013 season is said and done. This week, I came up with this guy:
Although pictured here in a Dallas uniform, that's current Pacers backup center
Ian (pronounced "Yan") Mahinmi, who somehow managed to get a custom wallpaper image with him ascending from a giant ball of flames. Estimated total downloads: 6 (well, 7 now that we've put it on here). Anyways, here's the lowdown on Ian.
