Actor Ken Jeong's half-court shots at Nuggets-Heat game were hilariously bad

Ken Jeong, despite his academic ties to both Duke and North Carolina, isn’t really good at basketball. He showed the universe as much with his laughable half-court shot attempts during halftime of Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday in Denver between the Nuggets and Miami Heat.

Expectations weren’t high for Jeong, but his shot put-meets-chest pass shooting style didn’t pass muster. As a matter of fact, he didn’t even come close to the rim.

The actor likely won’t be starring in any basketball films any time soon — at least not serious ones.

Oh no, Ken Jeong 😂

(via @TomerAzarly) pic.twitter.com/lJ8gauXwUg

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 2, 2023

To add certain insult to the injury of whiffing on half-court shots, the Nuggets mascot showed Jeong up shortly thereafter, burying a shot from the midcourt stripe while facing the wrong direction.

The Nuggets mascot really showed Ken Jeong how it's done. 😂 pic.twitter.com/P4MyY32MJY

— theScore (@theScore) June 2, 2023

Jeong earned his undergraduate degree from Duke in 1990, enrolling in medical school at North Carolina while the Blue Devils went on to win back-to-back national titles while Jeong was learning medicine as a Tar Heel.

The other school Jeong nominally attended? UCLA, where he took some acting classes after graduating from medical school at UNC.

Yet no amount of proximity to these blue blood programs or the legacies and abilities of Mike Krzyzewski, John Wooden and Dean Smith managed to rub off on Jeong.

He’ll just have to settle for being a Hollywood star, courtside seats at the Finals, and getting poked fun at for his poor, poor shooting form.

Once the Nuggets-Heat Finals conclude, the NBA plans to issue more punishment for Ja Morant

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says an announcement regarding Ja Morant’s punishment for flashing a gun on IG Live will come after the NBA Finals, according to ESPN’s Tim McMahon.

Silver revealed the latest on the situation ahead of game one of the NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat.

“We’ve uncovered a fair amount of additional information. We probably could have brought it to a head now, but we’ve made the decision that it would be unfair to these players and these teams to announce that decision in the middle of this series,” Silver said, via McMahon.

During the incident last month, Morant was recorded in the passenger seat of a friend’s car listening to NBA YoungBoy when the camera panned on Morant for a split second. That was enough time to make out the outline of a gun. The video was originally posted by @_dtap2 on Instagram.