If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you own an Amazon Echo, the company’s smart speaker that allows you to ask it to play music, turn off your lights, or (because this is Amazon) order things with your voice. You can also request unconventional things like jokes about the NBA Finals. No, really — tell your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, give me a Warriors [or Cavs] burn,” and Alexa will really give it to you:
Amazon Echo has NBA Finals jokes, and they’re actually ruthless
Oh yeah, Alexa has a 3-1 joke for you.
“Why did the Warriors lose the championship last year? Their attitude was too cavalier.”
“Why is Kyrie Irving missing his jumpers? He believes his shot is flat.”
Those are relatively tame compared to what Cork Gaines of Business Insider found when he recorded himself using his Echo:
“What does Tyronn Lue call his boss? LeBron.”
“How do you spell ‘cupcake’ using only two letters? K-D.”
“What did Steph Curry learn in grade school? If at first you don’t succeed, stack your team, and try, try again.”
“What do you call the Cleveland Cavaliers without LeBron? Irrelevant.”
“A doctor offered the Warriors a miracle drug that would make them 3’1 inches taller, but they declined. They have a bad history when they’re up 3-1.”
You’d think the words “Amazon Echo” and “NBA Finals roasts” would mean Amazon wrote dad jokes about the NBA Finals. Sure, some of them could be considered dad jokes, but the Tyronn Lue and “Cavs without LeBron” jokes are pretty merciless. This is not the first time Amazon Echo roasted the sports world -- if you had an Echo in time for Super Bowl LI, you could have asked Alexa for Patriots and Falcons burns, such as:
“What’s the difference between me and the Falcons? I have a ring.”
Hopefully, Amazon doesn’t stop roasting sports teams for future championship games, because these are all really good.
