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Former NBA player Chase Budinger just qualified for the Paris Olympic Games as a member of one of the USA’s beach volleyball teams



Former NBA player Chase Budinger just qualified for the Paris Olympic Games as a member of one of the USA’s beach volleyball teams

by IDidntTakeYourPants

26 Comments

  1. Led his high school to three CA state championships per his wiki entry and was named Volleyball mag’s national player of the year as a senior per the article. He legit might’ve been a better volleyball player than basketball player coming out of high school and picked the sport that would pay more.

  2. travers101

    Him dragging his balls over diddys face will forever be funny to me.

  3. Delicious_Series3869

    Basketball players proving they can do well in other sports this year, you gotta love it.

  4. gdogsamurai

    Chase Budinger is the Lawful Good version of Chandler Parsons.

  5. CoyotesSideEyes

    I don’t know how he looks in a cheeky bikini, but I’m willing to find out

  6. shady2495

    I totally forgot about this dude. I remember him from the dunk contest. I’ll be rooting for him this olympics

  7. airemy_lin

    I will never forget C-Bud because Matt Bullard would spam “Hey Bud, let’s party!” like three times a game every game.

  8. mobileqb18

    He lives in st Pete. He’s a nice guy always at the dog park by the water.

  9. DunamisBlack

    Dude was good back when he was at U of A but I swear I saw him on the sand volleyball courts more than I saw him in the rec

  10. my favorite random sports jersey is my signed (fake) Chase Budinger jersey. Got his signature at AVP Chicago a couple years back.

  11. CrissCrossAppleSos

    I remember when I went away for college, being at the gym when the guys volleyball team were fucking around before practice and they were all shooting deep 3’s with the volleyballs, and at that moment I realized that highish end volleyball players were just really good basketball players who weren’t quite good enough to make the basketball team

  12. Played both sports growing up, liked both. Makes perfect sense, I think it uses very similar muscle groups.

  13. OptimisticTurtle

    Went to High School with his doubles partner, Miles, so have been following their journey the past few years. Crazy to see they finally made it on r/nba before i pulled up Facebook!

    Congrats to these two, rooting for you!

  14. The video in the article with Snoop is actually hilarious 😂

  15. TraySplash21

    Volleyball is honestly my 2nd favorite sport to play. I feel there are a lot of similarities in the skillset, from hoops to volleyball. Never really watch pro volleyball but I’m always down to play

  16. CJ4ROCKET

    There are 30 guys in the NBA that could qualify for a Paris Olympics USA volleyball team.

    -Austin Rivers probably

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