Daily Shorts: Steven Adams' silly handshake

Steven Adams shakes hand with Nick Collison. Photo / Youtube.

From silly handshakes to terrible referees, Daily Shorts takes a look at the lighter side of sport.

There are plenty of NBA players who engage in elaborate handshake rituals before their games begin, and it even got to the point where the league put a rule in place to limit just how long these things could go on.

But as the Thunder's Steven Adams and Nick Collison recently proved, sometimes, less is more.

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Man runs onto court, shoves basketball player, gets clotheslined

During a basketball game between Montenegro club Buducnost and Turkey club Banvit, a 'fan' ran onto the court, and shoved a Banvit player after a free throw attempt.

Banvit teammate E.J. Rowland came from behind and clotheslined the court invader's soul out of him. Don't run onto the court.

World's worst referee takes phone call in the middle of a game

Last week the highly anticipated battle between North Whidbey Middle School and Oak Harbor Middle School in Oak Harbor, Washington, USA took place.

But despite the high stakes of the matchup, one of the referees spent a minute chilling on his phone.

Those kids didn't practise twice a week after school and miss the second half of last period for you to treat the game like a joke, sir.

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