One of the great Internet finds of last year—for basketball fans, anyway—was Brandon Armstrong’s YouTube channel. In July, 2015, Armstrong, who has played professionally in Spain and in the National Basketball Association Development League, uploaded a twenty-nine-second video in which he imitates the Oklahoma City Thunder’s mercurial point guard, Russell Westbrook. Playing on a hoop with a rim set about eight feet off the ground, he mimics Westbrook’s tilting pull-up jump shots, tomahawk dunks, and lunatic celebrations with hilarious precision. The clip spread on Facebook and got picked up by the Sporting News and ESPN—eventually, it was shared on Twitter by Westbrook himself. Since then, Armstrong has posted dozens more parody videos, featuring impressions of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Shaquille O’Neal, among others, and has been dubbed the N.B.A. Impersonator.

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