One can still dream! After FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl claimed the chancellorship yesterday, he is going one step further today. He wants nothing less than a regular spot on an NBA basketball team. So he signed up for the NBA draft today. Megalomania or healthy self-confidence?
NEW YORK, USA – The Austrian Airlines machine OS 87 stops at the gate after a flight time of 9:35 hours. Businessmen jump up and push toward the exit. Kickl squeezes out of the hand luggage compartment, straightens his suit and lets a stewardess lift him off. After an eight-hour flight, he has arrived in the land of opportunity.
Everything possible
Kickl stares at the Statue of Liberty with bright eyes. “In Austria, people just smiled at me when I said I wanted to go into the chancellery. But everything is possible here, you will not be judged here, be it because of your origin, your appearance or because of National Socialist activities again.”
Kickl he puts himself in his upside down MAGA cap and sails along the coast with it. But the FPÖ boss is not here for fun, he has one goal: “The NBA. If things don’t work out with the chancellor’s office, I want at least to have a contract with the Lakers in my pocket,” he smiles and throws an airball three meters past the basket on a streetball field in Harlem.
NBA-Draft
Shortly thereafter, the NBA draft begins. Miami Heat declines, Toronto Raptors declines, the air is getting thin. Are the boyish dreams of the megalomaniac, 1.12 meter short master strategist from Carinthia ending in thin air?
But then salvation. In fact, there is a team that takes on “Airdolf”, as he is called in the Viennese streetball scene. “Ah, wonderful, I fit perfectly into their game philosophy, many thanks to the Kentucky Ku Klux Klowns,” he says happily. He immediately shows his skills, picking up the basketball with both hands and even briefly managing to lift it an inch off the floor.
Kickl is also convincing in the medical test. The increased level of ivermectin in the blood doesn’t matter, since doping is not only allowed in the NBA, it’s even mandatory. Kickl still has a long way to go to fame. “Well, everyone starts small, then you work your way up, keyword Iverson, that’s quite normal,” Kickl smiles. Then you put him in a plush pink horse costume and he hops onto the field. What was kept from him: Kickl was not hired as a shooting guard, but as the team mascot “Herbie Horseman”.
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