Ted Cruz Defeats Jimmy Kimmel in 'Blobfish' Charity Basketball Game
In a highly-anticipated showdown dubbed the “Blobfish Basketball Classic,” Texas Senator Ted Cruz defeated late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel in a charity game Saturday.
Though the match was supposed to end at 15 points, they agreed to call it quits early during the tiring two-hour one-on-one game at Texas Southern University. Cruz came out on top at 11-9 in the match described by the Houston Chronicle as “a slow-motion car-crash of half-court basketball.”
“We apologize to the game of basketball,” Kimmel said on behalf of both players.
The match was inspired by a comment Kimmel made during one of his late night monologues, in which he joked that Cruz looked “like a blobfish.” Cruz followed by challenging Kimmel to a one-on-one match.
The beneficiaries of the face-off were Houston-based charities Texas Children’s Hospital and Generation One.
The winner tonight? @generation1TX and @TexasChildrens
Support them below:
Generation One: https://t.co/w1DSdwizi1
Texas Children’s: https://t.co/qtF1BnAvLI pic.twitter.com/gVCKirPHxz— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 17, 2018
Agreed. Two great charities run by great people. https://t.co/VBDhB8YNso
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) June 17, 2018