This one's for the scrubs

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We are very much without basketball right now, and in the spirit of tiding ourselves over until NBA play kicks off again in October, we pay homage to a distinct subset of hidden heroes—the scrubs. More specifically, today we will salute every middling NBA player who ever took off from Earth and reminded the league's biggest namebrands the most important and immutable lesson of basketball: Anyone can get it. The following are 25 priceless images of the chickens who dared to fly with eagles and won. God bless them all.