If you sent me your basketball pun in the original post (https://steemit.com/contest/@improv/puns-and-prizes-learn-to-pun-easy-fun-anybody-can-be-a-hit-at-parties), you won!

I have upvoted all the basketball puns!

Congratulations to all the winners!

I will also now select my favorite pun, because there's no glory if someone can't gloat.

Drumroll please.

@miniature-tiger wins with a Kelvin Durant pun!

Why did this pun win?

Let's analyze (the best part of joke-telling)

• Is it about something that I kind of know about, but not really, so I'll feel smart by laughing? Check.
• Does it use simple words in the setup, but make me think in the punchline, thereby causing a laggy brain update that wants to laugh before anyone realizes I didn't get it right away? Chekov.
• Does it fulfill the promise of the premise (a basketball pun)? Czech Republic.
• Do I think nobody has ever made this joke before except maybe in the sports section, but I don't read that, so it doesn't count? Chechnya.
• Does it follow a good pun with a slightly less good pun to prove that the punster had many options to choose from and chose the best one? Yes.

So congratulations to you! If you'd like me to upvote another post of yours, drop it in the comments below along with your next pun entry, @miniature-tiger. This is the prize you won. (Subject to my high standards of content, though, you know.)

Let's make this weekly! Drop your best puns below for our new topic (and if you don't know how to make puns, see the post I posted above for instructions).

The new topic is:

Here's an example you can't use:
A cough walks into a doctor's office and sits in the waiting room. The receptionist says, "You have an appointment?" The cough says, "No, I'm just looking for the 2016 Allergy magazine Augus t-issue!"

Perfect. That joke was perfect. See, it's funny because you should use a tissue if you have a cold and sometimes if you have a cough you have a cold, and magazines come in issues, and issue sounds like tissue, with a t, and August ends in a t, and boy don't doctors' offices always have old magazines, isn't that funny because it's true?