Charlie Kelly Might Secretly Be A Retired Pro Basketball Player
Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats, bird law expert and former NBA star?
Although the rest of the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang may dismiss Charlie as their Waitress-obsessed, milk-steak snarfing janitor, it appears his talents may span beyond plumbing, almost-impressive levels of illiteracy and perfectly pitch-matching the beep of a broken carbon-monoxide detector to the hum of a recorder.
Last Wednesday, sinnedsystem headed to Twitter with a theory hinting that Charlie may have taken his talents beyond the confines of Paddy’s Pub, moonlighting as an NBA power forward under the alias of Josh McRoberts.
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“Hey, so I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I just discovered this guy who plays in the NBA and looks disturbingly like Charlie Day if he was long,” they wrote alongside two snaps of the now-retired pro athlete during his stint with the Charlotte Bobcats (these days once again known as the Charlotte Hornets).
Sinnedsystem isn’t wrong. Between their scraggly brown facial hair, pointy noses and generally bewildered expressions, McRoberts and Day — the man responsible for Charlie — are certified doppelgangers, a sentiment several It’s Always Sunny fans elaborated on in further posts.
“Charlie if he didn’t drink paint throughout his childhood,” joked Enthropean, while others took note of the pair’s height disparity — McRoberts stands at 6-foot-10 and Day at an estimated 5-foot-7 — and pitched nicknames like “Long Day” and “Charlie Week” for the retired NBA vet.
But to ItsumoNihongo, Charlie just might have hidden his side hustle in plain sight, the most obvious hint being when he served as a referee to a(n extremely disastrous) youth basketball game during Season Two’s “The Gang Gives Back.”
“This popped up on my feed, and I was like, ‘Wasn’t Charlie a referee in the basketball episode?’” they observed, including a GIF of Charlie in his black-and-white striped shirt.
But while Charlie’s possible pro-basketball stint may remain between Day, God and whoever does the It’s Always Sunny showrunner’s taxes, we definitely now know which member of the gang we’d pick first for a game of pickup basketball.
