A guy whose probably best known for albums titled Wowee, Zowee and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, is an unexpected Fantasy BBALL fanatic.

Just two hoops leagues that I’ve been in for about five years or so. The first year we played just five categories – and Allen Iverson was the king of five-cat!!! I also remember Brevin Knight being quite the stud in five-cat as well. As for fantasy, I play all three sports. It’s a tossup between baseball and B-ball for me. Different fish. Baseball is all about the roto, basketball is all about head-to-head match ups…

That’s knowledge from the dude who wrote the lyrics it took a giant ramrod to raise the demon settlement.

Recently, Stephen Malkmus, Indie-Rock hero and former bandleader of Pavement, sat down with Steve Alexander from Rotoworld (who he evidently plays in a fantasy league with) to talk fantasy basketball. We learned that Malkmus’ team is named Widespread Perkins. Sadly, he’s not so much a fan of Perk as much as he’s making fun of a dude in the league whose got man-love towards him. Alas.

Malkmus also apparently once spelled “chutzpahs” for a double-double word bingo (“that was deep”) in a game of Scrabble. I wonder if you have to agree to ask him the obligatory “Favorite Scrabble Moment” question before you get to interview him? I know I’d have that in my contract if I pulled off that word, for like what? 178 points?

Check out the video for Pavement’s ‘Cut Your Hair’…