After New Hampshire: Trump Takedowns, Bernie Basketball and More

The New Hampshire primary ended essentially the second polls closed, with several news outlets immediately declaring Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Noted Shouter Donald Trump the winners.

It was touted as a win for party outsiders.

Here were some of the night’s lighter moments that you may have missed.

• SEE ALSO: 2016 New Hampshire Primary Winners: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders

Bernie balls so hard

Bernie Sanders was called the winner literally one minute after polls closed, so he had some time to kill while was waiting to make his victory speech at Concord High School.

So he worked on his jump shot, which looked pretty polished, in the adjacent gym.

“How is he making every single one?” Megyn Kelly asked.

“He’s from Brooklyn,” Bret Baier replied.

Rubio realizes his robot ruse

Instead of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio riding the Iowa momentum to GOP glory, like many predicted he would, Rubio ended up finishing fifth and capturing no delegates.

Maybe repeating the same line four times during Saturday’s debate wasn’t the best idea? Even Rubio admitted it.

“I did not do well on Saturday night, so listen to this,” Rubio told supporters Wednesday night. “That will never happen again.”

The campaign press release that followed, naturally, repeated itself three times:

Another one bites the dust

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s takedown of Rubio at the debate apparently wasn’t enough for him to win over many voters.

He finished in sixth place, Fox News said he wouldn’t qualify for the next GOP debate, and Christie was expected to drop out of the race, according to several national news outlets.

Maybe now he’ll have time to finally pick up that mop.

The Daily News and Huffington Post not impressed by Trump

Trump finally got his victory, but that didn’t spare him from the wrath of two news outlets who have been outspoken against his candidacy so far.

The Huffington Post sent out an alert to its mobile app users that said, “A racist, sexist, xenophobe just won New Hampshire.” The website’s homepage read, “WTF GOP.”

And the New York Daily News erred, as always, on the side of subtly with its front page Wednesday, which you can see above.

Gregg Popovich was not impressed

After the San Antonio Spurs’ 119-101 win over the Miami Heat, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich asked TNT sideline reporter Greg Aldridge who had won the primaries.

“Sanders and Trump,” Aldridge told him.

Popovich thought for a moment, then shook his head in a reaction that spoke for a lot of Americans: