by Micah Hart

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another edition of the insanely popular series “Can he ball?” Last week we discussed World Series hero and 1990′s slacker-film lookalike Tim Lincecum, who you decided (63%-37%) can, in fact, ball.

This week’s contestant is a man who is about to return to the nation’s airwaves after a 10-month hiatus spurred by one of the most public breakups in history, a man whose doppelganger is the President of Finland, a man who gave us the greatest weather report in history, and a man whose new TBS talk show debuts Nov. 8:

Conan O’Brien

O’Brien certainly brings the funny, but can he bring the pain on the basketball court?

Let’s examine the evidence:

– At 6’4″, Conan certainly has the height to play the game. But as gangly as he is, I could see where he might have been too embarrassed to play growing up if he wasn’t any good (as everyone assumes tall people can play basketball).

– I don’t recommend asking his advice for your NCAA tournament bracket.

– According to exceedingly-accurate Wikipedia, Conan attended Brookline High School in Boston, where he was managing editor of the school’s newspaper. I’ll assume that means he didn’t compete for any of the school’s varsity athletic squads.

– O’Brien went to Harvard, and as we all know, there is only one person who played at Harvard that is any good at hoops, and his name is Jeremy Lin.

– Conan has been around the world of basketball before, filing this report from All-Star Weekend all the way back in 1995 in Phoenix:

Look how young everyone looks! I think Shaq and Charles have each gained an entire person since then. Also, though it’s simulated, Conan gives a glimpse of his form at about the 5:07 mark.

– O’Brien isn’t afraid to take on NBA players – here he takes on Shaq in an impromptu dance contest (is there anyone who hasn’t been in a dance contest with Shaq yet) during his short-lived tenure as host of the Tonight Show.

– O’Brien has also tried his hand at baseball. Twice, in fact.

There is no doubt that Conan is one of the preeminent funny men of our time, but that don’t mean he can play this game.

Or does it? It’s your turn to decide.

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