The paucity of NBA activity in the month of August evidently has farmers across the country itching for professional basketball.
While a rebuilding season awaits the Portland Trail Blazers, a pumpkin patch in Sauvie Island, Ore., is showing its Rip City colors - complete with a hashtag tribute to late Blazers forward Jerome Kersey, who passed away last February.
Meanwhile, down south, a fan of the Memphis Grizzlies - the team that knocked the Blazers out of last season's playoffs - has etched a giant likeness of center Marc Gasol into some crops.
Check it out, @memgrizz fans: the @Agricenter_Intl crop maze featuring @MarcGasol! Great pic via: @JJaggersWMC. #GNG pic.twitter.com/qcSqP4HHt9
— Joyce Peterson (@MemphoNewsLady) August 17, 2015
With this type of visibility, odds are good the Blazers and Grizzlies become the preferred NBA teams of space aliens.