Jackson State Legend Thomas 'Snacks' Lee Tells His Story Ahead of Friday Night HORSE Battle

Right before sports were stolen from us, we were luckily gifted one final moment of levity, thanks in large part to the loping 3-point shot of Thomas "Snacks" Lee.

Jackson State's team manager became forever gloriously associated with college basketball in popular culture when he checked in on the team's Senior Night, got the crowd going positively wild, and drained a long trey before the clock hit zero.

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Snacks is set to re-up his legend Friday night, where he'll be playing H-O-R-S-E on Twitch opposite Instagram star @maxisnicee, playing with household objects, and sponsored by Buffalo Wild Wings.

To mark the event, he told 12up the untold story of his arrival on the scene.

"Going into the game, coach gave our team a great speech about how they'd better play hard if they really cared about me, so that they could give me a shot to get in the game," Snacks told us. "So I knew the guys would play hard for me, but I really thought I might just warm up."

"Then, at the five-minute mark at the end of the game, the whole crowd started chanting, 'We want Snacks!'. Coach didn't want to pull the trigger too early, but I took off my shooting top, and the whole crowd went nuts. Once I went in around the two-minute mark, I knew I had to keep the crowd hype," he snickered. "I knew exactly what I was doing."

As for the shot? "I probably shoot about 25-50 of those shots a day. We play HORSE and Around the World, and I often beat the players. If I was gonna make a shot, I knew it would be on the right wing." Swish.

Friday night's competition is restricted to the living room, though, so Snacks can't show off quite the same range. But he's got a plan nonetheless.

"I might put out a dunk package tomorrow or something -- I'm in the lab tonight," Snacks said. "I don't want to announce it now and give my opponent the upper hand."

Tomorrow night, though, he'll be ready. The man called Snacks -- known thusly for the last seven or eight years because he used to bring the players extra Skittles -- will polish off a plate of Asian Zing and fries ("I can't do the spicy. I can do a couple of 'em, but that's it.") and get to work.

And if he wins this one, he's got the NBA in his sights. After all, they're streaming H-O-R-S-E these days, too.

"I could probably take Trae or KD," Snacks said. "Once [KD] gets back for real, he's gonna be unreal. We gotta get him now."