Brandon Armstrong — a former college and professional point guard from Decatur, Georgia, who is widely credited with starting the modern sports-comedy genre with his “Be Like…” NBA impersonations. His own channel describes him as an “NBA Impersonator, comedian, YouTuber, basketball player.”
No — and this catches almost everyone. The Wikipedia article “Brandon Armstrong (basketball)” is a different man: Brandon Simone Armstrong, born 1980 in San Francisco, 6′5″, Pepperdine, drafted 23rd overall in 2001 and three seasons with the New Jersey Nets. BdotAdot5 has no Wikipedia article and no Basketball-Reference page. There is also a third Brandon Armstrong, a professional dancer, whose name is used by bootleg merchandise sites.
No. He played four years at Lincoln Memorial University, an NCAA Division II school in Harrogate, Tennessee. Weber State appears in the same 2025 TBT roster listing as him — but as the college of a teammate, not his.
In July 2015 he missed his flight to NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. He made a Russell Westbrook impression the next day, published it to YouTube on 27 August 2015, and it reached SportsCenter. He had been posting on Vine before that, but with non-sports material.
Westbrook retweeted the original. Brandon Jennings' retweet is the one Armstrong himself credits with breaking it open. Stephen Curry became a texting contact. Rajon Rondo interrupted a DeMarcus Cousins interview to tease Cousins about not having been impersonated yet. Armstrong's own line: “I've become really good friends with almost everyone that I impersonated.”
He was named MVP of the 2017 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game in New Orleans, with 16 points and 15 rebounds as the East won 88–59. He played in the 2018 edition as well.
Yes — more than the sheets suggest. There is a live B Dot Official Fan Store at fanarch.com/collections/b-dot, on the Fan Arch network his own YouTube channel links to. Thirteen products across two designs — Vibe Curator and Baller — priced $19.99 to $52.99, with every variant in stock when this page was built. The store also sells a Video Shoutout at $24.99 personal / $124.99 business, and he has a separate Cameo profile at $55 / $350. What does not exist: bdotadot5.com, shopbdot.com, brandonarmstrong.shop and linktr.ee/bdotadot5 all fail to resolve. Anything selling BdotAdot5 goods outside Fan Arch should be treated as unofficial.
Read on 27 August 2026: 1.12M YouTube subscribers across 1,200 videos and 277,904,098 lifetime views; 1,254,330 Instagram followers; 139.3K on X. Facebook and TikTok cannot be given. The Facebook page his own channel links to no longer loads — its last archived state, December 2023, read 1,417,724 likes. The TikTok handle @bdotadot5 now belongs to a different, unverified account created in May 2025.
Through BdotTeam@unitedtalent.com at United Talent Agency, the address published on his own channel. For a personalised video, use Cameo. See Contact.
