Reply With Quote
Jerome JYD Williams.
Carlos Delfino.
Carlos Arroyo.
Smush Parker.
Larry Brown.
Bill Walton.
Me & my Lakers had our picture taken next the Magic's Charter that never left Florida.
tee, hee.
Jerome JYD Williams.
Carlos Delfino.
Carlos Arroyo.
Smush Parker.
Larry Brown.
Bill Walton.
A few of the players I have met...
Magic Johnson - I told him I saw him hit a halfcourt shot the week before and that I always rooted for the Lakers against Boston in the Finals. Cool guy who I got to talk hoops with for about 15 minutes while he waited for his plane.
George Gervin - Shot hoops with him and his son Gee at Incarnate Word.
Dr. J - Got to meet him and shoot the for a few minutes before his final game in San Antonio (he broke his finger and was out for the game, so he was happy to hang out with the fans).
David Robinson - Met him right after the Spurs won the 87 draft lottery and many more times after that. My dad and I sold his first biography at baseball card shows, so we got to know David and his family (we bought the books from his father Ambrose).
Charles Barkley - Met him when I was about 7 years old when he was on Philly. I think I told him he set good screens or that I liked it when he and Cheeks ran the pick and roll... something like that. He gave me a funny look and jokingly said "What!?!" like I was nuts for knowing what that was at that age.
Bernard King - I got to be the honorary ballboy at a Spurs-Bullets game in 87 or so, and I told King I was a huge fan of his after seeing him drop 50 points on the Spurs and that I was really glad to see him back in the league (he came back and was an all-star in Washington after everyone thought his career was over in New York).
I spoke to Brent Barry about a week after the ill fated JR Smith trade. He asked me what I was doing in San Antonio and suggested I should be in California instead.
He also said that he was jealous of my travel plans and wished he could be backpacking around the world like I was at the time. I was amazed, I should have suggested that we swap positions because I was relatively jealous of his career.
He was extremely cool. He ended up asking me a bunch of questions about my travels, and he told me about his surfing trips with his buddies. It was strange really. It was like I was the one with the high profile and he had approached me. He also said some things I wouldn't repeat here. Cool dude.
Last edited by NZ Spurs; 12-08-2009 at 05:53 AM.
Mugsy Bogues and Dell Curry.
He's a pothead, huh?I spoke to Brent Barry about a week after the ill fated JR Smith trade. He asked me what I was doing in San Antonio and suggested I should be in California instead.
He also said that he was jealous of my travel plans and wished he could be backpacking around the world like I was at the time. I was amazed, I should have suggested that we swap positions because I was relatively jealous of his career.
He was extremely cool. He ended up asking me a bunch of questions about my travels, and he told me about his surfing trips with his buddies. It was strange really. It was like I was the one with the high profile and he had approached me. He also said some things I wouldn't repeat here. Cool dude.
I met former NBA player player, Darius Washington last summer in Macedonia.
Kareem and A.C. Green at LAX (1987)
David Robinson at my Church here in S.A.(May of this year)
Avery Johnson at S.A. Airport (2008)
Manu signed my jersey and Finley waved and said hi at the AA center
Ralph Sampson when he was with the Warriors.
I won a chance to shoot for 100K from the opposite FT line, from mid-court for a new car, or a 3 pointer for a Hawaii vacation...anyone remember that promotion?
I chose mid-court for the new car - the shot was on target but short.
Afterwards, I was eating dinner at a riverwalk restaurant when Sampson and some other players that I didn't recognize came in the restaurant. Sampson particularly recognized me from the game (which is kinda bizarre) and gave me crap about missing the shot. I got his autograph somewhere...
Nada, closest I got was talking to a guy who played a pickup game against Michael Finley and said he was pretty good. This was in the late 90s...
A bunch of them: Magic, Walton, Elliott, Manu, Parker, Bonner, Udrih, Sean Marks, and some others...
Malone, Stockton, Okur, Hornacek, Felton Spencer and Jackson Vroman.
I sat next to Charles Barkley at a Indians game
Met Lebron several times when I lived in the condos across from his neighborhood. Would see him at the mall all the time. Also met him at the Browns/Vikings game this year, his suite was 2 down from the one I was in.
Went to the same church as Larry Nance and Mark Price- Price gave me a pair of his signed shoes I still have.
Met Hot Rod Williams at Summit Mall
Met Disainia Diop and Ricky Davis at a Browns game in the suite level
Damn,
You really went Paris Hilton on those guys
Matzel, Matzel, good things, Base.
Or Tigers 1828484th mistress.
My local newspaper is practically counting down the days till Christmas revealing one of his mistresses each day.
Magic Johnson - Sat right beside him at the Luther Vandross Concert
Michael Cooper - Helped him carry his luggage at LAX to catch his flight when he was dropped off at the wrong airline.
Kurt Rambis - Met at Lakers practice by way of Michael Cooper
Byron Scott - " " "
Jamaal Wilkes - " " "
Norm Nixon - Foxhills
Chris Mills - met at a picnic
Shaq - met on the streets of inglewood.
Cooper let myself and a friend watch the lakers practice at the forum. All of the Lakers players, except Cap came over and shook our hands. Pat Riley as well.
One of the best experiences of meeting an athlete did not involve a NBA Player. I met Muhammad Ali on Crenshaw Blvd. back in the day. I talked to him and play boxed with him. That was the greatest!
I met Clyde Drexler in Houston at a Sports Clips my mom worked at when I was younger. I met Ron Artest this summer on Hollywood Blvd., by the Kodak.
Kobe Bryant and & Derek Fisher--at a shootaround they had at my HS gym back when Kobe was drafted by the Lakers and before he started the Summer League in Long Beach.
Kenyon Martin--Didn't really meet him, but said what's up to him in the walkway between the Venetian and the Palazzo in Vegas.
Detlef Schrempf--Met him after he was participating in a charity event bowling tourney in Vegas @ the Red Rock.
Magic and Kareem--they both came and spoke to us during a basketball camp back in 1994. Signed a few things and were really approachable.
I see/meet more NFL players than I do any other sports...
The best thing I've ever seen/heard was watching Brian Westbrook gamble 5k-15k a hand in black jack at the Bellagio...and an Eagles fan saying under his breath, "Hey Brian, with how much time you spend injured, you should save that money for a rainy day!" Those who hear, well, they had themselves a little chuckle.
johnny moore
sean elliott
david robinson
antoine carr
malik rose
maurice cheeks
antonio daniels
avery johnson
brent barry
dejuan blair
george hill
boris diaw
*maybe a couple more?
ive met more when i was a kid but just cant remember who... used to go to a bunch of meet&greet things with my mothers boss back in the day plus the law firm my mother worked for represented most of the spurs back then so id see elliott and the rest of them all the time when i was up at work with my mother.
Was this during all star weekend a couple years back???
I met ac green at a dennys once lol
lol @ meeting A Christ named Green at Denny's...
The Westbrook dealy-o took place on Easter Weekend I believe in 2008.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
