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Tim was sitting behind us at Champps during the lockout. He was with AD and someone else. I didn't know who he was at the time
Drob and family were next to us at PF Chang's at La Cantera. Everybody left him alone which I thought was cool.
I agree 100%
Those guys need to have their private time even when they are in public. Especially now that Tim has two kiddos. Only time I ever talked to the players was back in '03. I went to a game against the T-wolves in Minne and before the game we went to Cheveys to eat and Jarrin Jackson was there with Mike Brown. They saw us with spurs shirts on and talked to us, so we sat down a sec and chatted a bit. I remember calling JJ "laker Killer" to which he smiled ear to ear. Only talked a few mins and then went to get our own table.
Tim was sitting behind us at Champps during the lockout. He was with AD and someone else. I didn't know who he was at the time
Drob and family were next to us at PF Chang's at La Cantera. Everybody left him alone which I thought was cool.
Since we are sharing, a couple of frozen moments for me...
Uhm, in th e 90's during college, I was pumping gas at an Exxon off 1-10 (north of 410) and on the same pump, but opposite side of it, I saw Antoine Carr pull up and pump. He was huge. I was too scared he would think I was trying to rob him or something to say anything.
I saw Terry mings once coming out of Northwest Theatre with some chick, and I pulled one of those "Uhm, hey.....", again, it was dark and in a parking lot of a late movie, didn't want him to take a preventive strikiing kick to my head. We were both parked out aways from the theatre and the only two cars near us. Kinda shady.
My friend was working security at these tower condos in Alamo Heights (off Broadway) and I was waiting in the lobby for him to go to lunch, saw JR Reid with another guy (cant remember) coming out of the elevator. Didnt know he lived there. Froze.
Only time I didn't freeze: Saw TP and Eva at CrackleBarrel (how do you spell?) last year. My niece took a camera phone pic with them. Eva is tiny so that makes them approachable, at least by my niece.
You guys are lucky....i live in China...My brother saw some of the lakers once here they were playing the Rockets.
As long as we are sharing stories... I was at a Spurs Kings game in Sac last season... I had a grand plan to sneak down to courtside (I had nose bleed tickets) at half time and try to get Tim's attention. So everything was going fine, I managed to get to courtside and I was about 15 ft. away from Tim and Pop. The plan was to try to get his attention and say something encouraging like "keep up the good work Tim!" Or, "Go Spurs go!" Or something... Anyway, when I got down there I froze because I have never been so close to Duncan in my life and I absolutely could not remember what I was going to say. The only thing that kept coming into my head was, "I love you Timmy!" I didn't want to say that because I didn't want to sound like a sexual stocker. So I just stood there frozen and staring. Anyway, security soon came and asked if I belonged where I was and I tried to make up some excuse but they saw right through my plan. I guess I stood out. I was the only one wearing a Duncan jersey in a sea of purple. I froze, they took me away, and that was it.
I saw tim and his future wife at the movie theater on Wurzbach the summer after his rookie season-98. He was wearing a baseball cap and slouching as we were walking to our cars after the movie-I heard his distinctive voice, I wanted to go and give him a kiss on the mouth-didn't think my wife would like that too much... Anyway I shot a look his way, he looked at me like give me some space and I did. I think thats part of the reason he likes SA vs la or ny because he can go places and not be bothered...
ive got a pretty nice autograph collection. at resturants i have seen bruce, malik, mike brown ( who was very nice and had a convo fer a while) D Rob , tim , nolan ryan,avery and tony eva and tony's bro a bunch. once while workin at tonys fav. resturant eva stopped me to get her some more sweet n low. call me crazy, but i think she thought i was hot, the way she looked me up and down and smiled. after having seen her up close in real life, im not impressed. she is so tiny, huge head and her arms could fit through the middle of a roll of toilet paper, ha guess i coulda just said TP
They eat at the one on 281N, too. My co-worker sees them there when she lunches with her daughter sometimes.
i saw sean elliot today. actually i got to carry his golf bag to his cart because he was playing at the pro am for the atat championship. also my girlfriend shopped next to manu and fabricio at best buy at the rim. and about 3 months ago just happened to be at fiesta texas and d. robinson was there with his son. man that guy is huge.
Yeah, I mean... come on... let the guy have everything. I mean... he's got a rough life. Living in a mansion. Driving a car worth more than your house. Give the guy his space, show a little compassion.
The first time I met Timmy, I was down at the railing before a game.
I was actually waiting for Rasho, but I wanted to see Tim too.
I had Timmy's card with me for him to sign, but I was distracted by guess whoand didn't see Timmy until he was right in front of me.
I wanted to talk to him but I was just too in awe.
I couldn't get my basketball card out of the plastic case for him to sign and I wouldn't have dreamed of asking him to wait a second, so I just handed him the whole thing.
He autographed the case for me and I still have it.
The only other time I froze in the presence of a Spurs player was the time I caught up with Rasho in the lobby after the 2004 Tip Off Luncheon.
I had a whole great speech planned but got wrapped up in how I was standing right beside Sho and forgot the whole thing.
He hadn't seen me yet. I was a little bit behind him.
Next thing, I know Sho keeps walking and I was like, "Oh no! He's leaving!"
So I reached out and took his arm and said, " Rasho."
He turned and looked at me, waiting for me to say whatever it was I was going to say.
But I still hadn't remembered my speech. So we just stood there for a second, him looking at me, me looking at him.
Then I realized I still had him by the arm and so I let go.
He still stood there for a second ( the whole thing only lasted a minute).
I didn't know what to say so I just sort of smiled and shrugged and off he went.
Oh and then there was the time at the Open Practice later that same year when the players did a meet and greet with some of us beforehand.
I got to take a picture with Sho and had those two minutes to tell him whatever I wanted.
So I looked up at him meaning to say something to the effect of how he is my favorite player, but instead I said, with all the admiration in the world, " You're tall!'
Sho laughed at me- can't say I blame him.
I couldn't focus. He was just too cute and so close.
Those were the days.
Man I saw Oberto w/ his wife at Babies R' Us about a year and half ago. I kept telling my wife I think that's him but I'm not sure. Then I saw his freakin' silver cap (or whatever that is) and I knew it was him. When I was stationed in Hawaii there was this one club where a lot of famous people went to. In the three years I was there I saw Shaq, The Rock, Damon Wayans, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Pauly Shore (getting turned down by chicks).
If it were me, I would delete Pauly Shore's name from that list for good when re-telling that story.
But Pauly Shore was the most memorable. He was emceeing at the club and was either drunk or on drugs and I'm pretty sure he wanted to say "let's see some s" but ended up saying " s" It was like they stopped the music and everyone stopped dancing. At the end of the night Damon Wayans had some chick spread eagle on a car in the parking lot. Oh yeah that chick Gina from Martin was at the club the same time Damon Wayans was there too.
I'm in LA & i ran into Kandi-Man (when he was w/ the Clips) at an ATM in Redondo Beach in the middle of the night.
LOL, Ok, combine that with the earlier part of the story... NOW it sounds better! :-)
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