Re: Random Thought Thread
I picked up <u>Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vegabond</u></p>
Shirley is straight up hilarious.</p>
Just in the intro, something so hilarious.</p>
"Kobe Bryant actually had bodyguards at training camp. (Note the plural.) His personnel would exit the hotel before him, with one man maintaining a lookout position from a balcony above. When he was safely stashed on the shuttle to practice, they would retire to a trailing car. If I had remained completely true to my new philosophy, I would have asked him, "Are you serious? You have multiple bodyguards? You really are one pretentious son of a bitch." My reticence would come back to haunt me in practice one day, when Bryant blocked a poorly executed shot of mine and, in the process, knocked me to the floor. (Probably due to an uncoordinated recovery on my part, not because of a foul on his.) I found my temporary nemesis standing over me, legs straddling my midsection. He began venting his rage at the gall it had taken for me to challenge the area around the basket with my ill-conveived, pathetic attempt at a basketball shot. The senence(s) he used included the following words: bitch, ever, don't, weak, shit, bring, and in here. The order in which he used them remains unclear. I was completely taken aback. I was so confused that I froze. I had no idea why he felt so threatened that he was yelling at me, the white guy who would probably be the first player released. Given it to do over again, I'd have punched him, or at least kicked him in the testicles.</p>
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