Anybody have any cool stories about meeting players?

[Carl Spackler]

Didn't know if anybody had a cool "I met so-and-so" story.

I ran into Kemba as he left his limo to go into the arena on New Year's Eve 2012, he was on his cell and I just waved and said hey and he waved back. 

[AggieLean]

Met Chris Paul as a kid. He and my big bro used to play pickup ball together around Winston. Also have come across him a couple times in the last few years, as his cousin married a family member of mine. He's cool. He pushed my grandmothers wheel chair while we were at the church. We talked ball and then I dipped. That's my cousin now lol

Harry Giles mom is my aunts real good friend and does her hair. Real cool kid, and the whole city is rooting for him to do big things. 

Josh Howard is the coolest of all the ball players from Winston, though. Still hangs out in the neighborhood and is very down to earth. 

I just realized how small Winston Salem is after typing this and reading over it lol

[Carl Spackler]

10 hours ago, AggieLean said:

Met Chris Paul as a kid. He and my big bro used to play pickup ball together around Winston. Also have come across him a couple times in the last few years, as his cousin married a family member of mine. He's cool. He pushed my grandmothers wheel chair while we were at the church. We talked ball and then I dipped. That's my cousin now lol

Harry Giles mom is my aunts real good friend and does her hair. Real cool kid, and the whole city is rooting for him to do big things. 

Josh Howard is the coolest of all the ball players from Winston, though. Still hangs out in the neighborhood and is very down to earth. 

I just realized how small Winston Salem is after typing this and reading over it lol

Yeah I met Paul when I was in high school, he was cool

[Jackofalltrades]

My bro got to shoot a Checkers game and met Ewing while there. Said he couldn't believe how tall he was. Said he was very cordial and stopped to shake his hand. 

[MillionDollarCam]

I've met a couple players at the hotel that the teams stay at in Charlotte. One of my best friends dad is actually the GM of the hotel so we occasionally will go down and hang out while players or entertainers are in town. 

I've gotten a couple pictures with Kemba, Jeff Adrien, and Tyrus Thomas a while back.

I also have a picture with Jason Terry and I swear he was a little buzzed. He kept walking around the hotel lobby with a grocery bag and looked a little confused as to where he was.

Just a few others off the top of my head are KG, Vince Carter, Brandan Wright. Obviously some others but they slip my mind.

[Carl Spackler]

Another one to add is I ran into Jeff Taylor at Bubble a couple years ago and we chilled for a bit, he was cool. He had a girl with him that was probably five-foot-nothing, 80 pounds and just tatted up

[Black]

Saw Cody outside the EpiCenter once.  Said "what's up", and he acknowledged me.  

[cookinwithgas]

Many years ago the Hornets (the real Hornets not the renamed Bobcats) equipment manager was into this girl who worked at my kids daycare, and we ended up getting passes to go to where the players were coming in and out. My stepson was a giant Hornets fan and got to meet a lot of them, my treat was meeting Robert Parish who was a Hornet that year, man his knees were a mess. Anyways we met everyone but Alonzo, and when the equipment guy heard that he took us into the locker room to meet Alonzo, it was just us and him for like 5 minutes hanging out, made my kids year. Nice guy.

[nctarheel0619]

Met Sean May downtown.  Dude was getting hammered and being a fat ass.  

Met Kennedy Meeks, Nate Britt, Theo Pinson, and Isiah Hicks in Chapel Hill.

 

[Your GFs favorite huddler]

Met James Harden while working security at an Arizona st. Bar. Talked bball with me and he left dapped me up with $300 cash. Kevin kolb and the entire horrid Cards oline at the time uswd to come in on our big Monday nights in cargo shorts and order a 30pack of bud light at one time instead of bottle service, Cailis Campbell, Micheal Floyd. Coco crisp is a dope dude always took care of security staff. Not an athlete but Rick Ross came in with 8 of the largest human beings I've ever seen. I really LoVED that job. Good times

 

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[Chaos]

On my many business trips just in the last year, I've been on flights with Spencer Hawes, Brian Roberts, Tre Boston, Capt Munnerlyn, talked to all of them and they were all cool. Saw Frank Kaminsky, MKG, Mike Tolbert, and Andrew Foucoult in the airport on the same day, none with each other lol. A few weeks ago I was in Indianapolis checking in for my flight to Charlotte and up walks Myles Turner heading to DFW. I complimented him on his game, namely his outside shooting. He seemed to genuinely appreciate the feedback, super nice guy.

[Carl Spackler]

Not basketball, but Steven Wright sat at the table across from me, my wife and my buddy at Boston Beer Works after a Red Sox game last year in which he struck out nine Twins in eight innings. I asked if he had the Blueberry Ale and he said "Oh yeah I've already had several"

He was cool, he was about half in the bag and he had some friend with him in a Wright All-Star jersey so I guess he kinda wanted to get noticed

[AggieLean]

My dad played ball with MJ back when he was in college in the 80's. Pop had a girlfriend in Chapel Hill that he used to go see on the weekends, and while there he'd play pickup ball. He said MJ would always be playing. He said MJ has always been a serious trash talker. Used to call my dad short stuff as he was guarding him lol (my dads 5'8)

[Shocker]

Met Dean and a bunch of players (Jordan, Kenny Smith, Perkins, others) at unc bb camp.  Also met JR Reid at pyterdactyl club in charlotte.  Also, said hello to Mike Rucker in Target.  Bout it but did play soccer in high school with S keet Ulrich but he is a minor actor at best.