<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> The season has (mercifully) entered its final stretch with less than twenty games remaining on the schedule, but Vince?s difficulties have not ceased because of it. Today it was learned by Nets? brass that Vince Carter has been diagnosed with Haphephobia. What exactly is Haphephobia? Simply put, it is an extreme fear of being touched.</div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> ?We had no idea,? said head coach Lawrence Frank. ?We knew he didn?t like physical contact. You could see that from the way he plays the game. We didn?t think it was psychological. Now it all makes sense.? Yes, now everything is clear. The fadeaway jumpers, the graceful ballet-act he puts on when driving the lane, twisting and turning to avoid contact, the jumpers from five feet beyond the arc. It?s not laziness or low basketball I.Q. but simply a fear of being touched when his shot is contested. ?Nobody goes out thirty feet to guard the ball,? said teammate Richard Jefferson. ?No one can touch you if you fade away from the player. We always knew he had a high basketball I.Q. but we could never understand why he shied away from contact like he did. Now we know.? </div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> ?You have to give Vince credit,? asserted coach Frank. ?Every time I got on him for not attacking the rim, never once did he fire back. In a lot of cases he?d do it, knowing the intense fear it caused, because he wanted to help the team win. That?s heart - to face adversity like that. Just for him to go out there and play such a physical game with such a disabling phobia is remarkable. Hopefully it will open his critics? eyes. Vince is a special, special player, and a very brave young man. We hope he is a New Jersey Net for a long time.?</div> Source Ok it's fake, but pretty funny.
My first thought was that this was from a fake newspaper like the Onion but then I read it and actually believed it. Haha, I feel dumb as hell right now.
thats funny i laughed until i cried, but honetly sometimes i hate being touched i dont like hugs i dont know why
<div class="quote_poster">Swish Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> My first thought was that this was from a fake newspaper like the Onion but then I read it and actually believed it. Haha, I feel dumb as hell right now.</div> haha, same here.
