Its hard to compete with Marvin "Bad News" Barnes. Here is a story about him:<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The best News story I know (from either David Halberstam or Frank Powers) involves Barnes sleeping through a team flight. They called him to tell him he was going to miss the flight. "News will catch a later flight," he said. About 5 minutes before tipoff, Barnes shows up. He's dressed in his uniform, and wearing a full-length mink coat. He's also polishing off a Big Mac and fries. "Have no fear... Bad News is here."</div>How about this one:<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>In 1972, ABA basketball legend Marvin "Bad News" Barnes, refusing to board a flight scheduled to leave Louisville, KY at 8 a.m. and land in St. Louis, MO at 7:59 a.m. was quoted as saying:"I ain't goin' on no time machine."</div>He was referring to flying from one time zone to another so that when he landed it was as if time went backward.Bad News was great but I dont think ANYTHING competes with Gilbert Arenas. When he was a rookie he got the normal rookie treatment. One day they sent him out to get a bunch of powdered donuts. He brushed all the powder off and applied baby powder to them. 3-4 guys starting eating the baby powder donuts then they almost throw up. Arenas could not stop laughing.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC @ Feb 12 2006, 09:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Bad News was great but I dont think ANYTHING competes with Gilbert Arenas. When he was a rookie he got the normal rookie treatment. One day they sent him out to get a bunch of powdered donuts. He brushed all the powder off and applied baby powder to them. 3-4 guys starting eating the baby powder donuts then they almost throw up. Arenas could not stop laughing.</div>That is hilarious. I don't have any funny stories but I had to comment on that because it was pretty funny.
This one is kind of basketball related..I got it from Jayson William's book "Loose Balls"..Apparently Williams went to a bar one night with one of his teamattes and there happened to be a pianist playing..According to Williams, his teamatted, trying to appear intellegent went up the pianist and asked him to "play some Picasso"....Ive always thought of that to be a pretty funny story..
From this year: Gerald Green missing practice to go back and get clothes from a recent NBADL trip, Mo Evans missing second half start for drug test, Troy Murphy not re-newing gym membership bc he thought he was goin to Ind
My 2 favorites has to do with Shaq and Wade, and with MJ and Bird1. Shaq claims that no one has ever dunked over him (though we have live footage of Derrik Coleman doing it to him, but dowt show that to the big guy). During one practice Wade attempted to posterize Shaq. The only problem was that Shaq stuffed it back and said 'Dont you ever try that again!'2. During MJ's younger years with the Bulls, he and Bird were warming up for a game involving the Celtics and Bulls. Jordan was dribbling the ball around and lost the handle of the ball and it rolled to Birds foot. Bird picked up the ball and chucked the ball 100 feet opposite from where Jordan was. Jordan said 'Hey, you know who I am?' Bird responded 'I dont give a f**k who you are!'I found those two stories real funny.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>2. During MJ's younger years with the Bulls, he and Bird were warming up for a game involving the Celtics and Bulls. Jordan was dribbling the ball around and lost the handle of the ball and it rolled to Birds foot. Bird picked up the ball and chucked the ball 100 feet opposite from where Jordan was. Jordan said 'Hey, you know who I am?' Bird responded 'I dont give a f**k who you are!'</div> Larry Bird didn't take <Censored> from his opponents.Ruben Boumtje Boumtje was practising FT's on one side of the practise court, and from the other side of the gym Rasheed Wallace chucked a ball and hit him on the head, he and Qyntel Woods laughed it up, Ruben was pissed... Then their was the time Glenn Robinson dropped his game tickets in the lockeroom in Atlanta, and he couldn't pick them up by bending over so he knelt down...He completly lost his athletism as he aged.
Heres another good one:Karl Malone is shooting free throws in the NBA finals against the Bulls on a Sunday night.He misses both, Scottie Pippen looks over at him and said "The Mailman doesnt deliver on Sundays"
Larry Hughes playing a game with Philly where his shorts were way too long and he kept having to pull them up during the game. I read about that in SLAM lol.Another. Matt Bonner doesnt own a car. He either takes a bus to the games and practices or walks.edit: I think I will share another Matt Bonner storyDuring a Wolves against Raptors game Matt Bonner fouls KG hard and gets a flagrant. KG runs after him but his teammates restrain him. Matt Bonner gets a flagrant and is ejected. The fans at the ACC roar throughout the rest of the game and the Raptors rebound from being down by 7 points and pick up the victory.
Qyntel Woods got pulled over for drinking and driving, and speeding as well. The officer asks for ID. Woods gives him his basketball card Who actually has a basketball card of themself?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Feb 14 2006, 08:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Larry Hughes playing a game with Philly where his shorts were way too long and he kept having to pull them up during the game. I read about that in SLAM lol.Another. Matt Bonner doesnt own a car. He either takes a bus to the games and practices or walks.edit: I think I will share another Matt Bonner storyDuring a Wolves against Raptors game Matt Bonner fouls KG hard and gets a flagrant. KG runs after him but his teammates restrain him. Matt Bonner gets a flagrant and is ejected. The fans at the ACC roar throughout the rest of the game and the Raptors rebound from being down by 7 points and pick up the victory.</div>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THAT HAS TO BE THE BEST.. HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAhahahahhahahahahgawd that's funny.
Here is one involving the Sixers (mainly AI and Steven Hunter) that happened about two months ago:It is the rookie's job to buy breakfast, and one day when Louis Williams went to buy McDonalds he got only the sausage mcmuffin thing... with only a sausage and bread, nothing else. Usually they get variety for the team. Now, when Louis came back, Allen went off and started laughing at Louis, and asked him why he didn't get variety. Louis said it was way too expensive, and Allen said man, you're in the L now... $50 ain't <Censored> to you. Then Allen cracked a joke (right in front of Hunter) saying the Sixers should trade Hunter for a year's worth of breakfast burgers! Which, by the way, would have happened had the Hornets not rescinded the trade.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>2. During MJ's younger years with the Bulls, he and Bird were warming up for a game involving the Celtics and Bulls. Jordan was dribbling the ball around and lost the handle of the ball and it rolled to Birds foot. Bird picked up the ball and chucked the ball 100 feet opposite from where Jordan was. Jordan said 'Hey, you know who I am?' Bird responded 'I dont give a f**k who you are!'</div> Bird was great.
During a Celtics game, Doc gave Justin Reed the call to go check in. So Justin gets up, walks over to the scorers table, and takes off his warmups. Much to his surprise, Justin is standing there without a shirt on because he had forgot to put his jersey on under his warmup.
