One of the scrubs in Kings training camp is in this movie:</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> The 7-foot-1 center and relative unknown at Kings training camp this week is fresh off a different kind of tryout, a six-month experience that also involved basketball but also came with much less pressure and far more laughs. Until May, he was making his Hollywood debut in the Will Ferrell movie, "Semipro," a spoof about the American Basketball Association and a team owner/coach/player (Ferrell) looking to take his fictitious team, the Flint Michigan Tropics, into the big time of the NBA.</p> With filming taking place in Flint, Mich., Los Angeles and Minneapolis, Byrd portrayed the part of real-life ABA player Artis Gilmore, a legend who went on to play in six NBA All-Star Games after the ABA folded in 1976. Woody Harrelson and Andre 3000 from the group OutKast are also in the film that is due out in late February.</p> Byrd, meanwhile, was asked to do all the necessary hoops tasks, from blocking, dunking and running the floor with Ferrell. Off-camera, Byrd said, Ferrell was as hysterical as he can be on it.</p> "We cracked jokes throughout the whole six months," Byrd said of Ferrell. "Will Ferrell is an awesome guy. He's tall, too, and he can play basketball. He's like 6-4, can shoot, works hard; he's there early."</p> Other than the disparity in height, the description fits Byrd this week.</div></p> http://www.sacbee.com/kings/story/419449.html</p>
