NBA Players that you have met?

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Post#21 » by Wizenheimer » Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:01 pm

I met Arvydas Sabonis one time. Shook his hand and it was gigantic

But his head was even larger, about the size of a Buick. Nice guy though
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Post#22 » by Wilford Brimley » Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:05 pm

I've met Mark Cuban, very nice and outgoing.

Amare is nice but quiet and soft spoken. Tall as fcuk, too.
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Post#23 » by Jase » Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:24 pm

Rick Mahorn: Who was really cool.

Christian Laettner, Don Reid (Both in their Pistons years)

Rasheed Wallace: Who came up to me and started talking to me because I was wearing his #30 Blazers jersey at a Pistons game. He signed the jersey and was cracking jokes. Awesome experience.
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Post#24 » by AshyLarrysDiaper » Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:53 pm

Dickey Simpkins at a Tiffany store. I lose.
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Post#25 » by shanedude » Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:05 pm

You're going to laugh but Brian Scalabrine. Nice guy :lol:
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Post#26 » by NYK 455 » Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:19 pm

Kurt Thomas, Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell, Chris Dudley
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Post#27 » by Sasaki » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:09 am

Used to know Kevin Love. Was a nice guy, until the fame went to his head.
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Post#28 » by Trip » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:30 am

Met Blake Griffin at the apple store his sophmore year at OU. Nice kid, chatted while he waited for them to work on his ipod.
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Post#29 » by RvM » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:38 am

Met vince at one of his basketball camps in the summer, and he was too busy for me to get his autograph, but he looked liked he was having a lot of fun with the kids at his camp.
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Post#30 » by WillVanderbilt » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:47 am

Was just thinking about this the other day. At the bank I used to work for Jannero Pargo came in one day like two hours before a Bulls/Bucks game and I wondered why he wasn't already at the UC since we were all the way across the city. That was one of his only decent games last year, I think. He didn't say much and isn't as big as I expected an NBA player to be.

Anyhow, the other day my friend who still works there told me James Posey was there. We sure know how to pick em!
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Post#31 » by AgEnT50 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:49 am

Dwight Howard- Met him at a Steak n Shake. It was around 3am. He was with one of his boys and a female friend. Since I was the only other customer in the joint at the time, I pulled up next to them and talked to him for a good 15-20 mins

Grant Hill
Darrell Armstrong

Tracy McGrady

Rashard Lewis. . .Apparently he likes to go out for drinks after most games. Introduced him to a blue long island. . .he had never heard of it. Cool ass guy...although he sucks and is soft as hell on the court

All of them were pretty nice...Rashard & Mac both let me take pics w/em.
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Post#32 » by TOVCFAN » Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:46 am

zulu wrote:I saw Hakeem Olajuwan in a mosque once, but people were swarming around him so I didn't get a really good look.


Hakeem is my buddies uncle. When he came to play for the Raptors. I thought I would of had the chance to meet him but dude never dropped by to see him. He promised him some tickets and we never received any.
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Post#33 » by Nickson » Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:33 am

Back in Orlando a couple years back I met a bunch of the Bulls/Magic at a club called Dragon Room. I met Kirk Hinrich, Andre Barrett, Chris Duhon, Jameer Nelson, Hedo Turkoglu, Rashard Lewis. Jameer was probably the nicest out of the bunch. I told Andre Barrett I had been watching him since the McDonald's high school game he appreciated it.

I met Gilbert Arenas and Antonio Daniels years back too outside of Washington DC at a PF Changs. They were both real nice. They got out of a Ferrari wearing wife beaters and Wizards shorts.

I met Jarvis Hayes at a restaurant, he was a real nice guy too

Mike Miller, talked to him once, he was nice enough to talk to me

I've met Gheorghe Mhuresan plenty of times. A couple times at Wizards Games (he is alwas there walking around) and once at a lounge called Lima. He is really something to see, the guy is enormous, and his hands engulf yours
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Post#34 » by ilikecb4 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:10 am

I met Jamario Moon at NBA 3 on 3 LOL


He was really nice dude, but dumb as hell........Skinny as hell too
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Post#35 » by ilikecb4 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:13 am

oh i also met Andre Iguodala.....the most arrogant, douche **** i've ever met in my life....


he was walking around like he was Lebron or Jordan......he was signing a bunch of stuff at the mall for some footlocker event
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Post#36 » by AIfan3 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:26 am

Players i've met :

AI - Met him before a game thanks to a close friend of mines that got me courtside to see shootaround. He's actually pretty down to earth despite his appearance.

Patrick Ewing - Cool guy, in fact, real cool, met him at my mother's prior job ( a hospital in harlem) a ways back handing out toys and gifts to kids around christmas.

Emeka Okafor - Saw the guy in midtown last summer, strolling around like he wasn't a 7 foot basketball player. Got an autograph, but he couldn't talk long for some odd reason.
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Post#37 » by GameTime_3 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:16 am

Met a few;
Dr. J
Shaq---One of nicest players I've ever met.. Offered to buy me food and talk
Billups---We split the VIP area
Wade----Met him more than 10 times
Lebron----Met him this week...pretty nice guy....
David Stern----Gotta chance to talk to him
Erik Dampier
Alonzo Mourning
Jason Kidd---Went down stairs to the gym at a hotel to find him shooting around
D. Mutombo
Kenyon Martin
Eddie Jones
Tim Hardaway
Jokim Noah----Met him in Orlando during Summer League
Al Horford----Met him a Summer League
Pat Riley----Nice guys..Every time I talk to him I feel like I learned something.
Bill Russell
Gary Payton
Michael Beasley-----Funny guy! He cares about the fans...to the point that it gets him in trouble..
Udonis Haslem
Brian Grant---Humble and very nice..Wants to give you a hang shake
.............I would say their are another 30-40 players that I didn't feel like posting...
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Post#38 » by ballhawk1 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:23 am

I met Chauncey Billups in a club...Let's hope this doesn't get Chauncey in trouble with his wife lol.. nice guy...very calm. I first noticed Chauncey going inside the club as he was getting out of a black Range Rover and Chucky Atkins was in the passenger side getting ready to go inside the club in Pontiac, MI. I think I annoyed Chucky Atkins because I was standing in the back of the line repeatedly screaming CHUCKY and he kept looking back LOL

On a different night in the same club I met Darko. I remember being mad because there was a guy standing in front me and blocking my way to go inside. I remember thinking to myself "this tall ass dude better get out of my way" so I gave him a little shove. Then I looked up and realized it was Darko and said DARKOOO. He was standing in the way because some girl kept trying to talk to him but he seemed uninterested and trying to walk away and eventually went to a VIP room..his English was broken when he was talking to the girl. This was during his rookie year.
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Post#39 » by GaNGsTaRr93 » Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:26 am

When my mom worked at the homeless shelter in Orlando I met Tmac
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Post#40 » by irie » Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:28 am

Antoine Walker. And he was ridiculously nice. With my Jamaican accent I had to repeat myself a couple times every sentence haha but he was cool and all that.
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