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38311, Sports Celebs you've met or kicked it with.......
Posted by Earl Flynn, Wed Apr-05-06 01:10 PM
Chauncey Billups
Antonio Mc Dyess
George Blaha (local announcer)
Lebron James



I hope to add Jerome Bettis to the list soon
38312, Have a friend who knows Loul Deng
Posted by Ownzdacourt, Wed Apr-05-06 01:12 PM
Gonna party this summer with him.
38313, a few
Posted by southphillyman, Wed Apr-05-06 01:15 PM
i chilled at malik rose crib back in 99 (that's why spurs were my west coast team)
of course AI
i seen TO , never chilled wit em or nutin
i balled with kobe when he was in HS
and i met charles barkley and manute and hershey hawkins and all them and went to a few practices back then and chilled in like 88
cause i use to live around st.joes, which is where they practiced back in the day
i live in SNJ now around a alot of eagles players
but i never see any cept for trot and TO
i wanna see mcFag so i can fucking ask em for a fair one
38314, James Iha....impressive
Posted by Triber, Wed Apr-05-06 01:33 PM
.
38315, Point of clarification
Posted by magilla vanilla, Wed Apr-05-06 06:09 PM
Iha did not play the solo on "For Martha." William Corgan, Sr. did. But I do agree that it's amazing.
38316, Is that Billy's dad
Posted by GreenWhaleProductions, Wed Apr-05-06 07:22 PM
.
38317, yup
Posted by magilla vanilla, Wed Apr-05-06 09:52 PM
38318, NO
Posted by southphillyman, Thu Apr-06-06 09:04 AM
james iha did
i know this for certain
38319, you're right. Bill Sr. did "The Last Song" on the Thirty-three single
Posted by magilla vanilla, Thu Apr-06-06 06:43 PM
and played "For Martha" live once with Billy. My bad.
38320, Jim Abbott
Posted by KosherSam, Wed Apr-05-06 01:31 PM
Derrick Ward
Carlos Baerga
Wally Szczerbiak
38321, I've always admired Jim Abbott
Posted by Earl Flynn, Wed Apr-05-06 01:48 PM
for obvious reasons of course
38322, he was responsible for the single funniest thing ever said...
Posted by KosherSam, Wed Apr-05-06 04:14 PM
he came to give a speech at my school.

my roomate and i got backstage passes to meet him afterwards.

we did the autograph thing, and then were just small-talking him, when the following took place:

me: so what are you doing with your free time these days?
jim: i play alot of golf. i started playing towards the end of my career, and now i play a couple of times a week.
roomate: oh really? what's your handicap?
jim: *deadpan* i only have one hand.

no human being on earth has ever said anything funnier.
38323, bah!
Posted by veritas, Thu Apr-06-06 07:11 PM
38324, these guys are people just like me & you
Posted by illegal, Wed Apr-05-06 01:32 PM
38325, I know that. I just wanted to know if you've met any
Posted by Earl Flynn, Wed Apr-05-06 01:55 PM
It's not like I pulled a "get off my dick nigga and tell yo bitch to come here"

In the case with Chauncey, He spoke to me first, hell I walked right past him as if he was an average dude when I walked into the car wash to pay my bill. As I was doing that he walked right up toward me and said what up....


Part of the reason could have been that we were out in the burbs and black folks are few and far between but when I saw him the first time I still walked past him and his wife.

After we talked for a min I drove off and threw my hands up. Didn't ask him for a thing... But I did tell folks later on that day

LOL!


Same thing with George Blaha at the same car wash earlier in the summer

McDyess came up to my job for autographs, so I got one for my nephew and kicked with him for a min.



Lebron was with us at a Party to re name the Gund Arena to Quicken Loans Arena so that is self explanatory.


Im cool with Jerome Bettis's brother also so might get a chance to kick with the Bus too for a hot min. I just cant ever seem to make it to the parties he and his brother have been throwing lately in the D
38326, RE: Sports Celebs you've met or kicked it with.......
Posted by Brian Dawkins, Wed Apr-05-06 01:34 PM
Eddie Guerrero(sp?), saw him at the local mall and at Busch Gardens, lol. Dude is chill as hell.

Also Darryl Strawberry at Busch Gardens as well. He was with his family and in his own world, though. Either that or strung out on crack. Either or
38327, Orlando Cabrera
Posted by Triber, Wed Apr-05-06 01:34 PM
i chilled in Olrando's appartment with him, his wife and 2 kids when he was in Boston. My girlfriend plays soccer with a guy who knew OC from their days as kids. Dude was nice as hell. Good cook too
38328, Too many
Posted by TurkeylegJenkins, Wed Apr-05-06 01:38 PM
The more you meet, the less impressive it gets.

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38329, Mo Vaughn
Posted by KUHL_BREZ, Wed Apr-05-06 01:41 PM
I was a sophomore in high school and he came to talk and hang out with all the kids. He talked about how life was in CT and just basically shot the breeze. I know it was a long time ago, but no matter what media folk say about him bein a slob and goin to tittie bars, the time I met he was cool as shit.
38330, I met him once
Posted by thoughtprocess, Wed Apr-05-06 01:46 PM
I work at a ballpark and he came by to sign stuff, he's gigantic, but contrary to popular belief, it's mostly muscle.
38331, He looks taller on TV
Posted by KUHL_BREZ, Wed Apr-05-06 01:49 PM
I'm 6'3" and he didn't seem like a really big dude to me either.
38332, I don't mean tall
Posted by thoughtprocess, Thu Apr-06-06 12:08 PM
cuz he was sitting down at a table. but he's still built.
38333, i loaned sebastian telfair my pillowcase one time
Posted by soundsop, Wed Apr-05-06 01:47 PM
38334, i put in a lil light work for OJ once.
Posted by illegal, Wed Apr-05-06 01:51 PM
i heard he been "lookin" for me. but shit, my beeper number aint changed.
38335, lol
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Apr-05-06 01:52 PM
38336, ha.
Posted by Jesse Badgreen, Wed Apr-05-06 05:15 PM
38337, St. Louis is not that big, I've either met or hung out with almost every...
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Apr-05-06 01:51 PM
athlete that has played here or is from here at some time or another. And I've met a lot of guys on others teams when they were in town to play against the Rams and Cardinals.


38338, ^^^^^ bouncer at a strip club
Posted by soundsop, Wed Apr-05-06 01:53 PM
38339, LOL! not quite, but I do frequent spots like that occasionally and it IS...
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Apr-05-06 01:57 PM
where I've met a lot of these guys at
38340, i like double posts
Posted by soundsop, Wed Apr-05-06 01:53 PM
.
38341, jerry azumah, sean taylor, oj simpson
Posted by Crash Bandacoot, Wed Apr-05-06 01:56 PM
met sean taylor at a gas station a few months back (near redskins park). he was driving a sweet ass silver 750 bmw. i was kinda apprehensive about askin for his autograph because he looked mean as hell. he kindly gave me his autograph tho and asked me where i was headed to...

my friend is good friends with j. azumah so, she invited him to this fashion event and i got to meet him. he seemed very cocky and arrogant, has a huge ass neck, and i heard that he treats his girl (who i also met) like shit.

met oj simpson on howard's campus RIGHT after he was found not guilty. asked for his autograph on my dollar bill, he laughed and asked could he keep the dollar because he was broke. i said "no."
38342, does Wayne Turner count?
Posted by Oakley, Wed Apr-05-06 01:58 PM
38343, Xavier McDaniel, Reggie Lewis, Dee Brown, Eric Williams
Posted by Lach, Wed Apr-05-06 02:12 PM
Then, there's my cousin Ahmad Carroll on the Packers who's introduced me to Brett Favre and Donald Driver. Wayne Turner who went semi-pro in the NBA, but he couldn't make the cut for the Celtics. Andre Tippett, Manny Ramirez, Dave Cowens, ML Carr, Junior Borough (wasn't in the NBA long), Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Sherman Douglas, Joe Johnson & Josh Smith of the Hawks, Dwight Howard, Rick Fox, Dominique Wilkins, David Wesley, Tommy Heihson (see this fool at the Legends clubhouse after a Celtics game- WILD OL DIRTY MAN).
38344, Where do you work?
Posted by EmDub, Wed Apr-05-06 02:34 PM
I know Tip too. Ive played some golf with him. He is a cool dude and still massive.


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I Love That Dirty Water...Boston Your My Home
38345, I live in Atlanta now
Posted by Lach, Wed Apr-05-06 03:35 PM
back in the early 90s my sis use to live next to him in Weymouth. I work for Jones Lang LaSalle corp real estate company.
38346, Does nabbin' Ken Dorsey's middle school girlfriend count?
Posted by celery77, Wed Apr-05-06 02:13 PM
Me and this girl dated for a long time, back when Kenny was still in college, and I'd tell her all the time she fucked up shooting him down back at that Titanic screening in the 7th grade, getting stuck with me instead. She had some funny stories about him and his family.

One time we were at her parent's house with a friend of ours and Kenny's mom came over and they were chit-chatting about how the kids were doing. She was like "Kid A is doing this, Kid B is doing that, and Kenny is getting ready for the draft." This is right around when the Iraq war was starting, too (this is important context), and our visiting hippy friend said all shocked and concerned, "There's going to be a draft?!?" And we had to tell her, nah, don't worry, the NFL draft.

Otherwise I met scrubs. Mark Wilson, who plays T for the Redskins, was neighbors with another buddy. I was there over Thanksgiving and my buddy, all of 5'8" and 140 lbs, got real drunk and challenged Mark to an arm-wrestling contest. It was funny shit. The other kid I know is Jordan Beck, just got drafted in the 3rd round by the Falcons but couldn't play last year due to injury. I'm good friends with the Beck family and I like that kid a lot. You ATL fans better support that motherfucker.
38347, RE: Sports Celebs you've met or kicked it with.......
Posted by Cenario, Wed Apr-05-06 02:23 PM
i talked to rik smits online once.
38348, Was it on okayplayer.com?
Posted by RikSmits, Wed Apr-05-06 04:30 PM
Cuz I had a lot of niggaz fooled that day that I am indeed Rik Smits. I deserved an Oscar for that days work in GD until Deluge's netherlandian ass came in exposing my inability to speak dutch other than what translator.com spits out.

I am not Rik Smits, though I play him online.
38349, ^horribly played
Posted by fif, Wed Apr-05-06 09:39 PM
38350, that is possibly the worst post ever created on this planet!
Posted by MISTA MONOTONE, Thu Apr-06-06 08:55 AM
(had to get my Bill Walton on...lol)
38351, agreed, that reply had SO MUCH potential
Posted by ThaTruth, Thu Apr-06-06 11:18 AM
38352, Nah I needed to come clean
Posted by RikSmits, Thu Apr-06-06 12:20 PM
If you guys would have seen the GD post, i killed a solid 6 hours of work in one day frontin and had about 45 people asking me various questions and believing my answers. Some dude came into sports and made a "RIK SMITS IS IN GD ANSWERING QUESTIONS!!" post. It got to the point where I actually felt bad so many people believed me.

I'm not tryin to have people run around happy tellin their friends they talked to the dunkin dutchman when it was just me bored in the cubicle lmao
38353, i remember that shit
Posted by veritas, Thu Apr-06-06 07:15 PM
but everybody in sports knew that that was an alias, it was only the gd folk who were all excited.

now you've shot your wad.
38354, RE: Sports Celebs you've met or kicked it with.......
Posted by jigga, Wed Apr-05-06 02:33 PM
Jason Terry (went 2 elementary & high school w/ him)
Corey Dillon (high school)
Magic Johnson
Nate Robinson
Reggie Evans
Rodney Pete
Matt Hasselbeck
Kevin Millar
38355, i used to work for a kids football magazine
Posted by smutsboy, Wed Apr-05-06 02:53 PM
so i've done photo shoots with:

Donovan McNabb (cool, didn't say much, came dressed in a jersey and slacks, it looked weird on the cover)
Peyton Manning (he's as OCD as you'd expect, was telling the photographer what to do and shit, no audibles though)
Ladainian Tomlinson (our photographer fucked up but LT didn't care, he was patient about it)
Jerry Rice (nice to the kids, cold to everyone else)
Ricky Williams (back when he was good)
Priest Holmes (great guy)
Michael Strahan (hilarious)
Brett Farve (really down to earth, we had to move benches around and set stuff up and he was there carrying things back and forth with the rest of us)
Jeff Garcia (nice, didn't seem nearly as gay as everyone thinks he is)
Ben Roethlisberger (nice guy)
38356, Stop the Farve hate!!
Posted by RikSmits, Wed Apr-05-06 04:33 PM
He moves benches and shit with normal people.
38357, Quite a few old school Browns and The Doc
Posted by Dr Claw, Wed Apr-05-06 02:58 PM
The Doc talked government contracts with Herman Fontenot off the cuff.

Also had a few words with Reggie Langhorne (a childhood hero) and Greg Miller (who asked about the Eagles jersey The Doc was wearing, LOL)
38358, Man I love how you post in 3rd Person
Posted by Earl Flynn, Wed Apr-05-06 03:28 PM
shit is bananas!

LOL!
38359, I've met Mick Foley and Phil Simms
Posted by Polyphemus, Wed Apr-05-06 04:02 PM

38360, Tell us about meeting Phil
Posted by TurkeylegJenkins, Wed Apr-05-06 04:21 PM
I've met him, too. But I'm curious to know what your experience was like.

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38361, Sorta met Tayshaun Prince in Vegas.
Posted by Ryan M, Wed Apr-05-06 04:02 PM
I was at the Wynn, and we were leaving and there stands Tay with 2 friends by the door. There's no NOT recognizing him, he's a...unique...looking dude. Anyway me, my girlfriend, and her bro walk out the door right past the dude and he and I look at each other and say, "That was Tayshaun Prince right?" So we both go back in just to say whassap, not to be a bother to him or anything....so we walk back in and he says, "Tayshaun Prince, right?" And he doesn't even LOOK at us, just says, "Naw man." and had the "Don't bother me" look on his face.

Understandable I guess, it was like a week after the finals last year.
38362, lol
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Apr-05-06 04:13 PM
38363, alien mofo better be glad someone knows him
Posted by Lach, Wed Apr-05-06 04:21 PM
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38364, there there now....... LOL!
Posted by Earl Flynn, Wed Apr-05-06 04:51 PM
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38365, Ah 4got about Vegas. I was on the craps table w/ Antonio Tarver
Posted by jigga, Wed Apr-05-06 05:03 PM
Dude was cleanin up. Made a ton of dough of his rolls & thanked him 4 it. Told him he really won that 1st figt against Roy as well
38366, hillarious OJ Simpson story...
Posted by GreenWhaleProductions, Wed Apr-05-06 04:35 PM
This is 100% true, isn't regarding me, but an old supervisor of mine at work.

This was about a year after the whole trial and thing went down.

This is at the LA County Fair which takes place every year ni Pomona, California. She's all drunk and running around, and accidentally bumps into OJ Simpson who was there with his children. She says "oh my god, please don't kill me" and runs off. And yes, she's white and blonde. I told her it was a terrible thing to say to someone in front of their kids but I'm pretty sure OJ catches shit like this all the time.
38367, wow that's ballsy
Posted by smutsboy, Wed Apr-05-06 04:44 PM
>This is 100% true, isn't regarding me, but an old supervisor
>of mine at work.
>
>This was about a year after the whole trial and thing went
>down.
>
>This is at the LA County Fair which takes place every year ni
>Pomona, California. She's all drunk and running around, and
>accidentally bumps into OJ Simpson who was there with his
>children. She says "oh my god, please don't kill me" and runs
>off. And yes, she's white and blonde. I told her it was a
>terrible thing to say to someone in front of their kids but
>I'm pretty sure OJ catches shit like this all the time.
38368, Like I said I've met a lot of people but the craziest MF I ever met...
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Apr-05-06 04:36 PM
hands down has to be ex-Houston Astro/NY Met Derek Bell. Dude was OFF THE CHAIN, lol!
38369, stories please
Posted by 3xKrazy, Wed Apr-05-06 08:40 PM
he had some pretty solid seasons.
38370, well I don't want to put ALL his business out there but he's out the...
Posted by ThaTruth, Wed Apr-05-06 11:52 PM
league now anyway so fuck it. Lets just say he's cut from the same cloth as his fellow Tampa homies Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden and it has nothing to do with anything on the field.

There's this one local gentleman's club that he liked to visit whenever he was in town and after hanging out a while he usually alway got something "to go" while he was booking that he would also be asking around where he could cop some blow. The first time he asking be about that shit I was like "WTF?" I had players ask me where they could get some weed before but that was the first time somebody had ever asked me about coke.

I didn't help him but I just used to tell him to be careful. I used always worry that I was going to pick up the paper the next morning and read about him being robbed or killed.
38371, that was part of the knock on him
Posted by veritas, Thu Apr-06-06 07:20 PM
he would party harder than he would play, and then when people were popping bottles in toronto and other successful teams he was on he would be partying like he just kirk gibsoned somebody. but really he struck out looking in a situation that didn't even require him to be clutch while pinch hitting.

or something like that.

so folks didn't really appreciate that.
38372, didnt he start a limo company?
Posted by Ceej, Wed Apr-05-06 08:42 PM
38373, Sat next to Joe Dumars while he was scouting Jameer and Delonte
Posted by theothursdays, Wed Apr-05-06 04:36 PM



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2005 National League Rookie of the Year.
2006 National League All-Star
David Wright's Daddy
38374, I would love to met Joe D.
Posted by Earl Flynn, Wed Apr-05-06 04:51 PM
That is probably the only Sports Celeb I would jock........
38375, Joe D was cool as you'd imagine him to be
Posted by theothursdays, Wed Apr-05-06 05:15 PM
real friendly and open about what he was thinking watching the game...

He was tracking the Pistons score on one of the 4 phones/PDAs he was carrying

Felt like an idiot but at the end of the game, got him to sign my game notes.




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2005 National League Rookie of the Year.
2006 National League All-Star
David Wright's Daddy
38376, I woulda picked up my Blackberry and joined in LOL!
Posted by Earl Flynn, Wed Apr-05-06 05:55 PM
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38377, I was at his house
Posted by Rjcc, Wed Apr-05-06 10:50 PM
didn't meet him tho


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38378, I work with athletes so....
Posted by TheGameChanger, Wed Apr-05-06 04:39 PM
I could name many.
38379, Tyson Chandler at Dave n busters, he had to pay $3 to get in! lol
Posted by GreenWhaleProductions, Wed Apr-05-06 04:41 PM
When I saw Tyson I was like "damn, he just signed that 60 million dollar deal" He's actually one of my favorite players in the NBA but I didn't wanna bother him.

Damon Jones, Paul Pierce, Dirk all in Vegas. Damon was playign blackjack, like 3 weeks after Heat got beat by Pistons last year. Mark Cuban was there too with Dirk at club Pure, wearing dirty ass jeans haha.. Chris Webber who I heckled and talked shit to.

oh yeah, Tracey Murray and Chauncy Billups in a club in LA. Murray was out of the league and was wearing this Spurs jersey... Chauncey seems him and they hug.. then my boy starts talking to Chauncey, and I'm like, "fuck this, you don't even like the Pistons" and Chauncey kinda laughs...little did I know, months later the Pistons would break my heart and beat the Lakers in the finals...

I was right behind Avery Johnson in line for a ride at Sea World (San Diego) for like an hour. I didn't even talk to him, guy was constantly on the phone. I just didn't wanna bother, the guy is just trying to be with his family. Guy was small. This was right after he left the Spurs... Funny thing was later that night when I went to watch the Shamu show, he was sitting right behind me.

Also, a shitload of fighters from the UFC and shit like that. Trained with many...

Oh, remember the movie Youngblood? The hockey movie. Ran into the coach from that movie once. haha. that dont count, but i loved that movie
38380, LMAO Avery at Sea World
Posted by theothursdays, Wed Apr-05-06 05:12 PM
We should see who's seen someone in the strangest place



>I was right behind Avery Johnson in line for a ride at Sea
>World (San Diego) for like an hour. I didn't even talk to
>him, guy was constantly on the phone. I just didn't wanna
>bother, the guy is just trying to be with his family. Guy was
>small. This was right after he left the Spurs... Funny thing
>was later that night when I went to watch the Shamu show, he
>was sitting right behind me.
>

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2005 National League Rookie of the Year.
2006 National League All-Star
David Wright's Daddy
38381, Recently named hall of famer Charles Barkley
Posted by dao_rida, Wed Apr-05-06 05:17 PM
My best friend used to work at this little neighborhood spot in Narberth called Giuliani's. It was a favorite of Charles - and anytime he ate there he was guaranteed to be sitting at the bar having a beer after dinner, bullshitting with the bartender. The place closed around 10, so I'd be there to pick up my buddy -- they knew me so I could sit at the bar (I was about 16). Anyway, a bunch of times I sat at the bar with Charles. I never said much - after all, he was my childhood hero and to this day my favorite basketball player of all time. But Charles would always say hi, ask what I was doing, and get the bartender to bring me a soda or something on his tab. He's one of the most genuine and funny people you'd ever want to meet and he was never too big for the regular guy.
38382, Charles Barkley in Salad Works
Posted by theothursdays, Wed Apr-05-06 05:18 PM
this was about a year ago-- no joke.

Also Mutombo while he was taking his kids to get their hair cut


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2005 National League Rookie of the Year.
2006 National League All-Star
David Wright's Daddy
38383, Lol...
Posted by dao_rida, Wed Apr-05-06 05:22 PM
> this was about a year ago-- no joke.
>
>Also Mutombo while he was taking his kids to get their hair
>cut
>
WHO WANTS TO SHAPE-UP MUTOMBO!!??!?!???!?
38384, RE: Sports Celebs you've met or kicked it with.......
Posted by reality, Wed Apr-05-06 07:11 PM
I met the following alot of them when I was a kid.Dr.J (real cool met him like 3 times) Charles Barkley (probally the coolest athelete I ever met)Darryl Dawkins(real cool)Mo Cheeks,Andrew Toney,Mark Jackson formerly of the sixers now with the New Orleans Hornets,Aaron Mckie,Eddie Jones.Iverson stood next to me in a club two years ago was talking to some chick.I am not into getting autographs and shit now adays though.
38385, Well I have a list I have met and then the list I have "kicked it with"
Posted by radin, Wed Apr-05-06 08:11 PM
Met: Kareem Abdul Jabar
Mike Tyson
Eddie George
Mark Price
Charles Oakley
Ron Harper

Kicked it with: Bobby Hoying
Craig Ehlo
Mike Vrabel
Robert Smith
Deion Sanders

38386, mostly ex-Sacramento Kings
Posted by ricky_BUTLER, Wed Apr-05-06 08:30 PM
Growing up, my neighbor down the street handled a deal of the real estate sales for some of the new and leaving Kings player. She would have a Christmas party every year, and a couple would stop by. I have a picture of me in the usual 7-year old's Christmas sweater, all of 4 feet or something, red eyes, standing next to / below a 6''9 Wayman Tisdale.

Walt Williams, Michael Smith and Yogi Stewart were other guests down the years.

When Michael Smith got traded from the team, I drove over in his car--first time I ever saw a TV inside a ride--with my neighbor to pick up a bunch of his suits at his house to send him.

Yogi, in his one year here, hooked me up with a tickets to all the King's home games and a tunnel pass. That meant that every halftime, my little middle school self would get to walk "backstage", to what was essentially the wife's area, for some dinner. Good ass chicken. And Yogi was going out with this one beautiful woman at the time, worked at Vibe, I think, so she was my usually in the seat next to me. Free tickets, free food, attractive woman, yup, I was a fan.

Eddie Pickney had lunch at my house once, but I'm not exactly sure why. lol One day I came home from school and he was just in my backyard having a sandwich or something. My dad was a Celtics fan, so I think that was that deal.

Where I first lived, KJ had a house about two blocks over. Well, his grandma supposedly lived there. I never saw anyone go in or out actually. Hmm . . . ha . . . We'd try to leave cards under the door for him to sign, but he had a gate, which was really out of place given the area, so you really couldn't get that close. And there was a court in the park right across the street that I'd hear people say he'd show up at randomly back in the days, but that was just rumors to me.

And then Mr. Olivier Michael Saint-Jean, er Tariq Abdul-Wahad, lived near my my best friend's house, but I never saw dude. Wasn't mad about that.

Unfortunately, we moved and my connection died right around the time the Kings started getting good.
38387, Marcus Liberty
Posted by Ceej, Wed Apr-05-06 08:34 PM
i met him at the airport in denver in 92. pretty weak i know.
38388, that reminds me I saw Andre Miller's wifes boobs
Posted by radin, Wed Apr-05-06 08:36 PM
She was sitting next to me on a plane and breast feeding. I couldn't help but sneak a peak during our convo
38389, NICE
Posted by Ceej, Wed Apr-05-06 08:37 PM
38390, Do pro snowboarders count?
Posted by CliffDogg, Wed Apr-05-06 09:46 PM
38391, RE: Sports Celebs you've met or kicked it with.......
Posted by Yogaflame, Wed Apr-05-06 10:45 PM
-Brooks Robinson
-Hank Aaron
-Vida Blue
-Bill Lee
-Fergie Jenkins
-Joe Carter
-David Cone
-Juan Guzman
-Jack Morris
-Tony Fernandez
-John Olerud
-Roberto Alomar
-Pat Borders
-Pinball Clemens
-Rocket Ismail
-Warren Moon
-Graham Leggett
-Vince Carter
-Charles Oakley
-Eric Snow
-Mo Pete
-Oliver Miller
-Steve Nash
-Doug Gilmour
-Curtis Joseph
-Mike Gartner
-Brett Hull
-Eric Lindros
-Sean Burke
-Buster Douglas
-Ben Johnson
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38392, Played dominos with Iverson.
Posted by KnowOne, Wed Apr-05-06 11:17 PM
n/m
38393, those who have met AI
Posted by new jarooz ryan, Wed Apr-05-06 11:19 PM
how tall is he really? some people say he's as short as 5'9" and others say he is a legit 6. wtf is it?


he who fears fate lives like a coward.
38394, 5'9". Im 6'4" & he looked like a kid standing next to me.
Posted by KnowOne, Thu Apr-06-06 08:36 AM
n/m
38395, If poker players count, I got a few stories.
Posted by Ryan M, Wed Apr-05-06 11:42 PM
YES I KNOW IT ISNT A SPORT
38396, lets hear em
Posted by Ceej, Thu Apr-06-06 07:08 AM
38397, Jerry Rice
Posted by Friscos Finest, Thu Apr-06-06 02:35 AM
awesome story behind ^^that.

Joe Montana
T.O.
Barry
Ken Norton Jr.
Steve Mariucci
Andres Galarraga
Brett Tomko
Raul Mondesi
38398, i got tired of seeing Iverson in dc
Posted by Binlahab, Thu Apr-06-06 02:47 AM
it was a regular thing to see iverson high as hell, eating chicken @ popeyes, him & abt 80 of his boys, whole spot smelling like leather & weed & grease

dude was always around

sean taylor, cool guy
lavar arrington was kind of dickheadish
jordan, oakley & ewing @ the same time, handed em some fliers for a party i was promoting, oakley balled my shit up and threw it @ me, i beaned him in the back of the head & bailed out

vernon maxwell
kenny smith
otis thorpe
akeem
robert reid
rodney mccray (favorite rocket not name akeem of all time)
earl campbell
dan pastorini
ken caminiti
glenn davis
mike scott
bagwell & biggio
andre ware
david klinger
carl lewis
sheryl swoopes
lisa leslie
clyde drexler
david carr

for a big city, houston is pretty small you'll meet everybody after awhile, 10x outta 10 they are cool as hell long as you dont bug em too much...i'd nod say whats up, mention something they did & keep it moving, sometimes they'd offer to sign something i never got a autograph tho

i got 1 from earl campbell & akeem now that i remember it


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38399, LOL
Posted by Ryan M, Thu Apr-06-06 02:49 AM

>jordan, oakley & ewing @ the same time, handed em some fliers
>for a party i was promoting, oakley balled my shit up and
>threw it @ me, i beaned him in the back of the head & bailed
>out

Damn, that's hateful.
38400, I can't see him living to tell that story
Posted by ThaTruth, Thu Apr-06-06 10:41 AM
38401, player, im fast when im scared
Posted by Binlahab, Thu Apr-06-06 11:45 AM
jordan laughed tho

needless to say they were surrounded by some of the finest cave hoes DC had to offer

they were cool

i might have done the same thing if i was a rich old ball player abt to get my knob slobbed in the back of VIP by a becky


I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
38402, A bunch, but the most memorable was dinner with Jose Rijo
Posted by Deltha19, Thu Apr-06-06 03:22 AM
Long story short...

Fiance's brother is a groundskeeper for the Reds. End of the season, Rijo takes the groundscrew out for dinner and drinks at a real swany hotel lounge. Her brother was in a car accident that day, and his car was fucked up, so he asked if I could drop him off. I said sure. Pick him up, take him over, drop him off. He leaves his celly in my ride, and he needed it to call me later to pick him up. I didn't want to go in, but I needed to give him his phone back. Parked the ride in the pull up area of the hotel real quick and ran in. FOund them and slipped him his cell, and I was on my way out when I heard this Dominican dude yell "HEY - wer doo yoo tink yer going?" It was Jose, and he thought I was part of the groundscrew for a quick second. Doug (fiance's brother) explained the situation real quick, and Jose told me to sit. He wouldn't let me leave. I tried to just have a beer, he ordered me a monster steak and kept feeding me drinks. Awesome guy, so down to earth, just made me think so much of him by what he was talking about. He was taking some of the old equipment (cages and stuff) from Riverfront/Cinergy back to the island with him for his youth baseball program. Awesome guy, great heart, horrible english. When he'd get really excited, he'd start slipping into hi-speed spanglish and I couldn't keep up.

Athlete's really are just regular people. Rich people that play for a living. Some of them go a little bit above and beyond and do good, and some don't. Just like regular people.

Jose Rijo, besides being the GOAT of the 1990 World Series, was one hell of a cool cat, and a very gracious individual.
38403, Shaq, Shanon Sharpe, Ray Lankford, Starbury, Andrew Jones
Posted by Instant_Vintage, Thu Apr-06-06 03:47 AM
38404, ma-ma-ma-ma-Moookie Blaylock
Posted by ne_atl, Thu Apr-06-06 07:37 AM
Allen "Hendoo" Henderson. Both were/are MAJOR weed heads and we had the same pharmacist

edit: I missed the "met" part. I got a few more...

Shaq: His B'Day parties here are huge (he didnt have one this year though)

The entire 2001-2002 Braves team: because I owned lower level season tickets

Charles Barkley while he was at Auburn

Frank Thomas while he was at Auburn

Peter Tom Willis: I played againt him in HS in football & basketball and over the summer he came to our HS to shoot ball (the only white kid I knew who could dunk ON someone in a game). He went on to play QB at FSU (shouldve played basketball) and played 3 years QB with the Chicago Bears.I still know his family well
38405, Ty Law and Lawyer Milloy
Posted by Harmonia, Thu Apr-06-06 08:06 AM
This had to been about 6-7 years ago. They used to be regulars at the hairdresser I used to go. There was a guy who had a barber seat set up in the shop, so a lot of neighborhood guys go there to get their hair cut. Well so did Ty Law and Lawyer Milloy. They would be in there all the time hanging out. Very nice guys.
38406, I've run into more than a handful ...
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Thu Apr-06-06 08:36 AM
Only heads that were real cool were Sheed, Stu Lantz, Dawn Staley ... Bill Russell was kind of a dick, but he has to be the biggest sports figure I have ever met by a longshot.
38407, Never kicked it with any...but
Posted by auragin_boi, Thu Apr-06-06 09:44 AM
Ran into Tyson Chandler at a mall...woodfield I think
Dude is tall as shit...skinny as hell

I got on the tower of terror at Disney World with Cuttino Mobley the summer '04. He had some BAD chick with him...I was trying not to stare cuz I was with wifey but DAMN!!

I played ball against (and beat) Darius Miles when he was in middle school (I was 19 he was 14-15 at the time).

I was at the premier of "Jordan to the Max" when they had the screening at Navy Pier and I was about 5-10 feet away from Jordan, his wife and Amad Rashad (sp?).

I was Jewel in college and Kerry Wood walks in with 2 girls and a guy friend. This was like his rookie season and earlier that night the Braves had swept them out of the playoffs in '98. They got like a 24 case a beer, he seemed down and the girls seemed hell bent on cheering him up. Me and my guy spoke...but frankly I didn't give a fuck cuz I hate that team.
38408, Some KY bball legends
Posted by theMindofFury, Thu Apr-06-06 11:12 AM

I was in middle school and despised (still do) UK. Still got Travis Ford's autograph, then promptly threw it on the ground.
Sat next to Kenny Walker at a UK/U of L game. He told me about getting into a car accident earlier in the day.
Met Denny Crum while working at ESPN Radio. He had on a red track suit. Looked like Paulie Walnuts sans wings.

My brother has met a slew of sports celebs. Jeter, the entire Gonzaga bball team, Macho Man (I think) some Dookie out in Utah 6 years ago. He has a knack for meeting and conversing with famous people. I think he made fun of Patrick Swayze's movie "Black Dog" once.

C


"This brother is free, I'll be what I want to be."
38409, Wilt Chamberlain.
Posted by Frank Castle, Thu Apr-06-06 11:13 AM
I met him at a card show I was working for. Dude shook my whole arm with his big ass hand. He was mad cool though. I met Dee Brown, Robert Parish, Mo Vaughn, Matt Hasselback was on my highschool's rival team. Met him in highschool.
38410, RE: Sports Celebs you've met or kicked it with.......
Posted by douglass park, Thu Apr-06-06 11:36 AM
Dante Jones-NFL
Roy Williams-Cowboys
Stacey King-NBA
Joe Bowden-NFL
Spencer Tillman-NFL
Kareem Abdul Jabaar-NBA
Barry Switzer
Butch Huskey-MLB
38411, Some pro-wrestlers, bodybuilders, MMA guys
Posted by bigkarma, Thu Apr-06-06 12:26 PM
I used to work out a Lee Haney's Animal Kingdom and at the Obake Fight School.

Obake FS was co-owned by Bill Goldberg and MMA coach Tim Cataflo, so a ton a pro-wrestlers and MMA guys would come through and train.

Lee Haneys'a attracted a ton of celebs. I've worked out with Haney; Carl Lewis; Mr. O , Ronnie Coleman; Jamal Anderson; 'Nique and a few others. I met Holyfield there, Hulk Hogan & Vince McMahon (they were training together), Tiny Lister (Deebo).



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38412, Does Bam Margera count?
Posted by KnowOne, Thu Apr-06-06 01:04 PM
n/m
38413, I gave a high five to Kobe's right hand once
Posted by LA2Philly, Thu Apr-06-06 05:04 PM
It was his rookie year and my friends dad had gotten some great seats from his boss that night at the forum, turns out they had one extra so he called me up. They let us in the tunnel area after the game because his dad's company was close with the laker organization, and I saw Kobe, and said my hellos to him, and told him to keep doing his thing.

I also saw Big Shot Robert at Burbank airport the summer after our 2nd ring. I didnt wanna say anything because I realized how many cats had already bugged him and he prob just wanted to get back to texas and his family. He was wearking purple jeans though, as ive always said: Its Robert's world, and we are just living in it.
38414, Bill Russell
Posted by colonelk, Thu Apr-06-06 05:36 PM
When he was stumping for Bill Bradley in 2000 and I was working for the campaign.
38415, randall cunningham, herschel walker....myself...
Posted by low2behold, Thu Apr-06-06 06:48 PM
38416, kevin garnett, juwan howard, cliff floyd
Posted by temps2020, Thu Apr-06-06 10:18 PM
garnett was cool. i met him at the nike summer all star camp. my dad is a chicago tribune sports journalist and he was covering the camp. garnett was in the stands with a bunch of kids surrounding him just joking around. i went up and asked for an autograph (i was probably in middle school or a freshman in high school). he starting quizzing me on where he was from, what his height was, just messing around. i knew the answers cuz i was looking at the roster and bios the media gets. he was surprised i knew, cracked a few jokes and gave me an autograph.

met juwan in high school several times. my dad did multiple stories on him. also met cliff floyd as a senior in hs before a cubs game. he was being honored as an hs athlete of the year by the tribune.


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38417, PEERLESS PRICE SIGNED MY HAT
Posted by will_5198, Fri Apr-07-06 01:55 AM
I HELPED HIM PICK UP HIS GATORADE