Tupac Shakur Lookalike Attends Celtics Game, Sends Crowd Into A Frenzy
With the hapless Celtics getting crushed by the Golden State Warriors, perhaps the most memorable takeaway from Wednesday's game at Boston Garden was that a man bearing a strong resemblance to Tupac Shakur was in the building.
"Fake Tupac," as he has become known, looks a lot like the late rapper. At Wednesday's game the impersonator donned one of Tupac's trademark bandanas and wore a goatee similar to the one the rapper had. The Tupac lookalike created quite a stir on social media.
With the Celtics down big in the second half, fans began chanting for the Tupac impersonator:
Reporter Jessica Camerato, who has covered the team for various local outlets, told Boston Magazine that the faux Tupac is a regular at Celtic home games, but until Wednesday his presence had not become part of the arena's musical entertainment.
"Tupac look-a-like has been coming to Celtics games for years," Camerato said. "This is first time I can recall, though, they played 'California Love' for him."
3. "I love stuff like this" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-07-14 12:15 PM by Lightfoot
I'm always a sucker for spontaneous acts of public goofiness that are carried out by a group of strangers unified by one trivial purpose. Even the wave never gets old to me.
This reminded me of a story my uncle out in Seattle told me about a Sonics game he attended during the Danny Fortson era. I think it was Matt Geiger* who got into a scuffle with Fortson under the basket, which prompted my uncle to start a "don't mess with our goon" chant. By the time Fortson got himself ejected several minutes and a couple of scuffles later, the better part of the arena was chanting "DON'T MESS WITH OUR GOON!" I loved that.
*Nevermind--Geiger was retired by then. Maybe it was one of those European bammas of the mid-aughts.
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