Earlier today, I wrote about how I used to dream up scenes from a Real World-type reality show for athletes. Courtesy of ESPN, what follows could easily be a storyline from one of those episodes. What happens when locker rooms start getting real…
↵One roommate’s prank goes a little too far:
↵↵↵A former Nuggets ball boy, Laquan Johnson, got into the club’s locker room, took Kenyon Martin’s car keys and filled the player’s Range Rover with buttered popcorn. The car had a white interior.
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The other roommate flips out and threatens, nay, guarantees physical retaliation:
↵↵↵“That ain’t no [expletive] joke,” Martin said. “I’m going to find out who did it … put my [expletive] hands on one of y’all. I’m going to put my hands on whoever did it. You better believe that. It’s [expletive] personal. You better believe it.”
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And suddenly, the whole house is threatened:
↵↵↵“How ‘bout if I don’t play in the playoffs until somebody tells me who did it,” Martin said more than once.
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Time for a house meeting, y'all.
↵ ↵And on a serious note, you gotta love that, more than once, he threatened to sabotage the entire team because of his Range Rover. The car did have white interior…