What are some crazy things some NBA players have done or said that most fans don’t remember?
Just some crazy stuff you can’t believe people don’t mention more.
Like for it’s definitely Dennis Rodman going to Detroit’s arena with a shotgun.
I feel like people forgot KCP played for the lakers while on work release from jail and couldn’t travel to away games
(All the ankle monitor pics are photoshopped apparently)
Lakers fans wanted KCP sent back to jail after 2021 playoffs but then blame Pelinka for trading him lmao
Tbf, I have seen that behavior on other teams. Fans, especially fairweather fans, want to trade everyone and their moms as soon as a player have a bad game 😅
The new age Ruben Patterson
Stephon Marbury uploaded of video of himself eating Vaseline 🤧
on justinTV before it became Twitch. legend
Bro what
Crazy it’s been 16 years.
Told myself not to click on the video and I did it anyway
You have no idea how many people eat Vicks when they are sick. Big Hispanic thing.
*Chinese cultural icon Stephon Marbury, so bizarre the dude lived in China for like a decade+
I heard China truly loved him.
Why’d he do that
He had a sore throat, and he’s old school.
Fun fact, the inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of it a day. Dude made it to 96
Now he’ll live to almost 100.
It’s sterile and he likes the taste
Haha, I was on the Realgm Knick forum when that happened and it was nuts.
Jayson Williams shot and killed someone with a shotgun at a charity get together. Basically got off with 2 1⁄2 years for it.
He also waited 45 minutes to call 911, wiped off the gun, put the victim’s fingerprints on the gun to make it appear a suicide, discarded his clothes, jumped in his swimming pool, and lied to investigators.
He should not be a free man
Yep. He’s now running a program to help 18 year olds. Crazy the video popped up on my feed the other day. Link
I thought you meant White Chocolate for a whole minute
I was scared for a second
This is it. Jayson Williams was an All Star level player, he looked like he would have a career in media and then this happened
Yep, he was a personality at the time. Bit of a jokester and pretty easy to envision him on ESPN/TNT post-career. Understandably, that all evaporated after the incident.
Wow I’ve usually heard of every scandal or controversial thing an NBA player has done, but this one never heard of
He just aimed a shotgun at his driver, killed him and then didn’t even get convicted for 8 years? What the hell is this story, what happened here!
It was a big deal at the time, but also lost in between 9⁄11 and the Great Recession. His original acquittal was all over the news, and if I remember, the trial was televised, but by the time he was convicted, it had all been swept under the rug.
Doesn’t help that his career was good but largely forgettable.
Of yep, of course, pretty much anything unrelated to the Middle east between 2001-04 just gets forgotten about.
He spent a ton of money on lawyers and purposely delayed as much as he could. Crime in Sports podcast did an episode on him. Crazy case
The story was he was carrying the shotgun around, apparently playing with it, and it went off.
So he shot Marvin in the face?
Exactly but he didn’t call the Wolf. So he got caught.
Another crazy layer to the onion is that a few years before he was on an episode of Cribs and he was playing with a shotgun willy nilly while showing off his house. I remember seeing that and thinking about how uncomfortable I would be if I was around someone handling a gun like that.
“According to testimony, Williams, who had a skeet-shooting range on his 65-acre estate, took a loaded shotgun from a cabinet in the master bedroom. He turned, uttered an expletive at Christofi, possibly in jest, and then snapped the weapon shut, and it went off, according to testimony.
Christofi was struck in the chest and died within minutes.
Williams dropped to his knees and wailed, “Oh my God! Oh my God!” and “My life is over,” according to witnesses.
Witnesses testified that Williams wiped the gun down, then put it in Christofi’s hands. The former basketball star stripped naked, pushed his clothes into the arms of a friend, told him to get rid of them, and took a swim in his indoor pool before police arrived.” https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2004/05/01/ex-nba-star-acquitted-manslaughter/31664109007/
Man’s got the Klutch PR I’ve been following the nba for over 20 years and had no idea
Similarly, former Laker Rick Fox was convicted August 17, 1997 - Attempted rape, assault.
Sentenced to 12 years.
Paroled early to talk with young prisoners about his life……
Lebron making Nike consficate the tape when his ass got dunked on by a local player during the summer
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Fun fact: both LeBron Jameses’ moms have been banged by one of their teammates.
Was that ever confirmed?
Shit, how did that rumour even start?
Probably from Delonte banging Bron’s mom
his name was Jordan Crawford
Jordan > Lebron
That was future NBA Player of the Week Jordan Crawford
I remember this. It was such a big deal at the time.
Nike probably did that themselves to be fair
LeBron didn’t do that, NIKE did that because they didn’t want it to be a big viral moment in 2008 or whenever
LeBron had nothing to do with it Nike just didn’t want their next big star to get “embarrassed”
Nike would’ve (and probably) did this for Jordan or Kobe
Bro lebrons guys were confiscating phones🤣🤣
This shit was so funny when it went down
No Lebron did do that, it was a Nike camp and he told the Nike reps to take the tapes from the guys. But Nike took the fall.
You’re forgetting this was 06-10 Lebron, this was a very very insecure player. Which might be weird to think of now, but he was back then. This + his refusal to do the dunk contest defs made him look weird at the time to many.
2011 changed him quite a bit.
Miller said he had been filming all day and had his tapes confiscated only after Crawford’s dunk over James. “LeBron called Lynn over and told him something,” Miller told CBSSports.com. “That’s how I knew his name was Lynn. LeBron said, ‘Hey, Lynn. Come here.’ “ Minutes later, Miller said Merritt demanded his tape. “There’s nothing I can think of besides LeBron just not wanting it online,” Miller told CBSSports.com. “It’s a good story to tell people, I guess. But then again, I’m kind of pissed. I lost my tape.” A spokesman for James said he had no comment.
Miller said he had been filming all day and had his tapes confiscated only after Crawford’s dunk over James.
“LeBron called Lynn over and told him something,” Miller told CBSSports.com. “That’s how I knew his name was Lynn. LeBron said, ‘Hey, Lynn. Come here.’ “
Minutes later, Miller said Merritt demanded his tape.
“There’s nothing I can think of besides LeBron just not wanting it online,” Miller told CBSSports.com. “It’s a good story to tell people, I guess. But then again, I’m kind of pissed. I lost my tape.”
A spokesman for James said he had no comment.
I was around (in high school) when it happened and I’ve literally never heard it blamed on Nike until today lmao.
Cuz the guy above works for Nike and is protecting lebrons image
Paul Pierce getting stabbed 11 times in a night club
Think it was during the summer and he was ready to go when the season started and averaged 20+ points and got an All Star nod.
He was the only Celtic to play all 82 games that season lmao
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Pierce tough guy creds took a dive after he went out to take a shit on a fucking wheelchair during the finals.
Paul Pierced
By Benzino apparently, at least that was the rumour back then
The Suns players AND coaches all gangbanging an OF model a few years ago
Throatgoat how could we forget
aint no better way to team bond
Don’t forget about Steve Nash’s wife!
Tell me more! I hadn’t heard about this!
He filed for divorce the day after their baby was born.
Remind me of Miami Heat waiting for Spo divorce before signing him to a mega contracts.
the rumor at the time was his wife gave birth to a black baby, and that Jason Richardson was the father. No idea if that’s true
Lol you can Google the kid. He definitely isnt black.
Nash’s baby came out black. It was revealed his team mates had been laying the meat to his wife.
Barbosa and Jason Richardson were both accused. Unsure who turned out to be the father.
The kid is clearly not black
People are acting like you can’t just Google him lol. He isn’t black in the slightest and looks like Steve nash
Rumor. Not a fact.
Wtf I missed this one
We all remember it, but still crazy that Arenas and Crittenton pulled guns on each other in the locker room.
Those two, Nick Young, and young Javale McGee in the same locker room had to be the most impossible position for any coach to be in.
And then Caron Butler went from being on that team to the 2010-2011 Mavs the next season with all of their grownup vets which had to feel like a different world.
Wasn’t Deshawn Stevenson on that team too?
Gilbert “I bring guns to” Arenas is still my favourite nickname of all time.
DRose cut his arm badly while in bed with an apple and knife. Apparently.
I think cutting an apple in bed falls under so stupid it has to be true.
i couldnt even imagine coming up with that as an excuse, its so convoluted lol
Fortunately he was one and done with fruit knife attacks. I think at the time people were mostly just glad he wasn’t into motorcycles.
It’s logistically a terrible idea to cut fruit in bed because you don’t have anything to use as leverage. Bed fruits should be things like grapes and strawberries that you don’t have to cut. Maybe oranges but then you have to deal with the peel. Bananas are too phallic to eat in bed.
We men.
You can assume.
Also got caught having another kid take his SAT for him, and got Memphis punished
That seems like such an old-timer kind of scheme now.
I’ve plunged a blade into my palm cutting an avocado, because I am a dumbass, so this is plausible to me
I believe it was his forearm and bad enough to require 10 stitches. So more like a defensive wound. From rolling in bed with an apple and knife. As one does.
Then there’s the time him and his buddies followed a drunk woman home, badgered her to let them in for a while, they get in somehow, then they all do “sex belt” stuff.
One time when I worked at Jersey Mike’s Jared Dudley came in and just ordered tuna salad in a tub. It was disgusting. Never looked at the guy the same way.
At least he wasn’t mixing two soups together
Charles Barkley threw a man through a plate glass window. When asked if he regretted his actions he said “Yes, I regret that we were on the first floor.”
I feel like Charles himself brings this up often enough lol he holds the same sentiment now
Great line though
Ron Artest telling a reporter about how he witnessed a guy getting violently murdered at a park when he was a kid and the reporter went and dug around and confirmed that the story was indeed true.
Every time someone clowns on that comment, I google and find the news story to show them.
He is one of the best examples of someone who had truly just a mountain of trauma that clearly affected his behavior, and then subsequently put in loads of work to heal from it and become a better person.
By breaking off a table leg and throwing it through the guy’s heart, no less
Yeah, I left out the details on purpose.
Incredibly horrifying.
LeBron James [2007] - “With teammates you have to be trustworthy, and if you’re gay and you’re not admitting that you are, then you are not trustworthy”
If you are on Nbacirclejerk this certainly has not been forgotten
Steph Curry saying he doesn’t believe moon landing happened lol
He later tried to explain himself with quotes like these.
Inquisitive minds ask inquisitive questions and obviously that’s one that’s very polarizing in terms of where you stand on that. Obviously I was joking when I was talking on the podcast. I was silently protesting how stupid it was that people actually took that quote and made it law as, ‘Oh my God, he’s a fake moon landing truther,’ whatever you want to call it, yada, yada, yada. So I was silently protesting that part about it, how the story took a life of its own.
Inquisitive minds ask inquisitive questions and obviously that’s one that’s very polarizing in terms of where you stand on that.
Obviously I was joking when I was talking on the podcast. I was silently protesting how stupid it was that people actually took that quote and made it law as, ‘Oh my God, he’s a fake moon landing truther,’ whatever you want to call it, yada, yada, yada. So I was silently protesting that part about it, how the story took a life of its own.
My favorite part of this saga is that Obama called him afterwards and gave him a stern lecture on the responsibility he has to use his platform for good lol
Based Barack tbh
The world would be a much better place if everyone was personally sternly lectured by Obama
Yeah I remember when he sternly lectured Lebron when the NBA was getting ready to strike during the BLM protests.
Imagine getting scolded by Obama. I don’t think I’d ever get over it
I was silently protesting
By speaking on a podcast obviously
He was protesting how stupid the statements he was currently making were.
This all makes great sense
bro took a page outta kyries book with that explanation
Tyler Herro also doesnt believe in the moon landing
His was even worse, just straight up said I don’t believe in anything before 1950 or something.
Which includes the first officially recognised NBA games lol
It’s worse, he straight up doesn’t believe in history (in his own words, idek what that could entail)
Feel like most NBA fans don’t really remember the Colangelo saga with Philly. Really the last decade+ of Sixers basketball has been a fever dream.
Find a new slant
Those were normal sized collars.
That. Jimmy butler minny saga. And the Dallas Deandre Jordan were my top 3 fav saga
So many good memes
My roommate who doesn’t follow basketball but follows other sports was asking me about the KD leaks and I had to tell him about Colangelo and how the NBA weirdly has a history of burners being big news
Does Steph currys wife saying she sends him feet picks on the road to satisfy him count?
lol this reminded me of Gabriel Union saying she ate D Wade’s ass
That’s another classic. She said he does it so I do it in return. She could’ve just kept that to herself lol
Just saying, the only reason a man would judge another man for getting their ass eaten is because they’ve never had their ass eaten.
Tony Parker cheating on Eva Longoria with Brent Barry’s wife
That’s guys a real jerk
It’s wild bc before this I feel like he was generally viewed as a stand up guy. It felt so out of left field when the news broke
Didn’t Pop try to trade him because of it?
He seriously considered it.
remember when embiid almost killed lonzo ball lol. Lonzo actually my goat for dodging that.
https://streamable.com/ym4wki
Reminds me of the Jermaine O’Neal missed punch at the malice in the Palace - would’ve been murder if it had landed
Bro Lonzo is insanely chill. He casually dodges the punch then moves on like nothing happened
Missed shots are his specialty.
Suprised Draymond didn’t take notes on this one tbh
There used to be a message board in the early Internet where women would gossip on NBA players. Who would cheat on their wives (all of them) how they are in bed, etc etc. there was such good shit in there and I’m so mad I can’t find it anymore it was literally a site for groupies lol
Anyway I randomly remembered someone posting a picture on there of DJ Augustine getting a little freaky with some dude
Edit: it wasn’t lipstick alley, it was specifically for the NBA (maybe other sports too) literally every single player had their own forum. I used to spend hours on there looking up every random player I could think of and reading about whatever freaky shit they were in to.. The site had a generic inconspicuous name like talk-sports or something like that, and this was probably between 2004-2010
I’m choosing to believe that about DJ Augustin purely because I’ve always thought he looks a little too well manicured for a ball player
I remember specifically that the OP thought it was Deron Williams, but the groupie obviously didn’t know ball, so I had to jump in and let them know that it was actually the former Bob Cousy award winning DJ Augustin
Alright we need an investigative team to find this
8-year vet and NBA champion with the Bulls Brian Williams changed his name to Bison Dele, retired a year later at age 29 and forfeited a 5yr-$36M contract as the Pistons’ highest paid player at the time, then a few years after a story came out that he had gone missing after going on a boat trip with his brother, his brother’s gf, and a boat captain. His brother was later found forging cheques under Dele’s name, this led to investigators finding the boat with bullet holes in it and concluded the brother killed all 3 and threw them overboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_Dele
Yea that was my first thought too, we’ll never know what actually happened.
To clarify Rodman going to the area with a shotgun, he found out his wife was sleeping with a teammate. It was most likely Vinnie Johnson as the rumor goes but that was never confirmed. He was planning suicide and Chuck Daly talked him out of it.
Thabo Sefolosha effectively had his season ended by NYPD when they broke his right leg in an altercation in 2015. He was eventually acquitted of all charges.
He also got a settlement from NYPD btw.
IIRC Sterling Brown got tased for no reason by Milwaukee cops too
Marv Albert got in trouble for biting a woman and forcing her to give oral. He was also accused a different time of biting another woman and wearing women’s lingerie.
Also Dwight Howard tried to break into nsync’s chris kirkpatrick’s house to bang pornstar mary carey.
Marquis Daniels for wearing a custom chain in the shape of his own head.
I was a kid when the Marv Albert thing happened and definitely lost some significant amount of innocence with all the articles I read about it
tf athletes are different man
‘You’re a bitch, you’re a bitch, you’re a bitch, your mom’s a bitch.’
-Kelly Oubre Jr
Eddie Griffin got into a car accident driving drunk and masturbating to porn. It isn’t very fun because he had legit substance issues and died a year later.
One that still is fun is Lou Williams had two girlfriends at the same time, but not those two, mind ya business.
And I believe he died being hit by a train. Which definitely makes you think he did that on purpose. Poor guy
He was drunk when he died and you’re probably right that he did it on purpose. Drive through a barrier and hit a moving freight train.
And they get along like I’m looouuuuu
Lebron once flashed his penis while adjusting his pants during a nationally televised game
It was the NBA Finals too lmao
Kobe dissing Andrew Bynum in public as part of his attempts to get traded, or get Lakers to trade for Jason Kidd. Dude was pretty disruptive back then.
Kobe walked so guys like Butler and Harden could run
if Harden won even 1 ring for Houston, much less 5 like Kobe, he could say whatever he wants
Harden would’ve won 3 titles with Shaq too tbh
Nah kobe played defense and showed up in the playoffs.
But you too young to have seen that i guess
Kobe got more rings without Shaq than Harden in his career
We might make a lot of money, but we also spend a lot of money.” — Patrick Ewing
He also got in trouble for getting head in a strip club.
Ha. Man I Miss the 90s.
Second favorite line is Motumbo walking into a strip club
“Who wants to sex Motumbo”
He did that at parties at Georgetown when he went there!
- Dennis Scott basketball camp meltdown
- Qyntel Woods was pulled over for speeding and the police officer smelled marijuana in his car. He asked for identification and Woods gave him his rookie basketball card as ID
- Charles Barkley being racist against an Angola player who elbowed him during the 1992 Olympics “Somebody hits me, I’m going to hit them back. Even if it looks like they haven’t eaten in a couple weeks. I thought he was going to pull a spear on me”
- Everyone remembers when Ricky Davis or Andray Blatch pulled shenanigans in order to secure a triple double. But Anthony Bowie of the Orlando Magic did it first. Bowie called a time out against the own wishes of his coach Brian Hill in order to draw out a play where he would receive the ball and immediately pass to a teammate for his 10th assist. The opposing coach Doug Collins was pissed off and pulled his team off the floor before they could shake hands.
That Barkley one is hilarious and in no way racist if that is all he said.
Was it Lou Williams who broke quarantine in the Bubble for chicken wings?
That wasn’t what they made it to be. He was given a pass to attend a funeral and got magic city wings on the way back which broke protocol. In hindsight it wasn’t even bad at all. At the time - rules was rules
Lou’s was nowhere near the worst. Danuel House had at least one woman (who wasn’t his wife) snuck into the bubble.
Jamal Murray…
Dwight Howard had to miss games because he got his back blown out
I remember a story of Dwight’s early years that he was a hardcore Christian and he would advocate for the NBA logo to be changed to a cross.
Jason “White Chocolate” Williams said some real messed up stuff, pantomimed shooting at, and was a general asshole to some Chinese fans in attendance of a Kings game.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/williams-apologizes-for-slurs-1.260572
It’s been reported, I can’t find the article now, that Nike had a really big ad campaign for him that they cancelled.
Dennis Scott telling a bunch of kids at his camp “Don’t ask me for my autograph, ask me about the rage that’s inside of me” with OutKast playing in the background
People talk about Colorado but they forget or post-2016 fans don’t even know that Kobe said a homophobic slur on national tv about a ref
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13075858
There’s a YouTube video as well if you search for it
Then Joakim Noah did it like 2 weeks later lol
Paul Pierce shitting himself
Big Baby hitting the game winner and launching that kid out of the way 😂
he said a couple hit him up after the game and paid him $5k to cuckkold his wife lmao
Steve Nash’s baby
The story is like a soap opera
That time James Harden told a bunch of Chinese kids at an Adidas event that Daryl Morey is a liar and that he will never play for a team that has him.
Kobe is a rapist and it doesn’t get brought up enough
Kyrie is antisemitic
Gobert being a right winger, antivaxxer and endorsing a book by the French Andrew Tate doesn’t get brought up enough
Spreewells’s concerns about feeding his family on only 14 mil.
Ron Artest once took a job at Circuit City during the offseason, so he could get the employee discount.
Kevin Johnson got hernia after lifting teammate Oliver Miller in 92. Then in 93, KJ dislocated his shoulder after Chuck gave him a celebratory bearhug.
Also forgotten were the unsavory things he got up to while mayor of sacramento
I can’t believe I got through all of this and nobody said All-NBA First Team selection Latrell Sprewell choking out his coach while on the Warriors
Popovich used to spit some crazy racist dogwhistles in the 2000’s, glazing Europeans and how classier they are compared to African American style of basketball, how they were “brought up right and value the right things”
Steve Kerr not being racist is holding him back from the GOAT tier
Err…have you heard of his son Nick?
Anyone who was around to see Pop defending Bruce Bowen’s antics and the general playstyle of those earlier Spurs teams would never think of him as the paragon of “the beautiful game” or ethical basketball or whatever.
Genuinely curious, what’s the source for that? I googled and didn’t find anything.
Phil Jackson 1000% said some wildly out of pocket racist shit back in the day. I hadn’t seen the Pop stuff. Just wanna make sure we aren’t getting those mixed up. Everything I can find with Pop in googling is sorta the opposite of what youre saying, what’s yours source?
I don’t think it really gets brought up anymore that the Clippers practically held DeAndre Jordan hostage after he signed with the Mavericks in 2014 (or 15, can’t quite remember) and just refused to leave him be until he agreed to back out of the deal and re-sign with LA.
For memory, I think pretty much all the players and staff went to his house and refused to leave, also refusing to let him leave. Kind of a fucked up tactic.
I think my favorite part of that saga was when all the clippers were tweeting emojis and then old man Paul Pierce tweeted an image of an emoji lol
Dominique Wilkins and Deion Sanders had dudes moving dope for them in Atlanta back in the day. One of the guys from my neighborhood growing up did some time from being involved with it.
They worked with a tax lawyer named Fredric Tokars who helped them launder the dope money through their clubs. When the walls started closing in the lawyer ended up killing his wife and got locked up. Nique and Deion were out of Atlanta the same year which helped curb the scrutiny.
John Havlicek left the Celtics and went and drove a taxi. He worked around Boston before going back to play for the Celtics again.
I don’t think that’s right. Dave Cowens left the Celtics and worked odd jobs like selling pine trees and one night drove his friend’s cab. But, can’t find any mention of Havlicek ever driving a cab. Only mention is the Cleveland Browns offered Havlicek a spot on their taxi squad. Equivalent of today’s practice squad but back then the Browns owner paid these players as Yellow Cab employees. However Havlicek didn’t sign the offer.
Bison Dele (formerly Brian Williams) is presumed to have been murdered by his brother, Miles Dabord, in July 2002 while on a sailing trip near Tahiti. Dele, his girlfriend, and a boat captain were killed and thrown overboard; Dabord died later in a California hospital from an apparent, intentional insulin overdose.
The brother’s story was that he and his brother got into an argument and that Dele’s girlfriend had been accidentally hit and died when her head struck part of the boat. The captain then wanted to report her death, which is why Dele killed him. Dabord then shot his brother in self-defense, threw the bodies overboard, and fled back to the U.S.
The bodies of Dele, the gf and captain were never recovered from the sea, send shivers down my spine.
Not the craziest but in the early twitter days Anthony Morrow’s handle was “BlackBoiPachino” lol
Lattrell Sprewell had a family to feed
The Portland TrailBlazers used to be so notorious for getting in trouble that they were nicknamed the Jailblazers.
Jordan Clarkson saying that humans used to be giants. So big, that we could keep dinosaurs in zoos. Which is why dinosaur bones tend to be found in groups
The Jailblazers need their own section here. Let’s see how many I can recall. I’m no particular order…
Damon Stoudemire was busted, going through a metal detector in an airport, with over an ounce of herb…wrapped in ALUMINUM FOIL. 🙄
Stoudemire and Sheed were given permission to ride with a buddy back to Portland from Seattle, rather than fly with the team. These three were pulled over, speeding, in a yellow Hummer, in a notoriously racist town, and were busted with herb. 🤦♂️
Qyntel Woods was stopped for a traffic violation and found to have a suspended license and no insurance. When asked for ID he attempted to use his rookie trading card. 🤓
ZBo broke Ruben Patterson’s eye in a fight during practice
Patterson was arrested for sexual assault
Woods was arrested for dog fighting
Police responding to a burgler alarm at Stoudemine’s home found a lb of ganja. Charges dropped due to illegal search.
ZBo was arrested for underage drinking
Sheed threatened and chased after a ref post game. But it was Tim Donaghy after all.