Hotel Manager that host visiting NBA teams here.

We have bed extenders in our property to accommodate those extra tall players. Some NBA teams do request that the hotel has bed extenders available upon request.

Some players do use them, some don’t.

EDIT: Thank you for the award!

this is a legit good question wtf now i’m picturing the man in fetal position after he drops 40

Wemby idk, but nba players stay at 5 star hotels that have contracts with Bucks, 76ers, etc bc they’re near the arena + extremely high quality. I’m sure that a part of the contract is supplying beds big enough for they players

It’s gotta be diagonal

The team brings with a magician who saws him in half at bed time, then puts him together in the morning.

I’ve seen this a bunch of times, it doesn’t even take very long.

feet be dangling.

In a recovery pod like Goku and Vegeta on Namek

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/13ldzdr/do_nba_teams_travel_with_super_sized_mattresses/

He doesn’t that’s why he started to slow down at the end of the month. Dude was probably sleeping like a cone head standing up. 🤣

you worried about that man sleeping. how does he take a shower once he gets back to the hotel. yeah i get after the game they proably have showers in the arenas, But what about after going out after the game and you want to wash the club off of you before you assume your sleeping fetal position.

My assumption is he brings a shower attachment but I would love to know.

More importantly is how does he sleep on the plane?

Bro be looking like Buddy the Elf on some beds.

Like a bat

I thought this was more common knowledge than it is- but hotels contract with NBA teams and have rooms with huge mattresses, and usually higher ceiling heights.

I’ve stayed in one of these rooms, it’s comical how big things are. bed, chairs, shower, ceiling, etc.

Usually they have these rooms on a separate, secure floor as well. It’s a pretty cool accomodation.

NBA inside stuff did a feature with Mutombo on the road. IIRC he used to put a chair at the end of the bed so his feet wouldn’t dangle. And the shower seemed to be the biggest issue. He said bending down to reach the shower head would cause cramping

league have deals with hotels in each city where they have extra big beds

part of the CBA agreement “to have extra-long beds available to them in each hotel.”

I heard they just bring your mom’s bed and turn it sideways for him.

I heard he hangs by his feet from the ceiling and sleeps like a Bat.

Since joining the Spurs he gained the ability to curl into a ball like an armadillo

NBA teams frequent hotels that can cater to their needs. I remember an ESPNl arrive a few years back where they did a behind the scenes on a particular hotel that rod teams used. This particular hotel had beds that were almost 8ft long and bathrooms that blood accomodate a 7 footer.

Off topic but who remembers Shaq’s big ass super man bed from MTV Cribs ?

Wemby is from Europe, so he knows Pythagoras –> he sleeps diagonally.

He folds himself in half, and then folds himself in half one more time

Pretty sure he just finds some 6’11” thot and spends the night at her place.

My direct sources have told me they have a bed extender that he travels with

I wonder how the hotels accommodates Wilt who was a notorious orgy haver.

Can you imagine his assistants talking to the hotel ?

“Yes he’s 7 feet tall but the bed also needs to accommodate 3 hoes. “

They fly in specially modified airplanes to accommodate their height.

how does wby sit on a toilet? some are pretty small.

Most NBA teams stay at the same 1-2 hotels in most cities - for example, in Minneapolis I think most teams stay at either the Lofton (formerly Loews) right across the street from Target Center, or the Four Seasons.

These hotels usually have a floor specifically meant to host NBA teams, where the rooms have custom king beds with extra long 96 inch (8 feet) mattresses.

Most people won’t have seen these rooms because the hotels are expensive to begin with, these specific rooms are even more expensive because they’re usually on some kind of upgraded “exec” level, and during the season they’re often being used anyway (keep in mind that during road trips, a lot of teams don’t have time for it to be worth flying home even if they have a couple days between games, so they’re staying at the hotels even when it’s not a game day).

I did randomly get upgraded to a room with one of these beds once, doesn’t make much of a difference for the vast majority of people but it was a ridiculously long bed.

On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies

Fetal position

Excellent question: this is the type of content I’m here for.

And frankly this kind of discussion would be the sort of discussion I’d be interested in hearing on player podcasts. What life is like for their very unique circumstances that its listeners would otherwise be able to know. I’m sure it sucks for Wemby but who knows. I’m sure it was way worse for Wilt (which is maybe why he stayed up all night, if his numbers were even remotely accurate)

Hey, I actually asked this question to him when I saw him at Costco in South Sacramento. He was buying an air fryer, 20 pack of top ramen noodles and the gallon of cheese balls. He’s an executive member and he was able to get in at 9am, instead of getting a cart, he got the orange flatbed, thought that was interesting.

He brings a rope and hangs it on whatever he can find on the ceiling and ties it to his feet and sleeps like a bat

Wemby doesn’t sleep. At night, he reads books, then teleports into his spaceship to train with Predators. At dawn, he teleports again, straight to the gym for practice. Wemby’s style.

I worked at 5 star hotel that would host NBA teams on the road. Whenever the spurs would come they would specifically request a “bed extender” for Wemby. This would basically entail us placing a rollaway bed with a pillow topper at the base of the king bed and we would make the bed nicely to where it looked seamless. Can’t speak to the overall comfortability, but we never got a complaint.

What about showers? Do hotels rooms have shower heads higher than Wemby’s head? Does he have to crouch to shampoo his head?

Offseason posts are here early this year I see.

Probably fetal position yeah. I’d imagine he’s used to it for his entire adult life. I’m only 6’5 and this sometimes comes up when I stay with friends and need to sleep on a couch or something. Fetal all day

Tall man here. Nice hotels have bed extenders.

I don’t think anyone should sleep on a road tbh

He just sleeps with your mother, anywhere

Roy Hibbert used to bring his own XL mat on the road with the Pacers

If I was the spurs, I would have a 10 foot long mattress and bed frame on the plane at all times, then have someone assemble it for him before he sleeps.

Why would he sleep on the road? You think they’d at least get him a cot.

Anyone else picturing Michael Scott curling up on that little bench at the foot of his bed

I know in San Francisco the hotel they use, the Omni I think, has like 12ft ceilings. Even the shower heads are higher than normal.

Ages ago I saw a NBA on NBC segment that followed Mutumbo’s travel routine and it was the hotel showers that were the biggest issue. I guess at the stadiums the shower heads are higher.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he deals with neck pain from time to time since he has to hunch over a lot.

NBA players have great accommodations wherever they travel to, so I would assume that would include bigger beds and taller showers. I mean they go to 29 other places at most, so I’m sure the teams and the NBA can manage that

Curled up around the latest release from Brandon Sanderson.

Picture Michael Scott sleeping on the ottoman at the end of the bed in ‘Dinner Party’.

Silly humans, he just beams back up to his ship and sleeps on his hyper nano fiber alien hammock that hangs from the ceiling

In general this is true for a lot of NBA players. Not just wemby.

He gets beamed back up to the mother ship at night 👽

Admittedly I am not an expert and I don’t know Wemby personally, but I would assume laying down

Lying down.

With a pillow and a blanket. Fun fact: he can reach both curbs on most highways