I talked Rockets on ESPN 97.5′s Game Day yesterday morning. If you missed it, you can access the podcast here.
Here is my writeup for ESPNLosAngeles on Blake Griffin’s subpar performance last night.
Now, to the actual game:
I went an hour early last night to ask that very question above. When I reached the visitor’s lockerroom, I was told that neither Blake, CP3, nor Jordan took questions prior to the game. I then wasted the next hour on my phone downloading apps I’ll never use.
The man in the photo above is Houston Texans linebacker Connor Barwin. Yes, he was really dressed like that. You can’t tell from the picture but his jeans were also rolled up nearly to around the knee.
Barwin arrived at some point in the third quarter. The section immediately came alive, almost as if there was a professional basketball game going on at that same time. He arrived with a friend, a younger gentlemen probably in his early twenties who looked to weigh about 110 lbs. The sight of the pair was almost cartoonish, especially with Barwin attired in full homeless garb.
They made their way all the way down to near the floor…only to be rebuffed by the usher! If a guy that played a large role in bringing football back to this town can’t nab a free seat, then noone can.
The pair then made their way back up, only to be recognized by even more people. At one point while Barwin climbed the stairs, he even did what seemed to be some variant of one of his sack celebrations. Barwin appeared to be inebriated.
For the next ten minutes, he then posed for pictures in the aisle with fans flocking like ants. At one moment, suddenly, he disappeared, and I feared the worst, only to realize he was standing literally a foot behind me, posing with some Marines.
I like the end where he kind of looks at me blankly. I had more with Paul, but that will go in a separate post on the game itself, to be published probably later tonight.
As seen above, Blake Griffin has this dry sense of humor where he almost always seems to be struggling to keep a straight face , holding back a smile, through his interviews.
