Yeah it was in August and I posted about in on CF. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=153191 Chuck is a classy guy
I said hey to Jon Barry and asked for an autograph at an Astros game one time, and he b****ed me out... "I'm with my family, at a baseball game, come on man... blah blah". Douche.
Robert Reid was a great guy, met him on one occasion, had him at my house on another (parents). Robert Horry was a really nice guy too and had a very friendly family as well Those are the only two rockets Ive met up close in person
Dream was definitely a nice dude when i met him (3 times)... gracious... always smiling... My idol. Kelvin Cato was actually pretty cool when we asked for his autograph.. he said "Who am I?" before he obliged... wanted to make sure i wasn't just going after the tall black dude. Saw Hayes, Luther, Daniel Ewing, TJ Ford, Jermaine O'Neal, and Stephen A Smith once at a Charity gala thing a while back. TJ was swamped pretty bad, Luther had like 5 ladies around him, Jermaine was with his wife, but Hayes and particularly Daniel Ewing were pretty nice.
I didn't have a chance to be around Rockets games / the guys before about 2002-ish, but I'd have to say that TMac and Francis are two of the less friendly guys I've encountered. (Ironically Francis was my favorite player at one point). The friendliest I've found include Mutombo, Battier, even Alston.. oh, and Steve Novak! Before the Utah series the guy next to me told him to bodycheck someone if he got any playing time and he said he would. He didn't get any PT.
He was at an Astros game with his family. Come on bro. There is a time and a place for everything. You don't bother people when they're with their families.
yao ming is mean. i ran into him in chinatown in houston and he did not even smile. he looked so upset to see me. i took a pic with him and he looked so angry, lol.
Back in like 2001 or 2002, i used to do this workout program at this downtown gym with this guy named James Cooper (anyone know of this guy, he trains pro sports guys, hes super intimidating but nice as can be) and i was a scrawny young guy among all the towering athetic dudes. Robert Horry was in this program, and we'd go to the Rice University stadium to run the stairs, and I would always catch a ride with Horry (dead serious), in his beastly land rover. I didnt know jack **** about pro basketball back then, but i knew about Robert and he was one of the coolest people ive ever met. Good times
Charles Barkley is such a prick in person... Steve Francis was such a friendly guy the first two times I met him. The first of which, he was walking around Randalls in Sugar Land balancing a magazine on top of his head... stopped to give me an autograph, while holding steady with the magazine. Fun times.
That's hilarious. I was a huge Stevie fan but I must have run in to him on the wrong day. It happens.
be it that i work at best buy, i've met many rockets over the years robert horry-nice dude, easy to chat with moochie norris- real nice guy, funny as hell bryce drew- seemed shocked when i recognized him, guess he never get noticed without his name across his back cuttino mobley-real nice dude, funny as hell also kenny thomas-nice as well, not one for small talk kelvin cato-always said he had a bad game and he sucked in the game they just played, dude had the ugliest lincoln navigator i'd ever seen yao ming-nice guy, tall as ****, always came in to buy video games shandon anderson-nice guy, didnt chat with him much walt williams- him and moochie were always together when they came into the store charles barkley-real nice genuine guy, got to go to his retirement party, that was real cool and low key, got to meet his mom and grandma calvin murphy- was kind of a dick when he came in, had that "do you know who i am" type of attitude i'm sure there are more, im drawing a blank right now hakeem came in, but i was at lunch. brian cook was in not too long ago, but i was off, he bought his home theatre set up for his rental house
Hakeem seems nice Battier and brooks are awesome. Tmac and artest were real nice at the heat game. Mike james was also awesome. Asked barkley for an auto graph in person and he just put his shades on and walked off. So he's prob the least friendliest.
Can i get a link to Aaron Brooks FB? I searched aaron brooks in the people section and there's 380 results lol. Wierd, Landry accepted my Twitter request.
Yao seems like he's uncomfortable in public, which can come off as unfriendly. Not all athletes are talkative, outgoing extroverts...
Twitter really isn't that personal, people actually want to add as many people as possible, unlike something more personal like facebook or myspace. To the guy who said they didn't accept his facebook req, maybe it's a fake account, that's why he didnt add you. It's difficult to know when it's raeally there account and when it isnt.
