Translated from French
« I was thinking: “If I get out and the guy driving something like that gets out too, he’s going to kill me.” »
Danilo Gallinari asked about the most absurd purchase he’s seen from an NBA player:
« There were a lot. But the first one that comes to mind is when I arrived in Denver for my first season. I was playing with this character… We can name him, anyway he’d be happy for me to tell the story: Birdman.
He later played in Miami, won the title with LeBron. And by the way, we mostly remember the character Birdman, but he was also a really good player. He had problems, especially with drugs, he was away from the NBA for two years… but he was really a good player.
One day, I arrive at practice. I’m stopped at a light just before the Pepsi Center and I hear someone honking behind me. You know those truck horns that make a huge noise? Something like that.
I look behind me and I see a kind of truck… but turned into a monster truck. It wasn’t even just a monster truck with four huge wheels: it was a whole truck, with four gigantic wheels and flames painted on both sides.
And he kept honking at me. He’d probably recognized me from behind and he honked at me through three red lights in a row. He kept going until we reached the parking lot.
Me, I was thinking: “If I get out and the guy driving something like that gets out too, he’s going to kill me. I don’t even know who it is, but he’s going to kill me.”
I finally arrive at the parking lot, thinking that at least there, I’m safe. And then: “Damn, this guy followed me all the way to the parking lot!”
I get out… and it was Birdman. For three red lights, he’d been honking at me from that fully customized monster truck.
I ask him: “But what’s this thing?”
And him: “Oh yeah, that? It’s one of my ten cars.”
As soon as we got out of the cars, heading to the locker room, he showed me the ten cars.
He was the only one among us who lived almost an hour from Denver. He lived almost at the start of the mountains. His house had four floors. His basement was almost as big as my house here in Miami, and my house is pretty big anyway.
He had a whole underground floor dedicated solely to guns. He was passionate about guns. To get in, he had to use his fingerprint: the door would open and behind it, there was this huge space filled with guns.
And on one of his cars, he’d even had two rifles mounted on the sides that could swivel like this… I don’t know if they could actually shoot, but he’d had these two rifles mounted directly on the sides of the car.
That’s the kind of stuff Birdman did. »
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