Robber Changes Mind After He Realizes He’s Robbing an NBA Player

Sixers coach Doug Collins gave the team off on Christmas Eve so his players could enjoy the holiday as they were scheduled to fly to Portland on Christmas Day and practice there later that night. It was on the team’s off day that guard Lou Williams found himself in a little bit of a mess.

While stopped in his car in Manayunk on Christmas Eve, Williams was approached by a man with a gun. The situation was deflated when the gunman recognized Williams and commended him for his work in the community. Williams said he treated the man to a meal at a local fast-food restaurant by giving him some money.

“A guy tried to rob me but decided not to because of whatever I do in the community,” said Williams before the game last night. “He’s a Lou Williams fan so he didn’t rob me.”

Williams said he was driving in his car when the man approached, knocked on the driver’s window and had a gun drawn.

“There’s crime everywhere,” said Williams. “I was debating whether to pull off or help the guy. The gun was already out. He did all the talking and we came up with a solution before I could really say much. I treated him to McDonald’s.”

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TNT’s NBA Opening Day Montage

This is great, because you get to see today’s greats play with legends . . . like Kobe and playing with Magic Jason Terry playing with Rolando Blackmon, and then you get to see today’s greats play against legends like Dirk against Bird and Duncan against Walton.

I was glad to see that the underappreciated Drazen Petrovic was given a little respect in this video.

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Bag of Randomness

  • My wife didn’t understand how I was able to give our kid baths so quickly . . . she obviously haven’t read Cheaper By The Dozen.
  • While eating at the Coppell Chicken Express, I noticed the Coppell male varsity basketball team got their team photo take outside the AAC holding the NBA championship trophy.  That’s pretty cool that the Mavs were willing to let a local team do that.  I hope other local teams got the same opportunity.
  • First World Pain while at Chicken E – having tender just out of the fryer and ready to eat fries . . . I like to eat them together, and having to wait on fried food to cool is an eternity.
  • Extremely deadly Christmas:
  • I didn’t realized that the Texas state senate declared Grapevine the “Christmas Capital of Texas.”
  • I bet being a Christian in Nigeria is MUCH different than being a Christian in Texas.
  • Obama’s job approval ratings are ‘surging’, unemployment is droping, and sales this holiday season have been very high – it’s a long way to November, but the Republicans don’t look like they have anyone that is going to be a real contender.  But like I said, it’s a long way until November.
  • The New York Times took some actors with great films this past year and put them in little famous horror shorts.  For instance, Brad Pitt as the Madman, Rooney Mara as Alex from ‘‘A Clockwork Orange”, Gary Oldman as the Menacing Dummy, and George Clooney as Captain Bligh.  Check it all out here.
  • CBS has a bunch of commercials this holiday season with a nice jingle that went “J-I-N-G-L-E . . . bells.” It’s been stuck in my head non-stop.
  • A horse racing track in Santa Anita is allowing those on site to place bets by a mobile phone app – that’s genius thinking.
  • I caught Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade over the weekend and spent some time reflecting on the spiritual imagery towards the end of the film as Elsa took the grail past the seal, when she was instructed not to.  I wonder if Spielberg and Lucus was trying to cast a parallel with that to Eve and the apple from the tree.
  • I again reflected upon some spiritual imagery on the scene right after that when Indy is hanging on only by his father’s grip trying to reach for the grail, only to be instructed by his father to let go.
  • I always thought that actress that played Elsa would go on to play greater roles.
  • I consider the Last Crusade to be the greatest of the Indiana Jones films, and I refuse to believe the Crystal Skull was ever made.
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