NBA Cares outreach intiatives
This month’s GQ provides the sports fan insights into the private lives of our favorite pro athletes most intimate and tender moments:
“Besides providing security, NBA bodyguards have taken on additional roles in the wake of Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault case. According to a GQ story on NBA groupies, some players are asking friends or bodyguards to stand in and watch any bedroom activities that might take place on the road. That way, should an accusation surface, a witness can help sort out the truth. For the players, writer Lisa DePaulo points out, this “isn’t just kinky, it’s smart business.”
Yes! And one! Finally a job I feel my liberal arts education has prepared me for — I’d work for free for the chance to see if Patrick Ewing sweats as much in the bedroom as he did on the basketball court.
The article goes on to report:
“As for which men the groupies most adore? They prefer the bad boys, the Allen Iverson and Rasheed Wallace types. “We like a guy who’s hard on the court,” one groupie said. “I never hear women oohing and ahhing over Kobe, because he’s a punk. He’s soft.” Dwyane Wade? “A cutie, but not all women are turned on by the Christian thing.”
When a Rebuilding Year intern contacted Blazers Center Ha Seung Jin about the GQ story had little to say except to remind readers that he is Buddhist and not all that into that Christian thing. He went on to note that he plays hard on the court like AI and Rasheed, as indicated by his 11 fouls in 11 minutes of hard summer league action.
July 12, 2006 at 6:02 pm
[...] GQ has given us a wonderful, wonderful gift- a gift that hasnt stopped giving for the past two weeks. We can’t stop thinking about this article about NBA groupies. We love the way the girls breakdown the different castes of groupies. We love the way the girls talk about who’s fly and who’s a candystriper. We love the fact that the groupies have groupies. It is like opening an old medicine cabinet and finding a tiny living Indian inside. [...]