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https://www.theplayerstribune.com/leandro-barbosa-nba-brazil-suns/
Klay was a great player already, but Steve saw something in him. Klay would stay after practice most days and shoot threes, from a standing position, for hours. Steve didn’t like that. He told him that in real games you almost never shoot standing still. And Klay was making all his threes, so he was sort of like, Why would I change anything? So it took Klay a little bit of time to get what Steve was saying. But Steve had a point, and Klay put in a lot of time. Eventually, Klay incorporated more of a dribble-step into his routine and you can see the results now.
I told them, through my translator, I wasn’t going back to the hotel that night. I wanted to sleep there.
“But you can’t sleep here. There is no bed. This is just … the floor,” they said.
I told them that this was way better than anything I had back home in Brazil. I said if they could see where I lived in Sao Paulo they would understand. I don’t think they could believe it. But I didn’t care. I wanted to be there that night.
There was a big TV, a fridge, and my name was on an NBA locker behind me. What else did I need?
I slept on the carpet of the locker room the whole night. It was one of the best sleeps of my life. The next day, I met two guys who would become family to me: Shawn Marion and Stephon Marbury.
We’re all there in towels, just sitting around waiting. Shaq is kind of upset at this point. So he takes off his towel (not sure why) and heads down to our trainer’s office. He opens the door and is like, “Are you coming? Or am I going to have to pick you up and take you?”
At first, the trainer can’t tell if Shaq is joking or not. Shaq takes a few steps closer and our trainer knows he’s not. So the trainer takes off — sprinting down the hall.
Shaq follows him, of course. Still butt-ass naked. Now Shaq is in a dead sprint down the hallway, running past arena workers and other staff, screaming at the top of his lungs. This is a normal business day. It’s a weekday.
Everyone is in official Suns gear or in suits. Shaq is in his birthday suit.
Just picture that, if you dare.
Future Hall of Famer, one of the greatest big men to ever play the game of basketball. And here he was, naked, chasing our tiny little trainer through the arena halls. I think the chase lasted 15 minutes. Which is a long time for the Big Nude Cactus to be loose in the arena.