Posted January 2nd, 2009 by Commish
Tags: Basketball, Los Angeles Lakers, Devean George, Tony Bobbitt, Vlade Divac

Lucy Liu NBA Prank

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When Dallas forward Devean George recently passed through Denver, he recalled some legendary rookie pranks from when he was on the Lakers earlier this decade. George found himself on both ends.

When George was a rookie in 1999-2000, the Lakers played a preseason game in Little Rock, Ark. After a morning shootaround, Shaquille O’Neal and several teammates struck.

“Shaq, Glen Rice, John Salley and Ron Harper, all those guys, taped me to the floor and just left me there,” George said. “I couldn’t get up. They taped me up pretty good.”

The players left. Finally, after 15 minutes, a worker found George and cut him loose.

The Lakers that season had a good supply of duct tape. They were hardly done with George.

“We taped him to a valet cart once in a Sacramento hotel, and we rolled him down the hall and into the elevator and sent him down to the lobby,” said then- Lakers forward Rick Fox.

George eventually found himself on the other end of pranks. In 2004-05, actress Lucy Liu was sitting in the front row at the Staples Center and Lakers rookie Tony Bobbitt fibbed to teammates that he knew Liu and she was looking his way.

Lakers veterans, spearheaded by Vlade Divac and George, sprang into action. They had a ballboy bring a note to Bobbitt with a cell phone number that was said to be Liu’s but really was Divac’s.

A female Lakers employee recorded an outgoing message on Divac’s phone. It wasn’t long before Bobbitt was leaving voice and text messages for Liu.

Lakers players howled with laughter while reading Bobbitt’s attempts at poetry. Messages were sent back that Bobbitt thought were from Liu.

“The whole team got involved,” George said. “He said he went on a date with her, and we knew he didn’t because it was Vlade’s phone he was calling and texting.”

Soon, the veterans moved in for the kill. They sent a limousine to take Bobbitt to a restaurant, with Bobbitt thinking it had been sent by Liu for a meeting.

Hidden cameras recorded the entire episode. But while Bobbitt waited at a table with a bottle of champagne for his dream girl, Lakers teammates instead arrived.

“We jumped out, and he said, ‘She’s coming,’ ” George said. “We said, ‘Quit lying.’ It started as a small prank and grew since he had kept lying for three or four weeks. We got the whole thing on DVDs. When guys on other teams came through, they’d say, ‘You got one of those DVDs?’ We called it ‘Bobbitt Gone Wild.’ ”

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January 25, 2009 at 1:22 pm

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