that’s pretty cool. I wish i had a maserati…haha.

I met Ken norton Jr. in the Mens Restroom of Discovery Zone in Milpitas CA.

I also met Jim Lee at Auntie Anne’s pretzels at Valco Square Mall prior to a signing.

He came to FAO Schwarz while I was working there. He basically came in, picked out toys, and told his wife to pay for it and carry it to the car and walked off. CLASSIC!!!

I was thinking that he was gonna slap her on the ass on the way out just for good measure, but he didn’t.

I saw Leon Powe walking down Bay St in Emeryville with a Game Stop bag in his hands. He was yapping on the celly so I didn’t want to bother him. I wanted to congratulate him on that ring he got, but I guess they dont get theirs until opening night or something. My homie was like “he doesn’t look athletic at all”. I disagreed, dude was hella big in the shoulder pieces.

with Gary Radnich over a parking spot in front of his house.

I went to visit my friend who lives right across the street, and Gary ‘Fagnich’ thew a girly tantrum because i LEGALLY parked my car in front of his house… It was a public road for God’s sake. I’ll never forget it. Even though i had every right to park there, my friend had asked me to move because Baby Gary always gets his panties in a bunch when someone parks their car in the space in front of his house. I hate that guy so much…

Anyway i thought this was slightly relevant since he does report occasionally about our beloved Warriors. Still though, screw him.

I met Tom Tolbert in the parking lot of a ToysR’us in Hayward. He was Xmas shopping at the time with his wife who is very good looking.

I posted this one a while back, but I ran into J-RICH @ Club 181 in SF one Saturday night. The interesting part of my story was that they had just gotten back from SEATTLE after BARON hit the game winner in the final seconds of the game. I just congratulated him on the win.

Either he was really happy to come back home w/ a win against the SONICS, or he’s a hardcore clubber like people that go clubbing til 3am during the work week! haha =P

Matt Barnes at Nordstrom in Walnut Creek. I helped him and his girl with some shoes. He pulled out a 2 inch thick stack of 100’s to pay haha. His tattoos are even better in person.

and Mickael Petrius(haha) would always go there. First time i met him i got his autograph, then the second time when i was eating at a table, then he came up from behind me and hugged me. He smelled like French Perfume!!! Lol, it was still pretty great when a warrior (now former) hugs you.

They say he has soft hands, what do you think?

Or maybe his bodyguard.

:P

I met J.R. Rider at a barber shop in Hayward once. Arrogant, big-headed, a-hole. He was in the barber chair and my buddy asked him if he was J.R. Rider. He just had this cocky face and kept saying nope, nope. Then one of his buddies said the man’s name is Isiah. And Rider just gets a smirky grin on his face and goes yup. He just had this “too cool for you” vibe about him that turned me off to him. After he left the owner of the shop said that Rider came around the place since he was little and used to play dice around the corner. Even he said that he never really liked JR.

Way back when the Niners were good, I saw Lee Woodall in the parking lot of the Good Guys in Santa Clara. He was trying to get out of a parallel parking spot in his Land Cruiser and hit the parked behind him pretty badly. I didn’t know it was him till he hit the car and I walked over to see what was going on. He saw me coming and sped off. The guy looks exactly like Evander Holyfield if he got shrunk in the wash.

I met Marcus Camby in the Stoneridge mall in Pleasanton. It was really strange. People were following him around the mall but no one was talking to him. They would just whisper to each other as he walked by. It’s kinda hard not to notice a guy his size walking around the mall. This was back when he played for the Raptors. I walked up to him and said hello and asked him for an autograph. He didn’t really say anything. He just mumbled. It was my friends birthday that day so I gave him the autograph.

I met Brian Grant at a pool hall in Dublin that has since been closed. This was back when he played for the Miami Heat before being traded to L.A. for Shaq. It was the off season so I had no idea why he was in Dublin. At first I didn’t recognize him and I just thought he was some dude that looked like Bob Marley but once he lined up at the table next to me, I could tell who he was. After about an hour of playing pool and he obviously noticing me looking over every now and again, he and his party were leaving. He came up to me and said hello to me and shook my hand. I said “Hi Brian, good luck next season.” I thought it was kinda weird that he made the effort to talk to me. I didn’t want to bother him with his friends.

I met Mitch Richmond at Summer League. My husband was giggling like a little girl.

I saw Mr. Cooper (you know, Hanging with Mr. Cooper) at a Quik Stop buying a pack Swisher Sweets! Didn’t even know he got down like that. He was cool as hell, shook my hand and even waved to me and honked his horn when he was leaving the parking lot.

They really need to bring that show back.

...when I clicked “SUMBIT” that my modest attempt at a little yay area sports citizen journalism would blow up into such a hilarious thread. (Not unlike what Motna’s folks thought when he first got on the court.)

I’ve been reading GSOM for a while and have always thought the community here was pretty UNSTOPPABLE and glad I could finally join in.

Thanks @nuttinbutnet for the idea to expand this to a celeb-u-sighting thread, hope to see these in the future (with evidence) and glad my 1st post on GSOM was a successful rookie campaign.

Glad to be here. If there’s still cap room.

Let see, I worked for the Good Guys HQ for a few years, and we had the W’s player always getting hooked up phat @ our stores.

I met Larry Hughes w/ his Girl and kid as he was trying to buy an Entertainment System the Hayward Good Guys, he was one of my favorite Warriors the time, so of course I had to hook him up a little bit…lol

We were extremely late in delivery Mike Dunleavy’s TV, a $10K one @ that, so I had to call him directly and apologize, after which I sent him a Thank you letter w/ a few thousand $ worth of gift checks. ( I kinda overdid it cuz he was a Dub, and it was his 2nd Year in the league) At the bottom, I had to empahsize….”Go Warriors!” Lol

My favorite Ex-Warriros….Mr. T…Tom Tolbert…they guy is a really cool guy, and I won tickets off his “Razor and Mr T” show on KNBR to go watch the Mosely vs. Del La Hoya II fight in Vegas….I was supposed to meet them out there to be on the Radio…but I was kinda busy (and drunk) having a blast and completely forgot, I ran into him @ a Gas Station in Alameda afterwards and he was just real cool about everything.

Oh…my boy is a Security Gaurd @ a club in Oakland, Air Lounge, right around the Warriors offices, and he does other local event….Well Stephen Jackson car(I think it was an Escalade?) Needed a jump, something wrong w/ the wiring or beat he had…and it was him, Barnes, Monta and I think Al….so my boy had to give him a jump….that’s a funny one.

during our amazing playoff push i caught al harrington with his baby’s mama and child walking around the virgin record store in the city. people were oblivious to who he was despite the fact that the dubs were making a miraculous playoff push, he was walking around the store for a solid half an hour. it wasnt until i was checking out did i work up the nerve to say whats up to the dude….he’s hella intimidating, he’s a big ass dude.

Barry came out to a group home I worked at in Cupertino. He wouldn’t kneel on the lawn for the group photo with a bunch of autistic children b/c he said, “you know how much these pants cost?” We had to coax him into kneeling by getting some towels from the house. Other than that he was just alright.

Also met Tom Tolbert, Mitch Ritchmond, Don Nelson and Jim Barnett at Warriors camp in San Fransisco back in like ‘91-92. Jim Barnett can straight up ball – he ran teenagers off the court, and he was old.

He was pretty popular w/ the ladies. He’s pretty laid back & tall as hell.

I met Wilt Chamberlain around 1985 on a flight from SF to LA. PSA was still around, flying 727’s and we were both in the second row, across the aisle from each other. In his case, there was no seat in front of him in the first row. It was funny… his torso seems normal sized (for a tall guy), but his legs went on forever! Hence, Wilt the Stilt.

He was nice enough. But he didn’t hit on anyone during the flight, so that must have brought down his average.

I met Steve Young at the Pro Bowl well i met a lot of other people. I won the trip from a bag of Lays, It had a code that you had to put in the internet and I won. On the plane ride to Honolulu I sat next to a Raiderette. Met John Elway, all the Espn Football crew except Chris Berman. Matt Hassleback at the Dinner Lays gave he signed my pro bowl hat. Micheal Irvin but hes a A hole. I met the owner of Mountain mikes Pizza at a Benihana. As for Steve I met him Twice frist time I was swimming in the Beach and he just went near me like nothing. I didn’t say anything cause one i was to shocked and two i wanted to give him his space. Then the other time was when i was about to leave and i was like this only happens once so i Said hi and asked for a picture and got it. Than on the plane ride back i had Rod Woodson on the plane. turnes out he likes to play Warcraft. I was gonna talk to him but he was sick :( but yeah heres the pic i took with Steve

Gave me his autograph way back when at the san jose airport!

It was a firework game. Back when Donyell Marshall was on the team. I look over and he is right next to me walking out after the firework show. All I could think was, wow he is trying hard to get noticed. He was wearing a warriors sweatshirt and warrior sweatpants. But as you know back then alot of people were upset with him never living up to the potential, everyone still ignored him.

One of my friends know Pietrus so I actually got to hang out with him a couple of times. One time, I went with my friend to pick up his girl and his brother’s girl to go to the game then met with MP to grab a late dinner after the game. All of them were from france and started talking in french at one point. Then he goes to me and told me they were just talking about stupid stuff and started talking to me. Great, funny guy.

against matt barnes. he was playing for the sactown pirates and under a fake name. my dad (playing on my team) asked him what nellie would think, and he said, “man, i’m just tryin to stay in shape!”

biggest left-center fielder you ever saw. although my dad did put two balls out of his giant reach.

Met Andris last year at Club Harlot in SF, now I’m not small at 6’4” and 230lbs but stood next to him, I thought ‘Damn your a big bugger!”.

Also had the great privilidge to meet His “Airness” himself at his restaurant in Chicago a few years back when I was visiting the city on business. Seemed like a really decent down to earth bloke.

Just as hot as the J-Rich ramblings… shoot this post rung up 100+ comments and some recs! Outta sight!

1) Nizzario’s on Geary, at around 3 in the morning, I ran into Beindris/Baron David/Tskitshvili (sp?) after a game @ SAC. Baron was as high as a kite. AB/NT were cool. The stretch coach was the designated driver…I apologized to him for not recognizing him off the bad. Asked bdiddy for a picture and he said “aw man i don’t like to take pics when i’m a little tipsy…how about a knuckle-knock?” which was MORE than fine with me! biendris was mobbing the cayane porsche, which i heard he totalled on 580 last year.

2) Met Mickael Pietrus at the Oakland Airport…we were both flying to Las Vegas. Took a picture with him, cool ass dude. Then he asked me for help on the terminal. He was completely on the wrong side of the airport…cracked me up. If any warrior was going to be completely loss at the airport, wouldn’t it be MP??? Then, in Vegas, that wknd I ran into him again. He was shooting some sort of promo or spot for/at Ceasars Palace. He rememberd me and we high-fived. Coolest dude ever.

3) Met Pietrus AND Tony Parker hanging out out on the street, Broadway in SF. Shook Tony’s hand but for the life of me I blanked on Pietrus. They must’ve been cruisin for chicks because this was pre-Eva…

I was in LA two weeks ago at Klub Prime. He kept mentioning how he adored Columbia and Venezuela and has a project there revolving around young boys. Something about tranquilizers and Kool Aide. Maybe the music was too loud or something, but I found that odd. I also told him he is a loser for leaving the GSW, but he couldn’t hear me and just smiled yeah. LOL…

...were chilling one night at the xyz bar at the W hotel in SF a few years back. I was having a few drinks at the bar with a business associate and noticed that there was a private party for the Warriors in the upstairs lounge. Being the huge Dubs fan that I was/am I was intrigued as to who might be at the party but it was a private affair and so just stayed at the bar and kept drinking….At some point in the night, some of the Dubz made their way down to the main bar to mix it up. Lo and Behold, who ambled up to the bar and sat down just to my right?......

Good ole’ Uncle Cliffy (Cliff Robinson) sat right next to me at the bar for about an hour at least – he was chillin with a nice looking lady. I shook his hand and said what’s up, he was real cool. At different times other Warriors players came by to talk to Cliffy such as Dun, Avery, Bimbo, Troy. They were all goofy and yapping to each other, but were not really mixing it up with us common folks besides Uncle Cliffy…

One thing I remember about Avery Johnson is how big his mouth was in real life!!

Another time I ran into Barry Bonds and his dad at the golf course. Barry was waiting to tee off and I came about 10 feet from him (not even asking for an autograph or anything)
- I just said “hey Barry, thanks for the great seaon this year…even though you guys did not make it to the playoffs it was exciting and super close so thanks again” – and Barry gave me his patented 1000 yard stare -like he is looking straight through me and can’t tell where the voice that just spoke to him came from… and did not even nod his head, or say “thanks dude” or anything but just turned away without even acknowledging that I was there….what a D*&K

my girl and i met Al Harrington and his entourage in the Beverly Center in LA, and a couple minutes later talked to Anthony Roberson…ex-warrior in Macys

... at LIDS in the major mall here, I’ve ran into a bunch of athletes. Pretty much every year during the week of the Pro Bowl all the players, plus their wives/entourage role in and buy up everything.

My personal stories include sellin hats to JRich (it was a busy day and I didnt even notice him in the store til he asked me if we had any more of a hat in the back). Got his autograph, plus he signed three other hats for a program we ran for kids with cancer.

The funnest for me was when Joe Smith and his wife came in. I talked to then for a half hour, and he left with over thirty hats! Made my sales numbers for the month on him, plus him and his wife were great people. He even told me to “make sure you finish that college degree”. Funny thing is, Im 6’3”, but standing next to Joe I didn’t feel that much smaller. He definitely was a lot shorter than 6’10”, probably closer to 6’7”.

I also met Chad Johnson, and I wasn’t a fan of his outspoken ways; but the dude is funny as hell. Love the guy now! Funny how meeting an athlete can completely change your opinion of them.

Can piss 8 feet.

I can’t believe this lil ditty o mine has 145 responses.

I feel like the Moses of GSoM.

(Which means y’all are the proverbial chozen onez)

He bought me and my buddies a few Patron shots. Cool ass down to earth dude. I’m gonna miss Air France.

I met a handful of Warriors in the past 2 years, during the whole playoff season especially.

I worked at the Hegenberger T-Mobile and literally every Warrior including J-Rich, Al Harrington , Monta, and Baron Davis came by.

It was super cool but Monta had come in and I was the guy to help in one day and he was trying to buy a internet card. I had to be truthful to him and tell him our cards were really lousy (which they were) but anyways he was rockin his warriors velour sui and just wearing a warriors hat. I was really suprised to talk to him but he had a deep accent and I just said have a great season. My coworker still talks to him when it comes to that shit.

I met Al Harrington again at work, he needed a car charger for his blackberry, he’s tall and pale. He again was really cool, signed an autograph and you know the same ol deal. He didnt talk so much, but his tattoos were sick in person.

Finally I met Pietrus at the end of the Knicks game last year at Wingstop in the Hegenberger plaza. He was ordering food and nobody noticed him, even the cashier was like PIET.. WHAT? Because she didnt understand him and he ended up writing his name on a piece of paper. I didnt greet him until he came back for his food. I asked for his picture and asked him if he wanted to be traded. I think my girlfriend said he didn’t but you know, things happen. He was cool as hell, and was rockin some LV slippers and all that good stuff. He came in a new BMW suv and had a driver.

Super!

I saw Mark Ibanez at the Calvin Klein outlet up in Napa buying CK boxer briefs!

This thread started as an Andris Biedrins DMV sighting, transformed into a ‘i met so-and-so sports athlete’ and suddenly took a turn for ‘my moms is tight with so-and-so Hong Kong music dude’.

WTH is next?

“The feel good fanpost of the summer!” who would’ve thought huh?!

Good lookin’!

I just saw Jim Barnett at Chow restaurant in Lafayette while I was eating dinner. He was sitting at the bar alone.