Martell Webster sounds like my type of guy
Ever wonder what it’s like to get dunked on by Blake Griffin?
Ron Artest can’t be the only one itching to find out what it’s like and now everyone can know what it’s like thanks to SI’s brilliant writer, Chris Ballard.
Here we have Victim #296 (give or take), a tall black male, aged 25 years. His name is Anthony Tolliver, he plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves, and he prides himself on never backing down from a challenge. Which is how he came to be standing under the basket on the night of Nov. 17, 2010, when Blake Griffin achieved liftoff. What followed was, in basketball terms, obscene. Suffice to say Tolliver ended up with an armpit in his face and a highlight to last a lifetime.
Two months later, when asked by a reporter, Tolliver remembers only certain details, as if recalling a traumatic childhood memory. It was from the left side. He reacted instinctively. The world went into slow-mo. As he speaks, he is standing in the visitors’ locker room before a game against the Los Angeles Clippers, and his teammates, having overheard the conversation, enthusiastically chime in. “It was a-mazing!” Martell Webster declares with fake gusto, pretending to be Tolliver. “He had his balls on my head, and afterward he apologized and said, ‘Good effort, guy.’”
I’d imagine this story reads the same as the diary of a crash test dummy.
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