NBA teams spend a lot of time in
hotels, which can sometimes be an uncomfortable experience for people
who thrive on routine. There's no telling when a bed might not be up to
snuff, room service delivers an incorrect order (I said no tomatoes!),
or an opposing fan starts heckling. Pros have learned to handle such
distractions, but that doesn't mean they're not annoying.
Ayres: “You get in at whatever
time. I took my room key. I could hear stuff in the hallway, like people
in their rooms. So I’m thinking people are watching TV or whatever. So I
get to my door, and my key doesn’t work, but it sounds like there’s
somebody in my room. Like I hear a little baby, not crying but making
noise. I’m like, ‘What the heck?’ I keep trying my key and it doesn’t
work. So I go downstairs to get a new key, and I tell them (somebody’s
in the room).
“So they call the room, and
nobody answers. They’re like, ‘We can get you a new key and send you up
with security and make sure nobody’s there, because there shouldn’t be
anybody in there.’ Then they’re like, ‘We’ll just get you a new room.’
It was the creepiest thing. I heard a couple of other guys heard babies
in the hallway, kids running down the hallway. Creepy. I really heard
voices and a baby in the room, and there wasn’t anybody in there. It was
crazy.”
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