Lakers’ Brown in Cake Caper
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Mister Biggs | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
In the most bizarre sports story of the day, Los Angeles Laker Kwame Brown took a man’s cake and threw it at him:
A man walking down the street at bar-closing time with a $190 cake in his arms claimed Los Angeles Lakers center Kwame Brown swiped his birthday treat.But authorities said the cake caper won’t be prosecuted.
In a police report, Alexander Martinez said he left his 30th birthday celebration at the Shore Restaurant and Lounge at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday with the uneaten 2-by-2-foot cake and walked north toward the Blue 32 nightclub.
Martinez told police he first came upon Lakers forward Ronny Turiaf, who he said agreed to pose for a photograph with him and the chocolate cake.
But outside of Blue 32, the 6-foot-11, 270-pound Brown came along, grabbed the cake and threw it at Martinez, according to the report. Brown got into a white limousine and left, Martinez claimed in the report, although he didn’t suggest any reason for the cake toss.
Martinez reported that he then walked up to Lamar Odom as the Lakers forward left Pedone’s Pizza and confronted him about the cake, which was splattered on the birthday man’s back.
A man believed to be Odom’s bodyguard pushed Martinez into the street, yelling at him to get away from Odom, the police report said.
“Calm down, he didn’t do anything,” Odom told the man believed to be his bodyguard, the report said.
This goes along with the general belief that nothing good happens at 2 AM. Good thing Odom was a cooler head in the situation. Of course this isn’t the first bizarre thing Kwame has done. While playing for the Washington Wizards he would carry a bottle of French dressing to dinner after the upsetting discovery that French dressing wasn’t available at a French Restaurant.
The most important question is why would Kwame would do that, but also why was a 30 year old man carrying a cake at 2 AM in Hermosa Beach. Also don’t these guys have practice? I know AI wasn’t involved so they should be there and well rested, in theory. Just another reason why I love the NBA.
