Infection... bravo! You did miss a few critical parts of the story. In all respect to everything you have done I hope you will all allow me to add a few other details that maybe didn't fit in this historic account. Without further adieu...
June 7, 1974
The New Orleans Jazz were admitted as an
expansion franchise into the
National Basketball Association (NBA). The first season ticket holder call came in from a certain B. Samedi who specifically requested a front row seat directly under the rim. Teams would learn to loath playing the New Orleans Jazz for one particular reason... Mr. Samedi. He sat under the hoop and would force players to miss free throws due to his incantations and voodoo mind games.
1979 Date unkown
Danny Ainge took a weekend trip with his friends. Danny found himself in a seedy part of the
FRENCH Quarters in New Orleans where even he hated himself:
Drunk, belligerent, and covered with beads from head to toe from flashing those clover shaped nips, he headed out back and began peeing on a car with a New Orean's Jazz bumper sticker on it. A tall, mysterious black man with a fine laugh steps out of the car. Danny says, 'I'll piss on your car again... someday I'll be a big shot in basketball and I will steal hearts away from people like you and not think anything of it.' Baron stairs into the soul of Mr. Ainge and recognizes it as the soul of a sell out. The man smiles and introduces himself as Mr. Baron and offers that they head out on a magical evening to meet some of his 'friends on the other side'... of town where the real action is. The scene actually inspired a the Bond scene:
and later a disney song:
Earlier that day, the news broke that the New Orlean's Jazz would become the Utah Jazz. So the next morning a call came in to 355-DUNK from Jaws and his "athothiate" Mike Tyson:
TYSON and JAWS... "We reprethent a client who neeth front row theaths to the Uthaw Jath for ETERNITY..."
Larry H... "Can do... But they'll cost ya"
JAWTH... "Name your prithe, Mithter Larry"
Larry H to Gail - 'Honey... we just got one of the 3 Nephites as a theathon... I mean as a SEASON ticket holder!'
Mr. Samedi changes his appearance and turns into none other than 'THE DOCTOR' and brings his voodoo toys with him including a burnt chicken offering and a free throw voodoo doll.
October 3, 1991
Corey Crowder (friend and follower of a Voodoo Cult in New Orleans) fulfills his NBA dream when he signs with the Utah Jazz as an undrafted player. He is so grateful for the chance to play with Jazz legends Karl Malone and John Stockton and to Jerry Sloan for giving an undrafted rookie a chance to make the squad. In an act of gratitude Corey Crowder calls out to 'The Doctor' for a voodoo blessing on a pair of his sneakers. After a seance and some spicy cajun incantations the Doctor 'aka Baron Samedi' and Corey Crowder buried the high tops with some other goodies inside of a secret vault in the house that Larry built behind a logo of the New Orleans Jazz. There is a reason that Baron is always laughing...
https://tenor.com/view/baron-samedi-laugh-scary-voodoo-gif-10354201
August 22, 2017
Jae Crowder, the heart and soul of the Boston Celtics, gets a call from Danny Ainge (and former Professional Chotchski).
Danny Ainge: 'Hey Bae... it's Bae right? Gae?"
Anyways... How's your mom doing (sinister laugh)"
Jae Crowder: "My name is Jae, not Bae or Gay... and Sir, she's not doing very..."
INTERRUPTED "Yeah, whatevs. Don't care. Hey, Gae... Just wanted to say. Thanks for playing with all your heart! We bought that shizzzz and sold it to our fans for some serious Coin. But we are going to fetch a better price by selling your pile to Cleveland." "Just FYI, we got KYRIE for you and that midget with the bum hip, Thomas whats-his-face". "In fact, we plan to sell everyone on the team except 4 players".
5 minutes later, Jae Crowder's mother passed away. Ainge was at lunch with GAEward during the funeral.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...ter-he-told-her-hed-been-traded-to-cleveland/
Later that day...
An anonymous letter is dropped off on Dennis Lindsey's desk informing him to unearth a cement block underneath the visitor team's locker room Urinal cake. The letter is initialed "Dr. B.S." Under the urinal they find a time capsule with a New Orlean's Jazz logo, a pair of Corey Crowder's sneakers, and a vile of fermented bottle that looked like piss labeled 'Serve to Danny Ainge'.
https://www.celticsblog.com/2016/2/19/11076438/jazz-gift-jae-crowder-his-dads-20-year-old-shoes
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