I don’t think any of these are things that only the Bucks would do. A lot of players build those relationships behind the scenes that we don’t hear about. Even KD in OKC probably still has connections to people there all these years later
To the people of OKC, KD is completely and totally dead to them. Russ on the other hand absolutely, he could come at any time and people would still love him. I’ve seen him in so many different places here, but there was never that vibe with KD. KD is a bit more loner vibes, Russ has always been super friendly to everyone he interacts with, and everyone respected him the way Giannis talks about.
I tell this story pretty often but I used to work in one of the biggest poker rooms in Oklahoma, Russ would frequent it pretty often, but the first time he came in he was like hoodie on, sunglasses, but it’s Westbrook, he’s a fucking massive dude, compared to the average 45 year old white poker player, he did this for like 3 days before some random guy at the table was like “bro we all know it’s you” and from that day forward he stopped with the incognito get up and nothing changed everyone treated him like normal. He knew all the dealers names and was super fucking nice.
I don’t think any of these are things that only the Bucks would do. A lot of players build those relationships behind the scenes that we don’t hear about. Even KD in OKC probably still has connections to people there all these years later
of course other teams would do it, but not every player is going to value those efforts the same as giannis seems to.
To the people of OKC, KD is completely and totally dead to them. Russ on the other hand absolutely, he could come at any time and people would still love him. I’ve seen him in so many different places here, but there was never that vibe with KD. KD is a bit more loner vibes, Russ has always been super friendly to everyone he interacts with, and everyone respected him the way Giannis talks about.
I tell this story pretty often but I used to work in one of the biggest poker rooms in Oklahoma, Russ would frequent it pretty often, but the first time he came in he was like hoodie on, sunglasses, but it’s Westbrook, he’s a fucking massive dude, compared to the average 45 year old white poker player, he did this for like 3 days before some random guy at the table was like “bro we all know it’s you” and from that day forward he stopped with the incognito get up and nothing changed everyone treated him like normal. He knew all the dealers names and was super fucking nice.