Clipper’s guard Lou Williams will have to sit out for two games after going to a strip club for dinner during a trip outside the NBA bubble.
The NBA is holding an abbreviated season within the confines of the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex located at Walt Disney World. Twenty-two teams are participating in eight games, while staff and players live and practice in an isolation zone deemed “the bubble.”
Williams was approved for a trip off campus to attend a family funeral in Atlanta, but made an unsanctioned stop at strip club Magic City to eat some chicken wings at his “favorite restaurant in Atlanta.”
Ask any of my teammates what’s my favorite restaurant in Atlanta is. Ain’t nobody partying. Chill out lol #Maskon #inandout
— Lou Williams (@TeamLou23) July 24, 2020
In a since deleted Instagram photo, rapper Jack Harlow revealed Williams’ location at the club last Thursday.
Jack Harlow posted this and deleted this on his IG story yesterday ?? https://t.co/ZGYt6gc5RV pic.twitter.com/8Y9NOMUJmz
— Ahmed??/Justice for Breonna & Elijah (@big_business_) July 24, 2020
When Williams disclosed his activities to the NBA, the league enforced a 10-day quarantine period, which forced the Clipper’s guard to miss two games and caused him to forfeit 150k in salary.
Retired pro baller and ESPN commentator, Kendrick Perkins, acknowledged that though Magic City’s wings “are fire,” Williams is a veteran that “knows better.” He went on to say that the Clippers should be focused on social justice and trying to win the title, but instead they have “to talk about Magic City, and Lou Will, and chicken wings. It’s just not fair and it was very irresponsible of Lou Will.”
It’s disturbing when a Rookie in Zion Williamson can act more Mature than NBA vet Lou Williams!!! https://t.co/FlWgDBEXRU
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) July 27, 2020
Williamson shot back at Perkins on Twitter, “15 years in this business and the most dirt you have on my name is stopping to get hot wings during a pandemic. Perk. Shut up.”
15 years in this business and the most dirt you have on my name is stopping to get hot wings during a pandemic. Perk. Shut up. And stop laughing and saying it’s just tv when you run into me too. https://t.co/2xnCpG9I1J
— Lou Williams (@TeamLou23) July 27, 2020
Williams will not be eligible to play until the Clippers face off against the Suns on August 4.
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He shoulda flown to China for his chicken dinner. Then it would have perfectly acceptable.
I thought America was still a free country. Since when is a guy forbidden to go to a strip joint, unless he’s a priest or monk? Seriously? And maybe he really was there because of the food, not the nude girls? I think they’re being too controlling and someone needs to remind them with a SLEDGE HAMMER who does NOT control our lives.
it’s not the “strip club”, he probably would have drawn the same at “McDonalds” or “BurgerKing”. It’s the fact he violated his rules, broke quarantine, and was quarantined for 10 days. From what the story says, he was not fined, just just lost the equivalent of 2 games pay for being unable to play. Something about contracts and such.
I hate this ‘lockdown’ and totally disagree with it, but as a grownup who signed a contract, he can be held to it, even if it means quarantine.
Popeyes would have been OK
Gotta play by the Mater’s rules.
“Clipper’s guard Lou Williams will have to sit out for two games after going to a strip club for dinner during a trip outside the NBA bubble.”
Because everyone knows strip clubs provide the finest dining. Give it up Lou. You got caught!
It is not just for food.
Who cares stopped watching NBA along with NFL bunch of cry babies paid a kings ransom to play a child’s game served this country for 23 yrs and as soon as they started kneeling I stopped watching if the college ranks do it I’ll stop watching that too if you want to kneel do it before the anthem or after the game and center court or at mid field why during the anthem both teams meet after games to pray so why not after would like to see if any of these players could handle being in the military personally think they should enact the draft would make men out of a lot of these snowflakes
Nicely put and unlike me no four letter words were used on these punks.
Let em play let em dance let em protest let em eat chicken shit I don’t care I ain’t watching the fools.
Basketball is nothing but overpaid baboons