It could be worse. The Boston Celtics could’ve made Jaylen Brown dress up as an Oompa Loompa.
It might not have been as embarrassing as what veteran Richard Jefferson put Cleveland Cavaliers teammate Kay Felder through last month, but Brown’s rookie hazing was a whole lot more frustrating.
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Somebody filled the No. 3 overall pick’s SUV with what appears to be some extremely buttery popcorn:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/T0U3K1asN-w?feature=oembed
Celtics teammate Amir Johnson captured the scene after Wednesday’s win against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Snapchat, wondering why team employees were helping Brown clear the car of everybody’s favorite movie snack. Terry Rozier chipped in by grabbing a handful for himself.
“That’s cool,” Brown said on his Snapchat feed. “Popcorn in my truck. I’m gonna get y’all back.”
“I was gonna watch a movie tonight anyway,” he added in an Instagram photo.
Brown has been a key contributor in Boston’s late-season push to the Eastern Conference’s No. 2 seed, averaging 10.9 points (with a 62.3 true shooting percentage) and 4.4 rebounds in 23.7 minutes a night since the All-Star break, but that’s apparently not enough to avoid the old popcorn in the truck trick.
In recent years, Kent Bazemore and Rudy Gobert got the same treatment:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3hYVkazLiZY?feature=oembed
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lnNbadXq_L4?feature=oembed
Nik Stauskas didn’t drive a car in 2015, so the Sacramento Kings filled the rookie’s house with popcorn:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_pdbcC39bI?feature=oembed
The Atlanta Hawks got Malcolm Delaney right after a car wash earlier this season:
Pretty much everybody takes it in stride, except Dion Waiters, who was “mad as hell” in 2013. Both Gobert and Waiters got their popcorn after they forgot to fill their duties as doughnut delivery boys.
But nobody was angrier than Kenyon Martin, who fell victim to a ballboy’s April Fool’s Day prank as a 10th-year veteran on the Denver Nuggets in 2010. From ESPN.com’s Chris Broussard back in the day:
“That ain’t no [expletive] joke,” Martin said. “I’m going to find out who did it … put my [expletive] hands on one of y’all. I’m going to put my hands on whoever did it. You better believe that. It’s [expletive] personal. You better believe it.”
Martin, who has missed 15 games with a torn patella tendon in his left knee, threatened to boycott the postseason if he did not find out who was responsible.
“How ’bout if I don’t play in the playoffs until somebody tells me who did it,” Martin said more than once.
The cojones on the guy who did this to K-Mart. It’s almost as if NBA employees only know one trick. I guess it’s better than Charles Oakley repeatedly slapping you in the face, as Scottie Pippen can attest:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/h0f1EsUVCIU?feature=oembed
You’d think rookies would learn to lock their doors. Or at least remember to bring the doughnuts.
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Ben Rohrbach is a contributor for Ball Don’t Lie and Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at rohrbach_ben@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @brohrbach
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