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Straight Shooter| Where do you keep your two MVP trophies? | They’re in the hallway at home. It wasn’t really so much about displaying them. We just put the first one there and the next year we got another one, so put it next to the first one. They’re on this little… I don’t know what you call it… you know, like one of those tables that you’d maybe put flowers on or something like that. It’s off to the side of the hallway. You could easily walk right by them and not notice them. |
| How do you get your per diem and what do you do with it? | We get our per diem from Mike Elliott, our assistant trainer, on the bus on the way to the plane. I don’t know what I do with it. A lot of times I just use credit cards, so sometimes I come home with some extra money, but other times I spend it or take the guys out. It depends. If you’re going on a long road trip, you can blow it all and take them out. |
| We’ve never seen you dunk. Can you? | I don’t know if I can right now, but two or three years ago I dunked in practice. I was egged on by the guys, but that was the last time. I’ve never really been that type of an explosive player. I used to enjoy dunking with my friends in high school, but after that I realized it took too much effort for very little return, so I have not done a lot of dunking since high school. |
| Do you celebrate American or Canadian Thanksgiving? | American, because we’re here and everyone is celebrating. We definitely honor the Canadian Thanksgiving, but it’s much more convenient for us to celebrate when everybody else is celebrating. Since it’s basically the same deal, I don’t feel like I’m demeaning one or the other. The food is the same, turkey and all that stuff. The whole spread is great, but my favorite is the turkey. |
| How do you celebrate a teammate’s birthday? | Usually we’ll have a cake on the plane or in the locker room, depending on if we’re at home or away. But I don’t eat cake. At least not very often. If we happen to be away somewhere, we might go out for dinner, but it all depends on where we are. |
| Being environmentally conscious, do you subscribe to the philosophy of “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.” | I think within reason you need to save as many bowls of water as possible, so there’s nothing wrong with letting it mellow for a while. But you obviously don’t want to be living in a pig sty. Luckily, we have his and hers bathrooms [at home]. |
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From the Nov/Dec 2009 issue
