It wasn’t for a lack of trying on Houston’s part. Clint Capela reportedly was deployed as a diversion/decoy to allow Chris Paul and other marauders to gain access through a secret passage. (OK, so it isn’t so secret, but still.)
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That nugget, as well as Paul and Co.’s failed attempt to air their grievances with Blake Griffin and Austin Rivers, led to comedy gold from a wide-awake Twitter.
Griffin himself was able to, um, joke about this:
And wait, that’s Daryl Morey’s music!
Rivers was trying to be a good sport about it all, but . . .
Meanwhile, TNT’s Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley had their own belly laugh over reports Los Angeles police were called to keep the peace.
What a way to end a Monday night in the Association.
