Ever run into a Husky?

[mauconnfan]

Tyler Olander, today, playing tennis.

My golf buddies recently had Tyler and his buddies in a foursome in front of them at Edgewood GC in Southwick MA..

 

[Deepelm]

I met Emeka at a Maxim party in Charlotte back when he was still on the old Bobcats team. Super nice guy.

 

[BlueMAB]

John Gwynn, Jerome Dyson, Kevin Ollie (twice, 15+ years apart), and Kevin Freeman

 

[UConniki]

I met dozens of UConn players at one of my CarToys stores on the Berlin TPKE in Wethersfield 88-2000 before moving to Florida. They were all great kids, extremely polite, just really nice high character people, my favorite was Donny Marshall, least favorite Travis Knight ( never came back to finish paying his bill ). Somebody was always getting something put into their car, so it was pretty common to run into UConn players for about 12 years or so.

 

[Yankees32123]

Ray Allen lives in my town over the summer so I've run into him a few times over the last decade. I met Niels Giffey and Leon Tolksdorf in DC a few years back. Met Donny Marshall in a Bradley Airport bathroom.

 

[BattersonBoyz]

Ran into Brimah outside Division West in WeHa. One of my friends yelled "Natty Champs" at him and the girl he was with tried fighting us because she thought we were calling him a "nerd" somehow.....Brimah was cool though, he just laughed and waved.

Also ran into Olander at Elicit a few months ago, just said what's up and kept moving.

Those were the only chance public encounters but I've seen plenty of coaches and players around campus or at sanctioned events (Ted's, Frat parties, the Traveler's ProAm, etc.)

 

[polycom]

Fandom is so interesting...

 

[CL82]

Met Donny Marshall in a Bradley Airport bathroom.

 

[2PointGuards]

Gavin Edwards was friendly with my next door neighbor and went to his UConn graduation party in Sandy Hook, CT.

 

[Horatio]

Ran into Shuttlesworth this morning at Bradley. I left him alone.

 

[Waquoit]

Caught Kemba at Saratoga today, He naturally won. The 4th.

 

[mbt0512]

Second Beach in Newport (technically Middletown) RI earlier today—I’m 6’1 for reference. Just told him I hate to be that guy, but am a diehard fan and my son and nephews would love a pic. Couldn’t have been more gracious!

 

[McLovin]

Caught Kemba at Saratoga today, He naturally won. The 4th.

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Lmao who owns that horse? I need to bet on it next time it runs.

 

[Waquoit]

Lmao who owns that horse? I need to bet on it next time it runs.

Nobody I recognize with UConn ties.

 

[temery]

Tyler Olander, today, playing tennis.

The pro at the tennis club I worked played some former NBA players when they were in town for the HOF.

He always won, but the matches were fun to watch. Highlight of one match was getting a lob over Rick Barry's head.

 

[fatlucy]

Ran into Mek his freshman year at Bradley. I recognized him and said loudly to my wife, “that’s Ameka Okafore, our new center” his head snapped to us and his smile lit up the entire airport.

 

[fatlucy]

Dude, I knew Scotty from high school. Ran into him at UCONN a few times. Always wit two girls on his arm(s) lol.

 

[Husky25]

Not for some time, Rashamel Jones and Andre Dixon used to hold basetball and football clinics, respectively, at Sports on 66 in East Hampton before the pandemic and before it was foreclosed upon and sold. I met Ray Allen at the Travelers in the late aughts, and used to see Tate George in the early 2000s at the Manchester Stop & Shop.

 

[Palatine]

Back in day, the drinking age was 18. So we would see and interact with players at places like the Ratsckeller or Rap's Deli fairly often. I guess Tony Hason was the lead dog but the most impressive was Rodney Bass who could down a pitcher of beer.

 

[RichZ]

Met Donny Marshall in a Bradley Airport bathroom.

Wait. I know there's a Chief joke in there somewhere.

 

[uconnfan68]

Second Beach in Newport (technically Middletown) RI earlier today—I’m 6’1 for reference. Just told him I hate to be that guy, but am a diehard fan and my son and nephews would love a pic. Couldn’t have been more gracious!

Now I have to question 7’2”, or 6’1”.

 

[USNavyDog]

Someone recently posted about meeting Emeka Okafor while on vacation. Has anyone else ever ran into a UConn player outside of a school/basketball setting?

I've seen Ray Allen twice. Once at the old New London mall, but he was there to sign autographs. About 5 years ago, I was in line behind him at a UPS store.

I'm about 99.9% sure I saw Donnell Beverly while waiting on a plane at LAX. I didn't say anything to him, just because it would've been really awkward if turned out he was some other guy. Donnell or not, he had a burger that looked really good.

When I went to the mohegan Sun exhibition game between Uconn and Providence back in Fall 2017, I could be wrong I thought I saw Donyell Marshall standing about 15 feet behind me.

 

[Ewekon]

Someone recently posted about meeting Emeka Okafor while on vacation. Has anyone else ever ran into a UConn player outside of a school/basketball setting?

I've seen Ray Allen twice. Once at the old New London mall, but he was there to sign autographs. About 5 years ago, I was in line behind him at a UPS store.

I'm about 99.9% sure I saw Donnell Beverly while waiting on a plane at LAX. I didn't say anything to him, just because it would've been really awkward if turned out he was some other guy. Donnell or not, he had a burger that looked really good.

 

[Ewekon]

Yes. Literally but in advance, I guess. Played MBIAC ball versus McKay for 3 years, running or being run into often.

Pickup at Sheehan center with both Mike M and Chris Smith. It never went well.

Went to Coach Calhoun's big fundraiser at Mohegan years ago and got the meet n greet with JC and coach Howie D. Chatted with Jim several times over the years as I'd hit as many of his charity events as possible and he made sure to say a few words to every donor that approached him. Always 100%.