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| File - Chicago Bulls' Taj Gibson guards Orlando Magic's Brandon Bass in the first quarter of an NBA preseason game at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday, October 19, 2009. (MCT) |
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LOS ANGELES – As soon as he finished hugging ex-teachers and ex-coaches who greeted him at the Galen Center entrance on the USC campus, Taj Gibson knew what was coming.
“I was like, ‘Please don’t go in the big gym. Please don’t go in the big gym,’ ” Gibson said Wednesday afternoon. “As soon as we got here, [teammates] were, like, all over me.”
That’s because inside said “big gym” were three huge photos of Gibson from his USC playing days. For professional athletes who consider intense mocking the purest sign of being a good teammate, this was equivalent to throwing raw meat to a lion.
“I don’t mind it so bad,” Coach Vinney Del Negro said. “But the one in front of me now is like 40 feet by 20.”
