8 Points, 9 Seconds » Aziz Ansari http://www.eightpointsnineseconds.com An Indiana Pacers Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 21:04:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Roy Hibbert and Detlef Schrempf Help Tom Haverford Become a Buzz Start-Up Company http://www.eightpointsnineseconds.com/2011/09/roy-hibbert-and-detlef-schrempf-help-tom-haverford-become-a-buzz-start-up-company/ http://www.eightpointsnineseconds.com/2011/09/roy-hibbert-and-detlef-schrempf-help-tom-haverford-become-a-buzz-start-up-company/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:36:55 +0000 Jared Wade http://www.eightpointsnineseconds.com/?p=10010

I missed the episode of Parks and Recreation last night featuring the former and current Pacers, so I’ll leave the descriptoring up to to Trey Kerby of The Basketball Jones.

Aside from the fact that Tom Haverford obviously needs to be educated on the difference between a strike and a lockout, this seems like the kind of thing all NBA players should be doing to scrape together some dough during this work stoppage. 75 percent of an NBA salary is nothing to wear an ornamental scarf sneeze at. High five.

Indeed.

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No matter.

What should interest you, however, is that the show takes place in the fair state of Indianapolis Indiana, and tonight the Pacers affable center Roy Hibbert will make his acting debut with an extended cameo. No word on exactly what he will be doing (or maybe there is if you listen to this whole interview … I didn’t), but if his performance on TV is anything like it was on the court last December and January, it is sure to be a laugh riot.

Tom Lewis of Indy Cornrows highlighted an entertaining part of the experience.

When Hibbert got the call from his agent telling him that he would get the chance to be on the show, Roy was nervous, thinking that he had been trading to Minnesota.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to be on the show or not and literally after I called all of my Area55 members to tell them they made it for season two, I got a phone call and I was scared to death because it was like the day of or the day before I heard the rumors about me getting traded to Minnesota. So everybody in the office, when they heard my phone ring, and I said it was my agent,…dead quiet and I thought I was getting traded to Minnesota. Then I heard the good news that I was actually going to make a cameo and possibly a couple of other episodes. So I was pretty happy for me to not only still be with the Pacers but also be able to do something that I always said I wanted to, be on TV for something other than basketball at some point in my life. I’m happy I was part of the show.

Phew. Close one.

Tim would have been inconsolable if Hibbert had been dealt to the Wolves.

Aziz and Detlef broing it up.

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