DeAndre Jordan and Chandler Parsons went on an 'epic romp'
NBA players are young, successful and in the summer, have lots of free time. So, what do they do?
They romp. Epically.
DeAndre Jordan ended up re-signing with the Clippers this summer, but not before getting into bed with the Mavericks first. And how did the Mavs recruit him? They showed him the best time they possibly could (h/t Chandler Parsons' lifestyle which none of ours could ever match).
Over at ESPN, Ramona Shelburne and Tim MacMahon put together a fantastic feature on how the process of recruiting and eventually losing Jordan went down for the Mavericks. Here's some of Parsons' recruiting process:
Well, that sounds fun. We should all be 6'11" and incredible at basketball.
(H/t ESPN.)
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Parsons and Jordan had exchanged hundreds of text messages and FaceTime calls during that time. It was time, Parsons thought, to get some real face time. It was such a priority to him that he didn't mind making the four-plus-hour drive while running on fumes after a few days of Vegas fun.
Parsons and pals arrived in Houston a little before midnight and checked into the Hotel Zaza. Jordan, accompanied by some high school buddies and other acquaintances, picked them up in a party bus.
"The atmosphere is crazy, [and] the music is loud," said Pausha Haghighi, Parsons' childhood best friend and personal assistant. "There was no room on that bus. I remember thinking, 'Oh, this is where the night's gonna go?' It was a fun night."
Over the next couple weeks, the group went on an epic romp. On June 26, they met up in Los Angeles with another of the Mavs' free-agent targets, Wesley Matthews. The trio worked out with trainer Robbie Davis at his gym near LAX and made plans for the evening.
The night started with dinner at Boa on the Sunset Strip and ended across the street at a swanky club called Bootsy Bellows, where Cuban just happened to be entertaining a group of associates from his TV show, "Shark Tank." With Cuban across the club, Jordan, Parsons and Matthews sipped on drinks and discussed the possibility of playing together in Dallas.
