Robin Lopez filled out his 2014 NBA Player Questionnaire all the way from 1928 (Photo)
The NBA, like many employers, likes to stay up to date on its employees’ habits and interests. The most obvious examples involve things like drug tests and, increasingly, sleep schedules. But the league sometimes likes to get a bit more personal instead of just private — figuring out what players like to do, not only what they ingest. For that, we have the NBA’s annual Player Questionnaire.
Robin Lopez of the Portland Trail Blazers received this year’s questionnaire and apparently considered it a little silly. Because he decided to answer every question as if the year were 1928, not 2014. From his Instagram (via Blazersedge):
Lopez may not be entirely correct that this questionnaire is pointless — it presumably exists so various media members and public relations official can drop in delightful tidbits about players’ personal lives to humanize them. If that’s the goal, though, then Lopez’s answers fulfill the exercise about as well as could be hoped. This questionnaire is brimming with personality.
Could anyone else in the NBA match this level of understanding of the dominant pop culture of 1928? Which other starting centers are going to drop a Harold Lloyd reference? Or consider “root-marm” a real food? Not even twin brother Brook works on this level.
Lopez has served notice to the rest of the NBA. If you want to bring the laffs this season, you best come correct. Preferably in period detail.
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