Caron Butler's Movie Debut
Caron's new teammate.
Things learned while clinging to the back of Caron Butler's golf cart for about nine holes at Congressional Country Club. (It's Tiger Woods media day out here, if you didn't know.)
1) Within the next few weeks, Caron will film his Hollywood debut, a bit part in "The Patriots," the Hurricane Katrina-themed basketball movie starring Forest Whitaker, Isaiah Washington, Bow Wow and Lil Wayne, that's set to be released this winter.
2) No, really.
3) If you're a world-famous NBA basketball player and you've never so much as swung a golf club in your life, maybe the sixth fairway of Congressional Country Club isn't the best place to start.
4) The Caron-Roger Mason foursome included three other people: Chick Hernandez, Darrell Green and Rock Cartwright. All three struck me as fairly excellent golfers compared to me, and as high-level PGA pros compared to the Wizards.
5) Rock didn't go to Chris Cooley's wedding last weekend (photo gallery here, set to "Don't Stop Believing," of course) but he is planning on going to Santana Moss's celebrity birthday celebration this next weekend. There are at least three other mega-D.C.-sports-celebrity party events over the following two weekends. What a great month.
6) John Feinstein just arrived and came up to me, saying "what are you doing here? There's no Wizards here. You must be in the wrong place." Then I told him Roger Mason Jr. and Caron Butler had just left. "Oh, that explains it," he said. I can't believe I'm that predictable.
7) The car I parked across from in the Congressional parking lot? Yeah, it was a BMW with a vanity license plate reading "Exeter."
8) After a few holes, Darrell Green handed his BlackBerry to a now-retired Caron Butler and told him to enter his cell phone number. "That's how you network," Caron told me after he handed back the device. "Write a blog about that." Meantime, Green told the Wizards they should henceforth call me "BlogDog."
9) Other Caron Butler offseason activities: two basketball camps in D.C., "Caron Butler Day" in Racine, a recently completed trip to DisneyWorld and a purchase of a Bentley.
"I'm 28 now," he said in explaining the Bentley purchase. "I've got to get something to make me feel young. Well, younger."
10) Mason, meantime, scored a Mercedes-Benz CL63 and is planning a three-day event to raise money for kidney research in late July. I accidentally drifted off when Mason was telling us about the charity event; "Small things make a what? A BIG difference," Butler scolded me. "Anytime a Wizard does something, it's major."
11) Caron and Roger agreed that Tiger is the biggest athlete in America. After some discussion, they decided that LeBron James and Kobe Bryant were likely two and three, possibly followed by Peyton Manning. Roger's "Top Six in D.C." list was Gilbert, Portis, Campbell, Butler, Ovechkin and Zimmerman, in that order. The order was different, but the names were identical to the Top Six I identified almost exactly a year ago.
Much more on all these stories in the near future, of course.
By Dan Steinberg |
May 27, 2008; 2:24 PM ET
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Posted by: Unsilent Majority | May 27, 2008 2:46 PM
"Top Six in D.C."
Maybe next year, Anthony and Lamont
Posted by: Unsilent Majority | May 27, 2008 2:50 PM
1. Caron also had a bit part in Joe Budden's debut music vid, "Pump It Up."
2. The fact that he said "Write a blog about that" instead of "write a post about that," communicates that he should be appropriately ripped on Blog Show.
Posted by: StetSports.com | May 27, 2008 3:15 PM
Obviously Chris Cooley should be added to that list, now.
Posted by: Skin Patrol | May 27, 2008 3:43 PM
How did Caron even find clubs that fit? But man, if he ever gets that weight transfer down, with as long as that swing will be ...
Long John Daly will have nothing on that.
Posted by: DC Centurion's Shield | May 27, 2008 3:54 PM
Caron's filming a movie this summer? Doesn't anyone over on Fun Street remember "My Giant" and Gheorghe's career ending foot injury? Those who do not learn the lessons of history ....
Posted by: Anonymous | May 27, 2008 3:57 PM
I just wanted to write a comment that ends with an ellipsis...
Posted by: Lindemann | May 27, 2008 4:08 PM
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Feinstein and Steinberg? You two must have put quite a scare into the gentile membership at Congo.