Romeo Langford's inevitable greatness was derailed by thumb injury at IU. But even as he clings to the NBA with the Spurs, he's still the same Romeo.
But Romeo stayed in San Antonio all offseason, playing pickup games with teammates, winning them over on the court and off, and entered training camp with a shot at the last spot. He and Wieskamp were “on the bubble,” according to theGarbage time. Spurs ahead by 28. After getting four minutes earlier, Romeo plays the final seven minutes. Utah is rallying, eventually cutting the lead to six in the final 70 seconds, but it’s Romeo who shuts the door.
Romeo’s walking this way, toward his locker. He’s not smiling, but then, he rarely smiles in interview settings. And when he does, it’s a tiny smile, sly, almost embarrassed … and there it is. There’s the sly smile. He looks comfortable, and time’s short – it’s about an hour before tipoff, and the locker room will close to the media in 10 minutes – so I get right to it: You sealed your roster spot at Utah, I’m saying. Were you aware of the stakes that night?That’s all you do! I’m practically shouting at him. Then I tell him what Bates-Diop had said, about being funny. No response.Same Romeo.
“It was a big adjustment,” he says, “a lot more fast-paced. Now it’s not for fun, it’s your job now. You’ve got to take a lot more things seriously.”You’re getting older, I tell him. Soon you’ll be losing your hair like me! I tell him about the mohawk I had in 2012, how it grew around a bald spot I didn’t know was there until gigantic Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, of all people, pointed it out by placing a thumb on my exposed scalp.
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