Bryant related a pro-Artest anecdote from the 2008 NBA Finals in which Artest, a spectator at Game 6, entered the showers in the Lakers’ locker room after Boston clinched the championship with a 39-point victory. ‘I was in there by myself,’ Bryant said. ‘He came in there and he said, ‘This is not going to happen to you [again]. I’m going to come in here and help you out.’ He wound up being in Houston, and [then] took us to Game 7. But he’s here now. It’s something we’ve both been trying to make happen for a while and here it is.’

For some reason I found this immensely entertaining.

I also have another good Ron Artest story from a friend of mine who was at the LA Transformers press junket sometime last month. Apparently she was standing there when a large Black man approached her and asked if he could have the Transformers skateboard deck that came with the gift bag. She wasn’t going to use it so she gave it to him, she later found out that the large Black man was Ron Artest. True story, apparently he’s a huge Megan Fox fan.