The usual introductions had taken place, with a particularly warm welcome for their former darling, Steven Adams, but the match between Memphis and Oklahoma City had to wait a bit. The reason ? The two teams arrived with their set of white jerseys!
The scene was rather hilarious with the players staring at each other from top to bottom, on each side of the field, and the frank laughter of the referees and even members of each staff. In this case, one of the two “equipment attendants” must have made a mistake somewhere…
“I was just hoping that we weren’t the team that had to go change”reacted Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
In the end, it was the Grizzlies who had the wrong shirt, so they had to return to the locker room to correct this misstep, by putting on their dark blue jersey.
“When I realized that they too were wearing white, I said to myself: ‘What is this delirium? They are off the mark'”, smiled Darius Bazley, author of his career high 29 points. “I know that Wilson [Taylor, le spécialiste logistique du Thunder] is very careful about that. I knew it wasn’t our fault. »
While the Grizzlies were changing, Rumble the Bison kept the audience at a brick festival (normal, in Bricktown) busy with their backs to the midfield basket, while the Thunder announcer announced an additional five-day warm-up session. minutes. A session finally canceled, in agreement with the two captains.
“I had done enough shooting, I was ready to play”, confirm SGA.
This is not the first clothing hiccup at OKC since, last year against the Hawks, the Thunder wore their orange uniforms for half time against those, red, of Atlanta.
“The Series Continues”laughed Mark Daigneault…
As Ralph Lawler explainedthe legendary former commentator of the Clippers on social networks a posteriori, the simplest thing would still be to keep the timeless logic according to which the receiving team plays in white when the moving team plays with its colored jersey.
