Word around the
NBA is that Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City is haunted—yet some teams still have their players stay there when they visit the
Oklahoma City Thunder.
Perhaps after hearing
Metta World Peace's story, teams will rethink their plans in the future.
The
Los Angeles Lakers played the Thunder in OKC on Sunday, and a few players shared their personal experiences at the supposedly haunted hotel with
Mark Medina of the Orange County Register. It would surprise nobody that the hoopster formerly known as Ron Artest had the wildest story.
"The ghosts were all over me. I just accepted it," World Peace said, per Medina. "They touched me all over the place. I'm taking one of the ghosts to court for touching me in the wrong places."
Oh.
A story like that makes you wonder why he wouldn't go elsewhere. After all, Medina reported that Lou Williams and Larry Nance Jr. paid for their own rooms at a different hotel because they didn't want to stay somewhere that was haunted.
World Peace had a classic Artest answer: "I was watching a good movie [
Money Monster] and I was tired. I didn't want to move."
All right, then. Apparently some movies are so good that players are willing to put up with ghosts. Good to know.
For what it's worth, the Thunder handed the Lakers a 113-96 defeat, the purple and gold's ninth straight loss in OKC. Perhaps the team should stay in a different hotel next time to see if that changes the mojo.
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