Boris Diaw is a role model…for Manu Ginobili.
Ever the energetic contributor, Diaw needs to get regular caffeine fixes. Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News recently relayed the story of how Biaw was rescued from drinking pre-game sludge the AT&T Center, the San Antonio Spurs’ home court, passed off as coffee. He now has a working espresso machine in his locker, and his fellow Spurs love him for it.
Take what Ginobili had to say of Diaw, per McDonald:
LaMarcus Aldridge has nicknamed Diaw “Tea Time” for the carefree way he ambles about the court.
It’s an apt sobriquet for a 33-year-old Frenchman who treats even the NBA Finals as if it were a weekend stroll down the Champs-Elysees.
“I’ve said to him many times, ‘I would like to be you so much,’” guard Manu Ginobili said. “His worst day is many times better than most of our best days. He lives in a different place.”
It’s kind of difficult to believe that Boris Diaw was, only a few years ago, on the verge of flaming out of the NBA because the historically bad Charlotte Bobcats weren’t using him properly. Now he’s in San Antonio, an NBA champion, slurping and slinging high-end cups of caffeine, embodying everything about these Spurs: ageless, versatile, energetic and, most importantly, appreciative of the smaller things, such as on-demand caffeinated beverages, in life.
