This is one of the greatest moments in the history of basketball. A backdrop:
Two titans of the Western conference were facing off in Game 4 of a tightly contested first round series in 2006. The Los Angeles Clippers, emboldened by their venerable owner Donald Sterling, managed to make the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade of futility. Here they faced the Denver Nuggets, led by a svelte Carmelo Anthony.
The Clippers, the 6th seed in the WC, were improbably up 2-1 heading into Game 4 at LA against the 3rd seed Nuggets. In danger of going down 3-1 on the road, the Nuggets had their backs against the ropes.
The Clippers started off well, and were leading by 5 in the 2nd quarter. The game was getting away from the Nuggets, and Reggie Evans knew it. All the hard work put in during the season, going down the drain. As Chris Kaman boxed Evans out for a rebound, desperation set in.
Chris Kaman later admitted that although he was angered by the affront of Reggie Evans, he was more confused by the fact that he was half-chubbed. He explained that he pushed Evans because it was a "poor time to be questioning his sexuality" [in the middle of a playoff game, I presume]. Despite this confusing time, the Clippers pulled out the win in Game 4, and closed the junk-grabbing Nuggets in Game 5.
Sources say that Evans came to the locker room to apologize to Kaman at the end of their series. Apparently Evans offered to touch penises with Kaman, as a formal apology for his jailhouse tactics in Game 4. Kaman declined, and Evans was scared off by Sam Cassell grinning in a towel too small for his alien body.
The Clippers, galvanized by Kaman's traumatic experience, rallied their ugly-ass team to 7 straight championships, surpassing Jordan's Bulls as the greatest team of the modern era. A moment that truly transformed the NBA as we know it