![]() ![]() You can follow this author on Twitter at. But he did get to drink Mountain Dew worry-free, and that’s basically the same thing.įor more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. Read that sentence again and make it make sense (spoiler: you can’t).īutler never got to play in the Finals like Bryant did in the years after the trade (he got a ring with the Mavericks in 2011, but he was injured all season). After just one season, the Lakers traded Butler and Chucky Atkins to the Washington Wizards for Kwame Brown. Buckets.”įortunately for Butler, he didn’t have to wait too long to Do The Dew again. Everybody else was asking for the Gatorade Tiger and all that, I was like ‘go in my locker.’ The ball kid was like ‘go in your locker?’ I said ‘put two ice cubes and put the Mountain Dew in a Gatorade cup.’ And hey. But I held true to it, I only drunk it in the third and fourth quarters. But the second I went to Washington I was back on that. And I just pivoted away from Mountain Dew for the remainder of the season. “So we was on the bus and he comes to the back and I literally had a Mountain Dew, one-liter or two-liter bottle, and I immediately tried to hide it and he was like ‘come on, man, you can’t be putting that in your body, what the hell you doing CB?’ And from that moment I was like, I’m gonna stop drinking Mountain Dew. Whatever I eat is good because it’s good to me.’ You know what I mean? What are you putting in your body?’ I was just like ‘I eat good,’ like me thinking from the South, like ‘I eat good. “And I was like ‘fuel, what?’ And he was like ‘man, you gotta be premium. You’re a Mercedes Benz, you’re a hybrid, you’re not supposed to be huffing and puffing like that. You’re huffing and puffing a little bit too much. And fast-forward to our first game of the season, and he’s just like ‘man, you look good, your game is sharp, but you be like, getting winded sometimes. Because I started blackout sessions with Kobe right after he signed a contract, and he had signed a contract. During a recent appearance on “The Lowe Post,” Butler told Zach Lowe about the encounter with Bryant that made him stop drinking Mountain Dew, at least while he was in Los Angeles:ĭid you really hide that you drank Mountain Dew from Kobe? Best of all, he and Bryant got along well, which is more than Bryant and O’Neal could have said at the time.īryant did take issue with one Butler’s habits, though, and that was Butler’s love for Mountain Dew. ![]() His second season wasn’t nearly as spectacular, but he was still an intriguing young talent. 10 overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft, averaged 15.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.8 steals in his rookie season with the Heat. The Lakers acquired Butler, Lamar Odom, Brian Grant and a future first-round pick from the Heat in exchange for The Big Aristotle, and while none of the players that Los Angeles got in return for O’Neal were anywhere near as dominant as he was, they were good, foundational pieces for the rebuild - Butler especially.īutler, the No. The Los Angeles Lakers weren’t a very good basketball team in the immediate aftermath of the trade that sent Shaquille O’Neal to the Miami Heat, but they were still watchable because of the promising young tandem of Kobe Bryant and Caron Butler. ![]()
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