If nothing else, Mozgov will up the Lakers’ local commercial game.
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He won’t need the hat anymore.
He referenced that last one at the Cavs’ championship parade, after greeting the crowd with “From Russia with love.” The actual transcript from the stage in Cleveland
All right, Timo, when is the next commercial coming out?
I don’t know.
He has no idea. So, advertisers out there, you’re available, right?
Yeah. Call my agent.
What will you remember most about this experience?
The Brew Garden (laughs). For the rest of my life, I will remember that I was a piece of the best team in the world.
A little later, LeBron James also dropped an F-bomb in reference to Mozgov, in the middle of some compliment-type story about the first time the two met after Cleveland acquired Mozgov via a trade with the Knicks,
“So I come down the elevator and Timo is in the lobby and I swear it looked like I was seeing like the biggest human being I’ve ever seen in my life. I looked at (GM David Griffin). He said, “He’s a big motherf—, ain’t he? I said, ‘He is absolutely.’ And when I seen him the very next night, he sprints from baseline to baseline, blocked shots, tipped dunks, alley-oops. I said we’ve got a great one, and also, Timo, thank you so much. You’re a champion as well.”
And now he’s rich.
