Harrison Wind: More from Paul Millsap: He says he brought his own food and is on his own diet at Disney World. “I’m on like a sardine diet with crackers. So I’m good. I don’t really look at the food or whatever they have.”
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Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum is known for his ankle-breaking crossovers and a smooth jumper on the court. Just like the state of Oregon is known for having a unique and rich soil that makes for a tasty pinot noir red wine. But now, McCollum is getting ready to release his very own signature pinot noir wine called Heritage 91 this fall through a partnership with Adelsheim Vineyards in Newberg, Oregon.
First experience drinking wine: “I didn’t like it the first time. I felt like it was bland. I’m a guy that enjoys lemonade. Part of the reason why I didn’t like it was because of my lack of wine experience. We weren’t really drinking great wine, so to speak. You come out here in Oregon and it’s so diverse. You have so many different types of grapes, you have so many different vineyards who provide pinot noir from different types of soil. We’re actually spoiled.” — CJ McCollum
A new vegan restaurant in San Bernardino is celebrating its opening on Friday, June 26 with a ribbon-cutting and an evening party. Cafe Organix is co-owned by NBA star John Salley, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers, the Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat, the Detroit Pistons, and the Toronto Raptors.
Teammates have come and gone in McCollum’s seven years in Portland, but having wine together on the road has been so constant, CJ is the one most responsible for which bottles the team orders at dinner. “Typically I get the menu I get to pick it out,” McCollum said. “Coach Terry [Stotts] likes a lot of different cabs, so he orders the cabs, I order the different Oregon Pinots, then Geoff Clark, the head trainer, he orders a lot of different wines so we have a nice little system going.” And McCollum isn’t shy about trying to convince his teammates to get on his wine level. “It’s been cool to see how people have kind of evolved, [Damian Lillard] specifically he’s more of a white wine guy and I was like, ‘bro, you gotta stop drinking that stuff and move over to the red.’ Now he’s slowly started drinking red wine.”
We don’t have to tell all this to Lost Tavern Brewing, a brewing company based out of Pennsylvania within the greater Philadelphia area. If I were to guess, Iverson might already have their votes, especially after the brand new beer release that they announced on their Instagram page today. The new brew, named in tribute to Iverson’s well-known rant and clearly featuring the famous Iverson-over-Lue play, went on presale on Thursday. To no one’s surprise, the presale filled up quickly.
Biyombo doesn’t want to squander the opportunity he’s earned. As an example, those who know him well speak to his diligence in the weight room and focus on nutrition. Adcock says the nine-year NBA veteran is always working on a diet of some kind. He often requests food substitutions or orders unlisted items at restaurants. “All he eats is plants. Plants and fruits,” his teammate Cody Zeller adds. “I’m like, How do you have enough energy to play in games. But he’s crazy strong.”
By switching to a plant-based diet, Chris Paul believed he had found a competitive advantage. “I almost don’t like to tell nobody about it, to be honest,” the Thunder guard said during the Partnership for a Healthier America summit on Tuesday. “It’s almost like my secret. But I’m just not built that way. I like to try to share that knowledge with other people because it also goes back to education.”
“The first week I saw my body transform, just the feeling of it,” Paul told the summit attendees. “Just to tell you a quick story, I was working out at the time, I was training. I’ve been playing for years and years, and usually when I’m training I wake up with a lot of muscle soreness. That’s just part of training, and when you’re an athlete, you’re just used to it. You’re like, ‘Ah I’m achy, I’m achy.’”
Chris Paul: “I got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom, and I wasn’t aching. I was walking; I was feeling good. I was like, ‘Hold on, I’ve been playing too long for this not to be hurting.’ So, I went in with my trainer the next day, and I was like, ‘Are we doing something wrong? Am I not going hard enough?’”
Matt Poley, co-owner of Heirloom L.A. along with his partner, Tara Maxey, introduced “The Last Dance Menu” at their catering business last week. The traditional Chicago dishes, named after prominent characters on those Chicago Bulls teams, coincide with the 10-part documentary and served as a creative way to drum up business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We got so many orders — almost 3,000 meals going out today. Maybe half of them have ‘The Last Dance’ menu stuff on it.” As the top dog throughout Chicago’s championship runs, the Jordan dish was an easy choice. “It’s undisputed that the Chicago hot dog is the greatest hot dog of all time,” Poley said. “So it’s undisputed that Michael Jordan should be the greatest hot dog of all time.”
He filled out the tasting options by marrying more staples of Chicago cuisine with Bulls figures. There’s a vegan carrot hot dog for Dennis Rodman “that’s colorful, that’s flamboyant and all over the place,” Poley said. There’s an Italian beef sandwich served with Croatian Goveda Juha [beef soup] to recognize Toni Kukoc.
One company is searching for an ‘NBA Food Tester’ to eat delicious stadium dishes and earn some money at the same time. According to the ad on Pickswise.com, if you’re chosen, you’ll get $500 along with a minimum of 3-5 tickets for the 2019-2020 season and expenses to taste-test food at each stadium.
2019 might just be the year that pro basketball’s love of caviar comes into focus — at least if the people at Pearl Street Caviar have their way. The New York City-based caviar brand has recently teamed up with NBA LAB, the league’s research and development incubator, to release a line of NBA team-branded caviar tins.
The Los Angeles Lakers, Brooklyn Nets, Miami Heat, New York Knicks, Houston Rockets, and Golden State Warriors have all gotten their own caviars — available in slim 12-gram “personal size” tins and classic 30-gram tins — in two different varieties: Siberian Select caviar or the pricier Keluga caviar.
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