Portland Trail Blazers’ player Damian Lillard has been named by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to replace injured Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin in the 2015 NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 15 in New York City, making him joined on the West team by another Trail Blazers’ player LaMarcus Aldridge, an All-Star for the fourth season.
Damian Lillard had said he was displeased about not being named an All-Star by the coaches. Silver previously replaced Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant with Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins, further increasing Lillard’s anxiety about the selection process. It’s reasonable for him to feel disrespected because he produces at a high level. He averages 21.6 points and 6.3 assists a game for the 34-17 Blazers. Many people believed he deserved to be there, so they were surprised at his initial exclusion even though there are so many outstanding backcourt players in the Western Conference.
The commissioner's selection may ease that pain. However, a Blazers fan Josh Thatcher may be crying.
When Damian Lillard was left off the team and he expressed how bad it was for him and how upset he felt, a Portland fan Josh Thatcher was right there with him but it’s even worse for him—he had bet on the Internet On Saturday, Jan. 29 that he would eat a shoe if Lillard didn’t make the All-Star team.
Josh Thatcher is a man of his word. He posted a video to his Instagram page last Saturday. It recorded the process that he ate a shoe. Thatcher got a used baby shoe from a Goodwill thrift store, boiled it and then made it into pieces. Next he mixed some pieces with fruit and pressed the mixture into juice. At the end of the video he drank the juice. It’s as part of a larger smoothie（一种饮料）, but this is still a pretty incredible commitment to one’s word.
Thatcher needn’t have eaten that shoe. But how could he predict another Western Conference player should go down and Lillard later made the team as an injury replacement?
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