I was at the Woodlands Tinseltown theaters, waiting for the 2:20pm showing of Iron Man 2 (in the theater), and all of a sudden a tall man sitting in the front of the theater stands up, turns around, and announces: "I have to take the opportunity to say this...", introduces himself as Robert Reid of the Houston Rockets, and wishes all the moms in the theater a happy mother's day. No, I didn't have a camera. Wished I could have gotten up to him at the end of the movie to introduce my 11 year old daughter to him... I read an 2009 interview that said he was helping coach an AAU team and my daughter plays for a local AAU team. He was in the seats closest tothe exit and was out pretty quickly.
I met him at an Austin Toros game with my 2 boys.......and he was unbelievably gracious, said that the true hero they should look up to was their father. Just a class act.... DD
I met Robert Reid at a basketball camp when I was a kid. This was years after he had retired and I didn't know who he was at the time. I was just sitting around talking with him for several minutes. He was a really nice guy.
Pretty cool story to see RR. I met him in the 80's and he was s cool cat back then too. I do have a question though, didn't it feel a little odd for him to do that? I mean I took the fam to Fiesta Texas yesterday and I didn't get up on top of roller coaster platform and say "I'm Curly from Clutchfans, and I want to wish every mother here a happy Mothers Day". Sure, he has a game or two more under his belt than I do, but it sort of sounds like he was needing a little love from the people.
Sounds like if Robert Reid was portrayed on South Park or something, or maybe a dream you had? Are you sure it wasn't a dream you had? I bet it was a dream.
He saved our asses in 1986. Ralph Sampson missed John Lucas getting 400 alley opps per game, but Bobby Joe played Magic really well in the WCF. Imagine someone doing that now - your backup small forward swtiches to freaking point gaurd and leads you to the finals? How is that not a bigger story? Remember when he went on sabatical for a year? I wonder what the real story was behind that. he came back 50x mellower. I think it was 1982. I was heartbroken. I think Rudy retired the smae year... maybe those were a year apart. Regardless, that 79-80 Moses, Rudy, Calvin, Robert Reid era was t-h-e- b-e-s-t. Man, back when Bobby Joe was #50 sporting a huge afro and doing slam dunk contests in pregame warmups - he was unforgettable.
He is a regular at Houston sporting events. When I was younger I saw him at an Astros game and didn't know who he was. I got his autograph anyway because he looked like a player, when I got home I figured out who he was. Oh yeah - and this was the game Daryl Kyle threw his no-hitter
I regrettably didnt record the infamous live stream of Robert Reid on 1560 AM, drunk as a skunk liv on the air talking all kinds of craziness. A couple days after Lowry was traded to the Rockets.
How soon before the movie did you arrive? It was before the coming attractions (while the theater lights were still on), and he was sitting (and stood up) at the front right of the theater (#15). Hard to miss... and most men did stand and applaud their wives. To an earlier poster... yes, it did seem odd at first. I thought it was a sales pitch.
You better duck because the only thing Reid would rain from that distance would be bricks. I loved the player, but he wasn't much of a 3 point shooter.
Everybody remembers what he did against Magic, but he was initially recognized for doing the same thing to Bird in the Finals. Was it ever discussed? I remember he was Pentecostal and at the time he hinted that with the attention he received early in his career, he let it go to his head and heart. I thought he had said he was getting into stuff he knew he shouldn't have gotten into, so he took a break from it all. People at the time blamed his mother (Pentecostal minister) for forcing him into the sabbatical, but he denied it.
I was listening to that too. I think there is a podcast of it, its somewhere in a 1560 thread. Maybe puff/David Nuno can help find it. Edit, here it is, podcast link at post #44: http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=4258594
