Monday, May 28, 2007

Random Athlete Encounter #1: Chris Gatling

For those of you who do not remember, Chris Gatling was the Golden State Warrior's power forward in the early 1990's, although he may be best remembered now for getting dunked on mercilessly by Shawn Kemp and then giving the Rainman a congratulatory handshake once Kemp returned to earth. You can watch it on this top 10 video of Kemp's best dunks. The one where Gatling gets dunked on is #5.
I find this interesting considering Gatling had a couple of the best dunks of the 90's as far as I'm concerned, one a two handed rip off a missed three where he took off just inside the free throw line and threw down on David Robinson and another one on Manute Bol circa 1992 at a game I was at at the Arena that I still remember vividly.

This random encounter actually occurred just a few months ago in Vegas during the now infamous NBA All-Star weekend. I was out there primarily for a friend's bachelor party weekend that he scheduled months in advance not realizing that it was going to be one of the more insane weekends in Vegas history. Accordingly, we were forced to stay at the Hooters Casino behind the MGM which I now fully and quite surprisingly recommend. After the first night there where we entertained the bachelor at a fine Gentleman's establishment for a few hours (thank God not the Minxx where Pacman Jones had his little run-in with club security) we were all feeling quite unmotivated the next morning. Not being one to be easily deterred while having only a couple days in Vegas, I quickly ordered up a couple bloody mary's to get me going the next morning while almost everyone else in my party decided to get some food and just pass out for a few hours. With only a couple of us semi-conscious, I found out one of my buddies was betting on horse-races at the MGM sports book and realized this was the perfect way to spend my pre-All Star game Sunday. This is mostly because horse-racing is the only form of betting I ever manage to come out ahead in, blackjack's about even and poker I always get cleaned out.

So I get to the MGM sports book and my friend's got a nice little set up at the personal monitors and they have about 8 different races you can switch between so I get set up and begin a furious pattern of scoping out the ponies in the various races and running back and forth so that I get my bets in before the ponies start racing. Somehow in my ecstacy I failed to realize that two guys about 6'5 and 6'10 had sat down right next to me. So I'm ordering free Corona's and getting animated about these horses and I realize one of the guys next to me keeps happening to be betting on the same horses as I am by chance. On the first bet we both had a nice win on the same horse and we start talking and he says it's the first time he's ever bet on horses and he pulled out the win and I thought he looked familiar but I had horses to focus on... this was serious business. So we're yelling at the horses as they win and lose, just enjoying a typical Vegas Sunday, and then some more of my friends start showing up to say what's up and join us betting on horses, including another huge Warrior's fan. He looks over and tells me that the guy I'm betting on horses with is Chris Gatling.

Now, for most of you, seeing Chris Gatling would be probably not be a huge deal. But for me, I first started getting into basketball just when Gatling came into the league so I totally reverted back to my childhood and, not to mention the inspiration from the free Coronas, I was stoked. So I look over at him and say "dude, are you Chris Gatling?" - kind of like I was addressing the King of Spain. He looks over clearly surprised at being recognized and considering every living basketball celebrity was in Vegas that weekend and I'm clearly very excited at seeing him, he was just like "yeah." So I was like, "man, I remember going to a game in Oakland and seeing you dunk over Manute Bol when I was a kid. F'ing awesome!" And he replied "Cool" and I swear he gave me the same handshake he gave Shawn Kemp after getting dunked on back in 1993. Gotta say that made my weekend and even though some of my friends saw Jordan, and Nique, and Daryl Dawkins, etc, I couldn't have been happier than to have been betting on horses with Chris Gatling. And to put my excitement in perspective, one of my friends saw me that next week back from Vegas and all he could ask me about the weekend was "so, dwyermaker... did you get Gatling's digits or what?" All I can is that's life as a Golden State Warriors Fan, for better or worse!

--dwyermaker

Editor's note: We're gonna see if we can do a weekly post about random athlete encounters. Hopefully yours are more exciting than ours. If it's a decent story, we'll post it and link it up with our other buddy sites. We won't name you of course, we'll keep you completely anonymous. We also have no way of proving if any of the stories are true, but that's ok. We have diplomatic immunity. If you have pictures, even better.

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25 comments:

Anonymous said...

check out www (dot) wantedposters (dot) com......Chris is a deadbeat dad. A friend told me he now owes OVER $100,000, sold his children's house without telling them and doesn't pay for his children medical insurance. One of his kids has a disability. Ruined my image of this guy.

Anonymous said...

Chris Gatling is a deadbeat dad. Sucks. Seems as if they got game ON the court but not IN court. Step up to your game Chris!

Anonymous said...

i also heard he cheated a childhood friend out of 250,000+ chris owe an gentlemans club in houston but he was clearly the front man, his friend bank rolled the project and was left holding bag. " GOOD STEAL GATLING"

Anonymous said...

check out the following story on this link....skip ahead to page 28. This man needs to be FOUND! How can someone just leave their kids with NOTHING!?!?!?!
Link to story below:

http://csweekly.com/CSWEEKLY/september26.pdf

Anonymous said...

I used to date him for a few months back when he was with the Nuggets. He's also a cheater with a crooked penis.

Anonymous said...

"I used to date him for a few months back when he was with the Nuggets. He's also a cheater with a crooked penis."

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is "working" as a bartender in the Phoenix area.....strip club named Amazon. Obviously not getting "PAID" but more "UNDER THE TABLE". Word is he is living with friends and sleeping on their couches (with coke heads and strippers according to one site). Contact the California Department of Child Support Services with ANY information you have on him (phone numbers, cell numbers, addresses, sightings, "work", etc....). He NEEDS to grow up and accept responsibilities! He has done nothing but lied Lied LIED to EVERYONE! I feel SO sorry for all the girls he has lied too....because that is all he is....a LIAR!

Anonymous said...

wow, this doesnt surprise me i use to work for Chris @Lookers Cabaret in Houston or should i say his partner who was a total gentlemen and businessman who all of us wanted to screw, 2 of us screwed Chris it was the worse F*ck i ever had and i think the other girl was to f*cked up to know. This guy is a biggggggggggggggggg liar. Partner i saw in wal-mart if your interested u know how to find me. Jay

Anonymous said...

Why am I not suprised to read all of these comments? I dated him for a while in college and he was the most selfish person I had ever met! I was so glad to be rid of him but he kept coming back like a bad penny.

Anonymous said...

Seriously...whoever this chick is who keeps going around and posting comments on every website she can seriously needs to get a life. Yeah, Gatling isn't perfect but no one is. Get over it and go get a job and stop trying to suck money out of a guy. You probably just f*cked him with out a condom thinking you were going to get a bunch of child support. MOVE ON!

Anonymous said...

Sorry Man, Gatling really is a nice guy. He has a couple of haters that have nothing better to do than to go around on the internet and post obnoxious things about him.

Anonymous said...

I, too, dated Chris Gatling and to be honest I would bet anything he is either gay or bi-sexual. Not to mention, a little on the crazy side!

Anonymous said...

LOL!! YEAH I F*CKED HIM TOO!! AN I SIDE WITH THE LAST ONE HES GOTTA BE GAY OR BI AS MUCH AS HE WANTED TO PUT IT IN MY BUTT!! LOL! THEN AGAIN WITH THE WAY HE TREATS HIS KIDS I SEE WHY... HES CURRENTLY TRYING TO GET BACK $20,000 HE GAVE HIS UNCLE TO BUY A HOUSE!! IM GLAD HES NOT IN HTOWN ANYMORE!! TRUE HE CAN BE A NICE GUY BUT I THINK THE HEAD INJURIES HE GOT AS A CHILD FUCKED UP HIS BRAIN HES COLD HEARTED AND HAS A TEMPER LIKE A 2 YEAR OLD!! HE ONCE SAID TO ME 'YOURE JUST A MOM' I WAS LIKE B*TCH WHAT??!! AT LEAST I AM A PARENT!

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know where Gat is currently?

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Anonymous said...

He lives in the biltmore near 16th s t

He works friday nights promoting @e4 in old town
Yes he is a liar!liar liar

Unknown said...

CHRIS GATLING IS A RAPIST.
HE DRUGGED ME AND RAPED ME IN A HOTEL ROOM. IF YOU KNOW HIS WHEREABOUTS PLEASE LET ME KNOW SO I CAN ALERT THE POLICE.

Anonymous said...

im glad he left houston, he's a stalker went on several dates with him and made a huge mistake of having sex with him, a waste of time, but he stalk me to no end.

Anonymous said...

loser!

Anonymous said...

damn chris what the hell are you doing

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