The weight clause in Boris Diaw’s contract went viral perhaps because of stories like this one.
Back when Diaw re-signed with the Spurs in 2014, ESPN reported there was a clause in his contract saying that if he didn’t gain weight during the season, he could make an extra $500,000. So, Diaw must’ve turned his diet to fish.
But if you eat what we can only estimate was — using our most scientific data — a million pounds of fish (hey, I said it was an estimate), then is the fish still a healthy option?
Jared Zwerling wrote one heck of a feature on Diaw at the NBPA’s website, and in it, Zwerling allows Ronny Turiaf, a former NBA player and a longtime teammate of Diaw’s on the French National Team, to tell the story of the time Boris ate a whole boatload of fish:
“Boris is the guy that’s going to go to the restaurant and order like chicken hearts—whatever odd thing that people may think it is,” he says. “And one day we were eating at this beautiful restaurant on a little cliff, and this guy brings out this crazy huge octopus that’s cooked, and everybody was surprised, like, ‘Man, I’m not going to touch this.’ And then Boris said, ‘You guys are not going to eat it? Alright, cool.’ He grabbed the plate and he ate the whole octopus, and he loves octopus. And I’m, like, ‘Boris, you are insane.’”
Octopus on it’s own isn’t that crazy. Actually, it’s delicious, and shouldn’t be that much more adventurous than having some calamari. But devouring a whole one? That’s something special. That’s what champions are made of.
Zwerling chronicles Diaw’s traveling excursions, ones that have sent him to five of the New7Wonders of the World — and he plans on visiting the final two soon. Apparently, he has even more travel plans, though, and those would carry him way farther than the Great Wall of China or the Taj Mahal.
From Zwerling:
“I will go to space at some point,” the Spurs’ veteran forward tells the NBPA in his office at his Shavano Park home, located in northwest San Antonio. “I won’t say in the next 10 years, but maybe in 30.”
Unfortunately, as far as we know, they don’t have octopus up there.
(NBPA)
