When the Los Angeles Lakers were in town in early January, I’d planned on getting with Andrew Bynum on a quick story about his season – with the help of Lakers assistant Chuck Persons, who put the kid through a rough pregame workout.

After his pregame warm-ups I slipped into the Lakers locker room where Bynum was busy at his locker.

He was reading Mitch Albom’s, “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, and looked heavily into the read to the point where I didn’t bother interrupting him.

While the Bynum feature never materialized (scrapped it for another story), this one did from the Wall Street Journal on NBA players getting their read on (even Channing Frye makes time for scripture). The story by Hannah Karp is well done and contains this line that jumped out for obvious reasons:

“A spokesman for the Portland Trail Blazers says the handful of players on the team who cozy up with novels didn't feel comfortable revealing themselves.”

That's kind of funny. I can imagine who those guys are – and I’m sure my fellow Blazers insiders can shed some insight here (Rudy, Greg, Nicolas, Juwan are my guess by the way....maybe Martell).  But I just don’t get the secrecy or reasons for discomfort. I'm not big on book clubs myself, but I've been known to juggle a couple reads at once (currently reading "The Night of the Gun", by David Carr and David Kindred's "Sound and Fury" - by the way).

Anyone care to opine?

photo: nba.com

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