



While most NBA stars have more than a few prank stories to share, Danny Green isn’t one of them.

As you can imagine, forcing rookies to wear pink backpacks isn’t exactly a focal point of Gregg Popovich’s championship style in San Antonio, so we can forgive Green for a lack of fun prank stories. But Jeremy Lin, his new Raptors teammate, shared a doozy on the latest episode of the Inside the Green Room podcast.

While he isn’t willing to name any names — “I’m not a snitch” — Lin breaks down just how tough the rookies had it in Atlanta. Children’s backpacks, Kripsy Kreme donuts, ample humiliation — the whole nine. But there’s one particular story that had Lin feeling really bad for one unnamed rookie.

“In Atlanta, one of the rookies has to bring three dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to everything,” Lin explains in the video above. “It doesn’t matter if it’s the plane, shootaround, practice. Once a day, you’ve gotta bring it to the first team function that you have.

“But the rookies had forgotten a couple days in a row, and so an anonymous veteran — who is not me, but I’m not a snitch — was fed up with it and popcorned their car. And when I say popcorn, I mean, like, you open the door and a ton of popcorn comes out. And it’s buttered popcorn, and these are nice cars!”

“Bro, I’ve never felt worse for a rookie. I felt so bad, I was like, ‘man I need to help clean in some way.'”

But did the affable veteran actually help the hapless rookie clean up his car?

“I mean, I ate a few pieces of popcorn, so in some sense I did help to remove a small portion of popcorn that was in there.”

“I literally felt bad. I mean not bad enough to really help, but bad. And I was like, ‘man, it really sucks to be a rookie!'”

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