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 Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 9:00 am Post subject: Lou Williams reportedly switched hotels to avoid ghost at Oklahoma City Hotel |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/12/19/lou-williams-switched-hotels-to-avoid-ghost-at-oklahoma-city-hotel/?postshare=4691450575597724&tid=ss_tw
| Quote: | Lou Williams reportedly switched hotels to avoid ghost at Oklahoma City hotel
The Lakers’ Lou Williams can blame Los Angeles’s loss Saturday on ghosts, but that won’t change the team’s 2-16 road record. (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
What’s the true value of home-field advantage? Across sports, data defends the theory that playing at home leads to better results. As for why, the answers from athletes vary, ranging from familiarity with the court or field to support from the crowd to the opportunity to sleep in their own beds.
And it’s that last circumstance, the comfort of living and sleeping at home, that probably sounds best to Lakers guard Lou Williams right now.
Before Los Angeles lost to Oklahoma City on Saturday night, a report surfaced that Williams left the Skirvin Hilton Hotel, where the team stayed the night before, and checked himself into a different hotel to avoid an encounter with Effie the ghost, who has been rumored to haunt the 104-year-old Oklahoma City landmark.
From a New York Times profile in 2014:
The legend holds that Effie was a housekeeper during the early years of the Skirvin, a luxury downtown hotel, before its 10 brick floors were expanded to 14 in 1930. W. B. Skirvin, the hotel’s widowed owner, supposedly had an affair with Effie and, when she became pregnant, ordered her to stay locked inside a room on an upper floor, even after she had the baby. At some point, the story goes, Effie went crazy, grabbed the baby and jumped, killing herself and the child. …
Still, it is not unlike countless ghost stories retold about old hotels around the country. What makes the Skirvin different is that the most notable tellers — and victims — of its supposed haunting are N.B.A. players. The phenomenon seems to have begun in January 2010, when some of the Knicks said that a loss in Oklahoma City could be blamed, in part, on a restless night at the Skirvin. …
Weeks later, Chicago’s Taj Gibson said that his bathroom door at the Skirvin had slammed in the middle of the night for no reason. His teammate Derrick Rose was among the Bulls who heard strange bangs and bumps and became a believer.
“It was scary last night,” Rose said.
Williams’ belief in the supernatural is hardly unique among professional athletes. Eddie Curry told the Daily News that while visiting the Skirvin with the New York Knicks in 2010 that he barely slept because he was thinking about the poltergeist infestation. Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel, a popular destination for MLB teams visiting from out of town, has been rumored to be haunted by spirits. Former Giants’ teammates Pablo Sandoval and Edgar Rentaria had an incident involving a ghost and switched to a different hotel, per a 2010 San Francisco Weekly story. The piece also mentions Astros outfielder Carlos Gomez, who reportedly “heard voices in his room, then watched his iPod subsequently go haywire.”
When the Arizona Cardinals had a pair of east coast games in back-to-back weeks this October, the team spent the week at the historic Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. There, safety Tony Jefferson believes he heard a little girl’s voice one night.
It’s not just American athletes getting spooked, either. In 2005, Bangledesh’s cricket team famously upset the Australian team in Cardiff, and reports spread that the Aussies went relatively sleepless the night before after encountering 700-year-old ghosts in the hotel.
Unfortunately for Williams and the Lakers, they have as many wins at home as they do on the road (two), so the ghost excuse only carries so much weight in the 40-point blowout to the Thunder.
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| Pretty cool.. |
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| Quote: | | His teammate Eddy Curry said he slept just two hours one night. He was the only player assigned to the supposedly spooky 10th floor, and he spent most of his time in Nate Robinson’s room, afraid to be alone. |
I think this is really fascinating. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| I have stayed in a bunch of these old hotels and they're definitely spooky, but the spooky stuff can all be explained easily. It's usually a mix of the structure of the building being very old and making lots of settling noises and also the poor soundproofing. With more modern architecture, we take peace for granted. |
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| I'm surprised that they didn't mention the hotel in Oakland where visiting teams stay being haunted I mean even Tim Duncan said he was afraid |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Byron was right, Lakers were scared of OKC.
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Eddie Jones would have busted that ghost.
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| Mindripper2000 wrote: | | Quote: | | His teammate Eddy Curry said he slept just two hours one night. He was the only player assigned to the supposedly spooky 10th floor, and he spent most of his time in Nate Robinson’s room, afraid to be alone. |
I think this is really fascinating. |
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| Mindripper2000 wrote: | | Quote: | | His teammate Eddy Curry said he slept just two hours one night. He was the only player assigned to the supposedly spooky 10th floor, and he spent most of his time in Nate Robinson’s room, afraid to be alone. |
I think this is really fascinating. |
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I ain't afraid of no ghost.
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| Byron gonna make the the young players stay up all night to chase ghosts. Just gotta #ManUp |
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| If only that ghost took Bill Simmons away but even a ghost has their standards.... |
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Reports were that the when the ghost appears it has its arms crossed and yells things like "man up" and "play harder"
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| benching for Lou for not manning up |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Reports were that the when the ghost appears it has its arms crossed and yells things like "man up" and "play harder" |
Going to sleep? You can sleep when you are dead. |
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If this ghost does exist, wouldn't that prove that there is life after death?
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The scariest thing that happen in OKC was a 40 point loss. Now that's some crap that gonna haunt the Lakers for seasons to come.
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| I used to stay at the Queen Mary, I had a lot of encounters with things that I could not explain. There were strange conversations I would over hear in empty rooms, my cell phone stopped working and never worked again, like it had been fried. I would hear footsteps in my room, a lot of strange occurrences. I'm a believer. |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Reports were that the when the ghost appears it has its arms crossed and yells things like "man up" and "play harder" |
Best post of the day |
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| They have the same thing in San Diego. Where players would stay at another hotel. |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | Reports were that the when the ghost appears it has its arms crossed and yells things like "man up" and "play harder" |
That's gold. 
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