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Come Fan with UsMonday, July 6, 2026

Kenyon Martin, April Fools, And The Best Locker Room Story Of The Year

Earlier today, I wrote about how I used to dream up scenes from a Real World-type reality show for athletes. Courtesy of ESPN, what follows could easily be a storyline from one of those episodes. What happens when locker rooms start getting real…

↵One roommate’s prank goes a little too far:

↵↵A former Nuggets ball boy, Laquan Johnson, got into the club’s locker room, took Kenyon Martin’s car keys and filled the player’s Range Rover with buttered popcorn. The car had a white interior.

↵↵The other roommate flips out and threatens, nay, guarantees physical retaliation:

↵↵“That ain’t no [expletive] joke,” Martin said. “I’m going to find out who did it … put my [expletive] hands on one of y’all. I’m going to put my hands on whoever did it. You better believe that. It’s [expletive] personal. You better believe it.”

↵↵And suddenly, the whole house is threatened:

↵↵“How ‘bout if I don’t play in the playoffs until somebody tells me who did it,” Martin said more than once.

↵↵Time for a house meeting, y’all.

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Star-divide

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And on a serious note, you gotta love that, more than once, he threatened to sabotage the entire team because of his Range Rover. The car did have white interior…

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