If you've seen one NBA mixtape on YouTube, you've seen them all, right? Most of them are just flashy dunk highlights put to a profanity-laced rap beat. But Chris Kaman is a different kind of cat, both on the court and off, and in hindsight, it shouldn't have been a surprise to see that his YouTube channel doesn't feature any basketball at all. What does it feature? Try a .50 caliber rifle and municipal-grade fireworks -- all being used in his backyard. No, really -- video evidence is after the jump, as well as his interview with Elie Seckbach in which he discusses his explosion-filled and bullet-riddled summer vacation.
I'm sure he had a permit for that, right? Moving on -- to his insane fireworks show. From the YouTube description: "NBA Center Chris Kaman and his friends light municipal sized fireworks in his front lawn. Fortunately it only cost about $6,000."
A more accurate description would have read: "Watch Chris Kaman nearly kill himself! And stay for the massive explosion at the end when Chris and his friends tie a bunch of mortars together and light the fuses without putting them in a tube!" Seriously, if you watch anything, at least skip ahead to the 2:20 mark -- it's like an outtake from a Michael Bay movie.
I hate to pass judgment without knowing all of the details, but assuming this was filmed at his Michigan home, there's absolutely no way those fireworks are legal. (And that last explosion at the end? It's stunts like that which convince Michigan lawmakers to keep those kinds of fireworks illegal. Just saying.)
/ moralizing.
And now, here's FanHouse's Elie Seckbach, who recently caught up with Kaman and talked about his summer, as well as his predictions for the upcoming season.
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10-28-2009 @ 6:31PM
chilly16 said...
I hope he has the video running when plaxico's himself. great gun safety moron.
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10-28-2009 @ 8:10PM
Giles said...
For 70% of the internet, it gives them a warm, wholesome, family oriented feeling when white boys play with guns, boys will be boys, but terrifying when "colored boys" play with guns, they feel those animals should be put in a cage (though they also feel black men should be caged if they DON`T play with guns). Like the only story we have about Davis is a "friend" tried to combine driving with trying to beat Davis up. Davis is 6`9, 290 or more. How many folks COULD beat him up, much less drive a car properly at the same time. But the Celtics are suspending DAVIS, for allegedly defending everyone from the seemingly out of touch with reality driver whose actions threatened to kill anyone in the vicinity? Maybe they don`t believe the only report we have about what happened. If Plaxico were white, maybe they`d hire him to play Moses instead of sending him to jail (though he shouldn`t have put himself in the position to have the accident he had, of course, and was lucky no one else was hurt, of course). Dangerous is fun with a white guy, scary with a black guy? Danger isn`t danger, it is race that is danger, the other race, that is?
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