Interesting profile of Kwame Brown, the 20-year-old who just finished his first year in the NBA. It’s been a rough adjustment.

A plate of strangely shaped fried seafood arrives at the table.

“Is that like fried shrimp?” he asks.

“That’s calamari,” Nasser says. “It’s squid.”

“You shouldn’t have told him that,” Ferrell says.

Brown looks stricken.

“Squid,” he repeats.

“You should have just let him eat it,” Ferrell says with a laugh.

22 April 2002



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