The NBA is investigating what Clippers guard Lou Williams did during his absence from Orlando to determine how long he will be required to quarantine, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic.
ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne tweets that pictures emerged of Williams at an Atlanta gentleman’s club Thursday night alongside rapper Jack Harlow, who later deleted the post from Instagram. Harlow claimed Friday that Williams wasn’t at the club, tweeting, “That was an old pic of me and Lou. I was just reminiscing cuz I miss him.”
Sources tell Shelburne that NBA security interviewed Williams, who admitted briefly being at the Magic City gentleman’s club on Thursday (Twitter link).
Williams received permission to leave Walt Disney World this week, making him the third Clipper in the past few days to exit the campus environment to attend to personal matters. Coach Doc Rivers confirmed that Williams returned today, according to Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN (Twitter link).
Williams will be required to quarantine for four days if he maintained negative test results over each of the past seven days. However, a longer quarantine could be imposed, depending on the results of the league investigation. The Clippers will begin their seeding games Thursday against the Lakers.
“I can’t share much with his journey (since leaving Orlando), I wasn’t on that journey with him,” Rivers told reporters (Twitter link). “But he’s back here, I can tell you that much. Those (pictures) got out and that’s something that we obviously didn’t enjoy seeing or like.”
If Williams’ quarantine is extended to 10 days, he will miss two seeding games and would forfeit up to $150K in salary, notes Bobby Marks of ESPN (Twitter link).
Sorry but the nba should make him quarantine for at least 10 days. I don’t think my job would take too kindly to leaving for an excused absence to go to a strip club during a pandemic.
Those ho’s clean. Why quarantine
Your job doesn’t prevent you from getting laid though. I can’t say I blame these guys. Sex is important man
his job doesn’t prevent him from getting laid, it enhances it. there’s a temporary inconvenience because of the bubble. if having sex was so important to him shoulda stayed home with all the LA work at his disposal while all the fellas are away in Orlando.
If he were a machine then yes that would be what Robot Lou would do. But we are humans. All of us have flaws and temptations. That’s why millions of unplanned babies are born every year.
pretty sure religion and lack of access to birth control and/or prophylactics are bigger contributors that flaws and temptations of humans.
quite a leap you made there, btw. from having sex to procreation.
A lack of access? This is sarcasm right?
What’s wrong with a little Rodman trip during the season?
I think most people would forgo visiting strip clubs for a few weeks (or likely months playing for the Clippers) if they made $8M/year.
You quarantine the sick, not the healthy. The most illogical reaction in the last 50 years continues on….
yep…quarentine him…Might wanna get a std test too.
If I was a clips fan I would be pissed but the fact that the guy with 2 girlfriends that know about each other and all the side chicks he probably has is leaving the bubble because he hasn’t gotten any in like a week is hilarious.
One guest should be enough. I mean, LW always claims he wants that title. Does not give a good name to career #6s!
They need to have a night club or stable of “paid professionals”in the bubble.
I suspect there is a conversation in Adam Silver’s office going on right now.
If you don’t think they already do….you don’t understand professional sports entertainment.
Last time I checked, prostitution was still technically against the law in this country.
Not to mention, the #MeToo movement would NEVER shut up if the NBA had harems for the team, regardless of whether the women involved wanted to be involved.
There must have been an emergency at the strip club. Harden, Williams, Kawhi and Rivers had a very important issue to tend to.
The NBA should have seen this coming. Get some entertainment quarantined and tested and let them set up in the bubble.
What an idiot. He should have to face a minimum 10-day quarantine. Who goes to a strip club for food, as he is claiming what happened? Lol.
best food in Atlanta, my man was there to eat chicken.
They are actually know by many to have AMZAZING food.
Many strip clubs have great food in the South..its part of the whole draw so if you havent been there its probably difficult to understand
that didn’t take long. Clippers can’t escape being the Clippers. once a laughing stock always a laughing stock organization.
Just when you think he’s a serious professional…Lou goes and does this
What a tool! He deserves been kicked out of the bubble for good & the team! Putting the restart in danger all for some filthy unwholesome entertaining! Absolutely despicable excuse of a man!
@El Don
some filthy unwholesome entertaining lol
Sounds like Esther Anderson from Sanford and Son
Odd they arent giving the whole story
Magic City is known for its food in ATl..in fact theres an interview with Lou in Feb where he talks about this
Also there was said to be No girls working that night
So are we blasting this guy because he went to his fav restaurant when he went back home??
As poeple back South know, there is actually amazing food at these joints
Lakers fan btw
The fact that it was a strip club may not be the reason he is being punished, that’s just the media sensationalizing things. Going out to any type of club would probably have resulting in the same thing.
Most def
I just found a lot of key parts of this story missing-
Guys gonna get heat, probably well deserved, but really this is more a non-story than story
Just had to have some of those Louwill Lemon Pepper BBQ wings!!!