Merritt Riley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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All I could tell you was I was real nervous.
I entered the locker room very, very timidly.
And I open the door to the locker room.
On the left-hand side is a swarm of reporters.
The one guy I don't want to see, and he's one of the only ones left.
So I try to make my way towards the back of the locker room.
I figured he wouldn't see me because there were so many reporters around him.
And I go walking through, and, you know, you couldn't have planned it any better.
The reporters move out of the way and all of a sudden he locks eyes with me.
And I'm thinking, holy ****, you gotta be kidding.
I thought I was dead.
Yeah, I figured my heart was broken already.
He's... So he's like, Spalding.
And I stopped dead in my tracks.
And I didn't expect that at all.
That he would be in the mood where he's calling me by my nickname, you know?
And I was like, yeah.
And he looks at me and says, why didn't you get the **** back?
And I'm like, holy Christ, what do I say?