This story from Antoine Carr is actually part of a bigger story about how Karl Malone choked at free throw line in Game 1 of 1997 NBA Finals.
You know the famous line uttered by Scottie Pippen.
“The Mailman doesn’t deliver on Sundays.”
During the ESPN oral history of that game, Carr dropped this nugget on why he liked playing Chicago.
Carr: One thing I did enjoy about playing the Bulls that was different was the city of Chicago was always trying to do something too. You’d be in your hotel room the night before a Finals game in Chicago and all of a sudden a Playboy model would show up at your door with a cake. That happened to me more than once. … They show up in a trench coat, and when they get to present you with your cake the coat comes off and it’s “Welcome to Chicago!” But if you’re a young man and all you can think of the night before the Finals is a beautiful girl now, that’s going to throw you all the way off. It didn’t work on me. It was good cake, though.
Carr only averaged 9 minutes a game during that Finals series so he had a lot of time for cake, but he didn’t box out Michael Jordan on Malone’s second miss from Free Throw line which led to Jordan’s game winner.
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