1. When O'Bryant showed up for the first practice no one knew who he was. When he introduced himself to Danny Ainge, Ainge thought it was a joke. He thought with a name like Patrick O'Bryant that he was signing a sharpshooting white kid.
2. After the big four (as O'Bryant likes to call them) combined for 48 points (Pierce-13, Garnett-14, Allen-19, Obie-2) in a win over Portland on Dec. 5th, Garnett gives O'Bryant the nickname of little known superhero: Brother Power the Geek (Superman was already taken by Pierce).
Brother Power was a mannequin that was hit by lightening and came to life with super strength and other limitless magical powers. Since he was a dummy you couldn't kill him or even really hurt him. Essentially Brother Power was more powerful than even Superman. I mean, in a fight between Superman and Brother Power, Brother Power could technically win considering that his powers were untapped and Superman can be harmed by magic. Anyways, Brother Power lived amongst the flower people and preached love and peace and fought against "the man" and "the establishment", which pretty much fits O'Bryant perfectly.3. January 14th: O'Bryant wakes up in the middle of the night with a tummy ache from having too many Obie smoothies (a mixture of chocolate pudding, gummie bears, twizzlers, and a $5 footlong meatball sub, blended and served cold). He's on the road and has Tony Allen as a roommate. Allen tells him to call a Doctor. O'Bryant calls Doc Rivers. After trying to explain that it is just a nickname and he is not really Doctor, Rivers tells O'Bryant to drink a bottle of Pepto Bismol and go to sleep.
4. December 9th: Gets yelled at about the locker room music when he decided to play a mixtape he made of himself singing Naughty by Nature's 'OPP' only instead he changed it to 'POB, You down with POB!' Sadly no one is down with POB.
5. O'Bryant refuses to show up to the fourth game of the season because he claims an alien keeps talking to him on the bench. He claims that no one else can see the alien because he doesn't actually play. He says the alien talks about his rocket all the time. It turns out to be Sam Cassell talking about winning two titles with the Houston Rockets.
6. On Christmas day in L.A. O'Bryant is starstruck by all the celebrities so before the game he gets all of the actors' autographs - Jack Nicholson, Will Smith, Mark Whalberg. He loses his cool when his boyhood idol, the man he modeled his game after, is wearing a Celtics uniform and is in the lay up line: the one and only Jesus Shuttlesworth. O'Bryant runs over to Mike Gorman and Tommy Heinsohn and tells them with Pierce, Garnett, Allen and Shuttlesworth the Celts will repeat. Mike has to hold back Tommy back from kicking a Tommy Point up into O'Bryants colon.
7. November 21st: O'Bryant records his first triple double against the T-Wolves. He played 10 min, had 10 turnovers and missed 10 shots. Asked after the game about the rare feat O'Bryant says, " Dang, it ain't nothing but a chicken wing".
8. After seeing Michael J. Fox in 'Teen Wolf' one night, O'Bryant goes to the butchers shop and straps 45lbs. of raw meat to his body and goes jogging naked through the woods at midnight during a full moon. He is later arrested and when he tells the officers that he plays for the Celtics and his name is Patrick O'Bryant the officer tells him that if he is going to lie about playing for the Celts that he shouldn't use the red head's name.
9. When his Celtic teammates questioned "how could he have been a top ten pick in the draft?" Obie tells them about his college days at Bradley University. When no one had heard of it they finally figure out that the tape he sent out to teams before the draft was from Sean Bradley's Camp For Unathletic Tall Guys
10. When informed yesterday that he had been traded to Toronto,O'Bryant breaks down into tears in the locker room. When Paul Pierce comes over to tell him that it is alright and he will play more up there O'Bryant said "That's the thing Paul, I won't play more for the Maple Leafs because I can't skate."
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