Dillon Brooks is not afraid to be the bad guy. He's regularly assigned to defend the NBA's best scorers, and he's generated highlight reels of his ability to get under their skin. LeBron James has called him a player you can’t disrespect.
Brooks seems to relish the controversy, leaning into the agitator role that has made him one of the most discussed players in the NBA this season. When the Grizzlies beat theafter Green’s podcast insult, Brooks used a courtside interview with TNT to make sure the feud continued.
“I tried to take that out of him,” McIntyre says. “But I really think that part of surviving in the NBA is that you have to have some a–hole in you. … He’s going to survive in the NBA because he can be an a–hole and he’s a big enough a–hole to believe in himself more than everyone else.” The Grizzlies lost that series in six games and Brooks has been public enemy number one in the Bay Area ever since.On Christmas Day, a few months ago, it was abundantly clear to Diane Brooks what everyone around her thought of her son.As she sat amid the insults aimed at her eldest child, she was careful not to give away her relationship to the target of their scorn. The Memphis Grizzlies security advises family members to avoid engaging with opposing fans. Not that Diane would.
It used to be much more upsetting to hear people hurling insults at her son, but she’s grown used to it through his six years with the Grizzlies. In late February, Brooks arrived at a Grizzlies game wearing a back vest with no undershirt and ripped shorts, which many compared to the outfit wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin would wear. Brooks doesn’t work with a stylist, like some NBA stars do. He’s often drawn attention for his sartorial choices, like when he wore a flamboyant fur coat after a game in his hometown against the“It’s just weird stuff,” Diane says, laughing.
It was a fun, intense team, led by the Brooks’ pregame dances and on-court celebrations, says Tanveer Bhullar, a 7-foot senior on that team who became close with Brooks before going on to play at New Mexico State.
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