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Bill Simmons writes a sports column and multiple web pieces per week for ESPN.com. He is known as the “Sports Guy” and is possibly the most obsessive NBA fan out there.
Simmons attended the playoff game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets last night in Los Angeles, and among the star-studded crowd was Val Kilmer. Add Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise and some Kenny Loggins music and what do you get? Apparently comedy.
From Simmons’ latest mailbag feature:
Anyway, there was a really funny moment Thursday night that could have only happened at a Lakers game. Near the end of a third-quarter timeout, they showed Val Kilmer and three of his chins on the Jumbotron, punctuating the moment by playing “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins. You know, a “Top Gun” homage. He took a second or two to get the joke, then unleashed one of those “Very funny, you got me, just know that I’m on a lot of meds right now” smiles. And this would have been enjoyable on its own, but they cut to someone else in the stands …That’s right…
Tom Cruise!
He caught on a little quicker and did the Tom Cruise Over-Laugh. And this would have been great on its own, but the Lakers pushed it to another level: They went split-screen with Kilmer and Cruise with “Danger Zone” still blasting. As far as I was concerned, this was the most emotional reunion in Lakers history. Cruise kept laughing; Kilmer looked mildly perturbed. (After all, he’s an actor, dammit! That was 23 years ago! He’s made a lot of movies since then!) At this point, I was praying they’d cut to Anthony Edwards in Section 312 but he wasn’t there. Still, I couldn’t have enjoyed the sequence any more and it dwarfed the remainder of the game for me.
Can you top seeing Mav and Ice reunited on a Jumbotron? I don’t know.
New Mexicans still aren’t sure if Val Kilmer is planning on a runnning for governor in 2010 or not. But if he does, he probably will start seeing some Lobos and Aggies games instead of Lakers games.
The good news? No Jumbotrons at The Pit or the Pan Am Center.
