Facundo Campazzo: Trash Talk, Idol Encounters, and Locker Room Confrontations

Facundo Campazzo told the rival that he went to look for him in the locker room

Despite being a shorter step than expected, Facundo Campazzo managed to leave a mark during his time in the NBA, where he defended the jerseys of the Denver Nuggets and the Dallas Mavericks. During a relaxed chat in Everyone Talks About NBA, a series of interviews with Germán Beder on the NBA Latam Instagram account, the point guard reviewed his time in the American league.

One of the most viral topics was being asked about trash talk during matches with the main stars of the competition. “Not so much with Curry, with Lillard. In fact Lillar asks me ‘where are you from?’ He follows me on Instagram, I think he follows me on Instagram. Let’s see if he stopped following me,” his story began, leaving the door open to an unexpected outcome.

“When I was at Real Madrid or Peñarol I had Derrick Rose as an idol. When I first saw it I said ‘wow’. It shocked me, because I really watched all of his videos. And well, we started playing and I started to defend him hard and half that he scored against me the three times I tried to defend him and he started talking to me, he started to guard me. And I say ‘stop’. I tell him ‘you’re like my idol. I’m a big fan of yours.’ And he looks at me half bewildered, he didn’t expect it. Generally someone speaks badly to you, insults you and you respond. He tells me ‘ah, okay’. And the play continued and he didn’t say anything else to me,” he recalled.

However, his confrontation with forward Trevor Ariza did not end the same way. The matter could have even ended in a fight if it had not been for the interference of one of the Argentine’s teammates: “I was out of my mouth. And the only thing he understood was the insult. In the other play he tells me ‘no one calls me that’. I tell him ‘uh, he’s sorry’. ‘Sorry!’, I don’t know. Generally, in the middle of the game you say, you go off the deep end and ask for forgiveness; and it’s all there. But not this time. In fact, the game ended and I half thought he was coming to look for me in the locker room and everything… He went to look for me in the locker room. He went to look for me in the locker room, but Jeff Green defended me. He told him ‘that’s it, Facu left’. I was hiding there in the locker room, behind the towels. And then he didn’t greet me anymore in the games I played against him. When I finished nothing, zero.”

Facundo Campazzo stopped following Damian Lillard

When recalling some encounters with the main figures of the tournament, he told the anecdote that Lillard, the great star of the Portland Trail Blazers, was one of his most famous followers on social networks. However, when checking his cell phone, the man from Córdoba was greatly disappointed. “Let’s see if Damian Lillard follows us. It is not a minor piece of information that follows 2,576 people,” he outlined. And then he added: “It is a before and after in my career. I’m going to stop following him. Can I stop following him live? “Lillard, I unfollowed you.”

In another fragment of the interview, the Argentine national team point guard explained when he realized he was playing in the NBA. “It happened to me, say, that 7 or 8 months into the season, already in the playoffs,” said the runner-up in the world in China 2019. “Because since there were no people at the beginning I didn’t really feel that ‘well, this is NBA.’ . But when I started to see people and there started to be people there at the foot of the dance floor in the first rows and when there were the first rapper friends of the stars who treat you not very well…”, he elaborated.

Facundo Campazzo and when he realized he was in the NBA

“When we went to Atlanta there were a couple of rappers there who told Trae Young ‘attack that guy who can’t defend you.’ He attacked me and scored on me. And the only thing I thought was ‘well, don’t fall, the only thing you have to do is not fall.’ Take a shot at the last moment, hide it a little. And if they make a mistake, the next play they go and attack you in the same way. They leave you there alone on an island, without help. There were two or three consecutive plays that I said to myself ‘well, welcome to the NBA,’” ​​he confessed.

The “other welcome” he felt was when he took a shot near the opposing team’s substitutes. “You took the corner and the rival team was there and they told you everything. But when you put it in you looked, little boy,” he concluded.

2023-09-22 15:22:00
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