When the NBA season is going on as it is, players have lots of idle time, particularly while travelling, with nobody to spend it with other than each other. Sometimes that leads to video games but one of the NBA’s most tried and true pastimes is playing cards. Specifically, the game Booray. And LeBron James’ exploits in the game became the stuff of legend, at least according to his old Miami Heat teammate Dwyane Wade.
Wade participated in an AMA with Bleacher Report late last week, where one of the commenters asked Wade for his best airplane gambling story. What followed was an epic tale of how Mario Chalmers lost $50,000 to LeBron James when they were all on the Heat.
@srichmondBR: Best team plane gambling story?
We did A LOT of gambling … I don’t know what people think are good gambling stories about losing money hahah. The most memorable was Mario Chalmers. We played this game called Booray. You can put a ghost in the game and the ghost fades the pot. And Mario Chalmers was winning. LeBron was the ghost and the last hand he flipped over beat Mario Chalmers and I think he was out like 50K or something like that. The moment of it was so dramatic and we ran up and down the plane screaming and yelling because there’s no way you’re gonna lose to the ghost being up as big as he was when the game started. That was crazy
Chalmers was always the little brother of the Heat squads with LeBron, so him losing a big lead to one of the Heat’s stars fits the bill pretty accurately.
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