My favorite story about Carlos Boozer is that he has a brother named “Charlie”. This may or may not be true. If it’s the latter don’t tell me.
What I do know is true is that Boozer’s nickname in Chinese, “Fan Gu Zai”, translates literally to mean: “Betrayal Skull Dude.” Yessssss.
The betrayal skull reference comes from the Chinese story of Zhuge Liang, one of China’s most well-known intellectuals and military strategists. According to legend, before Zhuge died, he said, “Wei will betray the country sooner or later.” Wei was a general under Zhuge’s supervision.”
How do you know?” someone asked.
“He has a protuberant bone on his head,” Zhuge answered.
This news comes to us from the Cleveland Plain Dealer via Ziller and is, if you think about it, fairly accurate. Boozer did, after all, totally screw over the city of Cleveland and blind-man-in-the-dark (just for you Big Tom) Gordon Gund when he rolled to Utah. As for the the large bone beefing up his domepiece? Well, I can’t speak to having noticed that, but I’ll play along.
