To Prank or Not To Prank, That Is the Question
Here�s what they had to say:
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�Some fan or somebody sent me a bunch of water guns so Lauren Jackson and I filled them up and we got our coaches pretty bad, so that was a good one. Other than that, I�d say we didn�t really have that many pranksters.�
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�Lady Grooms is a jokester. She�s so funny. She�s always up to something. If she�s not up to something, I�m like, �Lady, are you sick? Are you sure you�re o.k.?� She brings energy to the team. But I like April Fool�s, too. I love doing stuff. I like seeing people�s reactions, surprising people in a good way. Because I like laughs, laughter to me brings something out of you. It takes more muscles to frown and be upset than it does to smile, so I like make people smile.�
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�I�m always messing around, trying to get somebody. My favorite thing last year, and it wasn�t April Fool�s, but I bought these little stupid glasses with the big eyes, and Coach Harvey was looking for me and she was, �Where�s Goodie at? Where�s she at? She knows she�s supposed to be out here� and blah, blah, blah, and I�m like �Oh, I�m sorry, I�m just going to run into the bathroom.� And I�m running out there and I put my head up with those glasses on, and they�re like �Oh my God!� I do stupid stuff. You�ve got to just laugh every now and then because it�s funny. It�s hard, life is tough, but it�s funny. You�ve got to laugh at it every now and again.�
Who is the biggest prankster on your team?
�Probably me, acting stupid. Because I do stupid stuff and people look at me like, �Are you alright?� But hey, you know you want to laugh. We don�t have too many jokesters on our team, it would probably be more coming from the coaching staff. Coach Harvey is funny. She�s really funny with that southern, Tennessee drawl.�
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�Two of my all-time favorite pranks would be: One, I have this girlfriend who�s a radio fanatic, always trying to win, win, win, so I called and told her � well, I don�t want to get the person in trouble, but I have a connection at the radio station, so I had them call her and tell her that she had won and had to come down to the station and get her tickets right away. And she went down there and there weren�t any tickets, but I was down there. And the other one was I have a friend who�s really into internet dating, who really likes blind dates, so I had it hooked up where she was going to go this restaurant to meet a person and they were going to have this great dinner, and so she was so excited that she called me and said, �you are never going to believe what happened, dit, dit dit. Girl, he is fine, he sent me a picture�� We did all that, we sent a picture and emails, and anyways, she went to this really, really nice restaurant and she was sitting there waiting and he said he was going to be wearing this and nobody came in wearing that. But we ended up having dinner and I ended up paying for it, she got over it but she was kind of pissed at me for a minute there. I know not to go too far, it�s all done in fun.�
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�I�m not too much of a prankster. When I was younger, my dad always used to do the little things, like right in the morning he�d be �Look up there, there�s a spider over there!� or something. He was big in little things like that, and I always got fooled every time. I�m pretty gullible.�
Who is the biggest prankster on your team?
�Chamique Holdsclaw. She just kind of livens up the room. She�s always kidding around and stuff.�
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�I usually try to play the jokes on somebody, but it doesn�t last long. Even if I tell somebody a lie, if it�s a big one, after about 10 minutes, I�m like, �O.k., it�s not true.� I think I remember about three years ago I told somebody that they had gotten traded. And I think they realized that it was April Fool�s Day and it wasn�t true or whatever, but nothing major. I�m not that jokey-jokey person about April Fool�s day.�
Who is the biggest prankster on your team?
�Lady Grooms. She�s just a little kid in a big woman�s body. She�s just funny, hilarious. And it�s great. You can never be in a bad mood around Lady because she�ll definitely make you laugh and tell a joke � just the way she talks is just funny. But I really respect her personality and it�s hard to see her not have a good day, so I just respect that in her because she really, truly enjoys the person that she is and always tries to have fun every day.�
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�I�m still playing pranks, that�s just my characteristic. One time I had some really good friends and I told them that I was getting traded and they were so upset. This happened like two years ago, and I just said, �You know guys I found out I�m getting traded so I�m not going to be here.� And they were really, really upset. That was a prank I pulled, and they were crying and stuff. I actually got my mom involved, it was a really good prank. It was about a good two-hour, three-hour prank before I had to break the news because it was getting really bad.�
Who is the biggest prankster on your team?
�I think Shannon Johnson. She�s the comedian, the prankster, the center of attention always on our team. She�s always just clowning around � dance routines, always jokes, always real animated, whether it�s playing jokes, excitement, whatever it is, she�s the leader, so I think that�s just Shannon�s personality, she�s loud and obnoxious at times, so I give it to Pee Wee.�
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�I�m not usually the type who plays the pranks � I�m the one who�s always falling for them. Everybody�s always getting me on April Fool�s.�
Who is the biggest prankster you�ve played with?
�Tamicha Jackson. Whenever you�re in a room with her, you�re going to be rolling on the floor laughing. She�s just really funny. I�d say she�s the funniest. And I just met Lady Grooms. I hadn�t really had the chance to spend a lot time with Lady, and she�s hilarious, she just had me laughing the whole day, she�s just so funny.�
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�I am so not the prankster, and I always get the jokes played on me. So April Fool�s Day is not one of my favorite holidays.�
Who is the biggest prankster you�ve played with?
�By far, leading in all categories of just jokes and pranks is Cynthia Cooper. Because she�s so convincing and she kind of has that personality and she�s like that all the time. She�s always upbeat, kind of going or whatever, so she�ll totally pull one over on you and you�ll not know it. We�re not necessarily with each other unless we�re doing an appearance or something like that, but just as far as pranks and jokes, I know that she probably gets a lot of people very good on April Fool�s Day. She�s always the jokester on our team, whether it�s taking the sneaker or just kind of like doing something funny all the time.�
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�I�m always playing pranks. I wake up and think of ones, especially on my mom or something. I�m always just coming up with some silly stuff or I might even tell my mom, �Mom, I�m so sick, I can�t get on the flight� and I might be at the door. I might be at the door and then all of a sudden I hit the doorbell and she opens it up and I�m like �April Fool�s. I�m right here.� I�m always April fooling my mom, always. Or I�ll say I�m not coming home until February 30 or something and she�s like �Oh, really?� because no one�s thinking, February 30th, like no, Mom, April Fool�s. February 30? No mom, c�mon. I�m always doing something with my mom.�
Who is the biggest prankster on your team?
�It�s Crystal Robinson. By far, it�s Crystal Robinson. You have to always be on your P�s and Q�s with her, always keep your eye open. You never know what she�s about to do. She�s probably one of the funniest people on the team. I�m just thinking about her and I�m about to start laughing because she�s always doing something silly, always.�
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