Rick Carlisle had one of the surprises of his life a few days ago while walking to a restaurant in Toronto.
To the Dallas Mavericks coach’s amazement, Carlisle ran into one of his players – rookie free agent forward Jarrod Uthoff. And Uthoff’s selection of food that night took Carlisle by surprise.
“I like that he’s very creative on the road with his food situation,” Carlisle said of Uthoff. “I saw him in Toronto at a convenience store and he was buying a loaf of bread and some deli meat and he was getting ready to make sandwiches for the next three days and I said, ‘Hey, you’re on an NBA per diem now, you can splurge a little bit.