The Los Angeles Lakers signed guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to a deal shortly after the Detroit Pistons elected to pull their offer for him. LA swooped in and signed the player that will most likely start for the Lakers at shooting guard alongside Lonzo Ball. But is he the second coming? Well, if you ask Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka, Caldwell-Pope’s arrival is of biblical proportions.
Here’s what Pelinka said during Caldwell-Pope’s introductory press conference, thanks to Drew Garrison of SB Nation’s Silver Screen and Roll.
“I would venture to guess there’s people in the room that are familiar with the stories in the Book of Genesis, where there was a time when the Israelites were wandering in the desert and all of a sudden, bread came down from heaven,” Pelinka said while introducing Caldwell-Pope today. “That’s kind of what today feels like for us to have KCP join.”
Well, you see. That’s not quite right, Mr. Pelinka. Here’s the actual passage from the Bible.
And the Lord said to Moses, “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”
In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.”
At least he’s excited for his new guard, right?
