If you're anything like me, you bolt upright from a deep slumber two, maybe three times a week, brow laden with sweat, gasp and whisper, "What's going on with retired longtime NBA forward Clifford Robinson?" Well, luckily, our shared breathless wonderings need persist no more; thanks to the fine reporting community of the great city of Portland, Ore., we now know the answer to the question that has haunted our dreams:
Robinson, now 49, is now a "cannabis advocate" with plans to speak at a cannabis-related business conference next month, to open his own weed-growing operation in Oregon later this year, and to adapt his hardwood nickname of "Uncle Cliffy" (which, lest we forget, described his celebratory dance before it became synonymous with the man himself) to the more pot-friendly handle of — wait for it — "Uncle Spliffy.