It takes guts for a human being to take on Pierre the Pelican, a mascot who at one point and time was so horrifying that the New Orleans Pelicans sent him away to be revamped in an effort to make children happy. Robin Lopez clearly has guts, as we learned tonight when he took on Pierre in his never-ending quest to humiliate every mascot in the NBA.
It all started innocently enough when Pierre made a simple joke about listening to Lopez talk during Media Day with his new team the New York Knicks.
Of course, Robin, the serial mascot abuser that he is, was not going to take this slight quietly and he responded.