Blazers find snake in locker room

ByTIM MACMAHON
May 8, 2014, 9:20 PM

— -- SAN ANTONIO -- The Portland Trail Blazers found a surprise when they arrived in the visitors locker room at the AT&T Center before Thursday night's 114-97 loss in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals against the San Antonio Spurs.

Reserve forward Thomas Robinson discovered a snake in his locker a couple of hours before tip-off, spotting it when he placed his shoes in the cubby.

"I was scared," said Robinson, who added that he'd only seen snakes on Discovery Channel before. "I ain't gonna lie, I was scared."

Robinson reacted by screaming and leaping "about five feet high and 20 feet back."

Robinson wasn't the only player to admit he was spooked. Added Mo Williams on Twitter:

We get in the lockerroom n its a damn snake, yea a snake in the lockerroom. Man we was scared as hell http://t.co/zST2ivnxhJ

- Mo Williams (@mowilliams) May 8, 2014

Reserve guard Will Barton, Robinson's neighbor in the locker room, claims he kept calm while hopping up on his chair. There was all kinds of commotion until "our brave trainers," as Robinson referred to them, corralled the beast. 

The Blazers thought that it was a rattlesnake, but a Spurs official said the snake was determined to be non-poisonous before being safely released back into the wild.

We get in the lockerroom n its a damn snake, yea a snake in the lockerroom. Man we was scared as hell http://t.co/zST2ivnxhJ

- Mo Williams (@mowilliams) May 8, 2014

Reserve guard Will Barton, Robinson's neighbor in the locker room, claims he kept calm while hopping up on his chair. There was all kinds of commotion until \"our brave trainers,\" as Robinson referred to them, corralled the beast. 

The Blazers thought that it was a rattlesnake, but a Spurs official said the snake was determined to be non-poisonous before being safely released back into the wild.

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