"Oh, shit!"
"Coach, couldn't we stay at a different hotel?"
"Damn it, I'm going to buy a tent and pitch it on the street tonight. Or I could just make do at a nightclub for the night."
When they heard the name of the hotel their coach had picked, the players cursed, complained, or started plotting ways to get out of it.
The Skevin Hotel was a four-diamond hotel, and it was also a famous haunted hotel in Oklahoma.
The story went that the hotel's owner, Skevin, had cheated on his wife with a waitress, and she had gotten pregnant.
Afraid the affair would be exposed, he locked the waitress away on the top floor.
After being locked up for so long, the waitress developed a mental illness. In the end, she jumped to her death with her newborn baby in her arms.
After that, all kinds of paranormal events began happening at the hotel.
Many NBA players had also personally admitted to experiencing paranormal phenomena while staying there.
For example, Rose once said that when he stayed at the hotel, he always felt like there was someone else in his room.
It scared him so much that he had to share a room with one of his teammates.
Irving, the self-proclaimed mystic, had also complained to reporters that the bedbugs in the hotel kept him awake all night.
Metta World Peace, the league's former bad boy, had even claimed he was going to sue the hotel's ghosts, because they had touched him inappropriately.
Other players said that the bathroom door would keep opening by itself while they showered.
The most famous incident took place during the 2012 Finals between the Thunder and the Heat.
At the time, the Heat's Big Three had led the team to Oklahoma to face