Dan Steinberg of the D.C. Sports Bog tells a Caron Butler story that you really have to read. I insist you not just read this snippet, but actually go read the whole thing.

But, for the record, without any involvement from PR people, and without any TV crews trailing behind, Caron Butler was invited to the birthday party of a teenager he barely knew. Butler did not RSVP. Stenberg tells what happened next:

"And then I see a black Range Rover coming up my driveway," Marie told me. "I looked out and I said 'Oh my God, Caron Butler is here."

She went into the basement and told Anthony's friends who had arrived. They thought it was some sort of code word or nickname for Anthony.

"I said 'No no, Caron Butler, from the Wizards, the real one'," Marie told me.

So Caron came inside, and asked what she needed him to do.

"I said 'It's a surprise party, everyone's in the basement'," Marie recalled, and so Caron Butler went down into the basement to watch the NBA playoffs with a bunch of high school sophomores who were waiting to surprise their buddy. About 10 minutes later, Anthony arrived home, with his dad.

"We just went downstairs, opened the door to the basement, and Caron Butler's just over there chilling with my friends," Anthony told me. "I couldn't say anything. I was just shocked."