14 DAY TRIAL // An alarm clock bug that apparently still isn’t fixed in Apple’s iOS operating system has reportedly caused Pau Gasol, and another two Lakers, to miss practice last week.
ESPN reports that the glitch made not one, but three Lakers late to their pre-game shoot-around.
Pau Gasol was one of them but, according to ESPN citing unnamed sources, he didn’t show up for the shoot-around at all.
"My alarm didn't go off so I woke up past the time," Gasol said. "I still went to shootaround, just a little later than I should have been."
Luke Walton was one of the other two Lakers who arrived late. The third player was not identified. All sources could confirm was that this player was not Kobe Bryant.
As a consequence of messing up his schedule, Gasol was “sleep-walking” through most of the game with the Memphis Grizzlies at the Staples Center on Sunday.
The Lakers lost at an embarrassing score of 104-85.
Interviewed, Gasol said Lakers head coach Phil Jackson did not mention the tardiness in the locker room Sunday, following the end of the game
The coach did note, though, that the shoot-around absences may have been the culprit.
"I always think that it affects the team's performance when everybody is not in their places ready to go when it's 10 o'clock in the morning and we're supposed to be ready to go through a film session," Jackson said.
"Then everybody is behind a little bit and everybody is wondering what happened to somebody else and then the messages conveyed aren't there in the same way. So, it affects [the team], but you have to be grown up enough to know that you can't let that affect your own game."
According to ESPN, Gasol had 10 points, eight rebounds and five turnovers with no assists in 32 minutes of action.
The iOS alarm clock bug has apparently cost someone their job as well.