Many NBA players like to bring their own lunch box when they go to the road to play the game, the most common is Curry, his boarding photos are simply holding a lunch box in his hand, and more than one box, the most time with four boxes. In addition to Curry, Durant, Cousins, Paul Jordan and other stars also like to take a lunch box on the plane to play away games.

In fact, the players go to the away game is a lot of benefits, the teams have their own special aircraft transportation, and the team free of charge to provide players with the return transportation, accommodation and food and beverage costs, the majority of the situation players will stay in the specifications of high-grade hotels, the entire vehicle transfer accompanied by a person, and the hotel will also provide buffet for the players to eat free of charge. As a result, there is no away from the situation does not provide meals, that players like to bring their own boxed lunches and why?

One, to deal with the problem of eating on the plane

1960, the Lakers team on the road and the Hawks played a game after the return to the home field, the time to sit on the plane but suffered a blizzard, the plane's radar, fuel machine, compass, heating system all failed, the pilot can only choose to emergency cut down, but fortunately, they landed with a piece of corn, and corn above a lot of snow, and ultimately, there is no The pilot had no choice but to make an emergency cut to land in a cornfield.

If the luck is not good, the Lakers may be wiped out, after learning from this experience, some teams began to provide a special plane to transport players to away games, the special plane to be much smaller than the ordinary airliner, can accommodate a limited number of people, there are no stewardesses inside, there is no chef, as long as some of the readily available food to the players to provide energy.

Athletes are very able to eat, every day to eat several meals, the food on the plane and can not satisfy them, plus some players do not like the food on the plane, they will bring a few lunchboxes, which is loaded with my favorite food, when hungry, take out to eat.

Two, must eat nutritional meals

NBA every team will set up a nutritional team, so that the players eat well at the same time eat well, so that the players have a good body, adhere to a good state of competition. In addition, a large part of the ball players will hire their own nutritionist, nutritionist will be before their workout, after the workout, before the competition, after the competition for the players to prepare a nutritious meal, they will be based on the player's body needs to develop a diet program, so that the player's body is in good condition.

As mentioned above, the number of people that can be accommodated in a special plane is limited, so the nutritionists will not follow the players to the away games in a special plane, they will prepare the nutritional meals for the players before the trip, and advise the players on which foods to eat at which stage of the game. Some players each time before boarding the plane will bring several lunch boxes, which contains different nutritional meals, some are eaten on the plane, some are eaten after arriving at the destination, the nutritionist had set up for them, they will be able to eat when they heat up some.

Three, to avoid food poisoning

NBA has a lot of players food poisoning - 1997 finals before the start, Jordan ate a pizza, did not expect to eat after the start of stomach pain, the doctor checked only after the discovery of food poisoning, as for the pizza why the poison is not clear, was poisoned! The possibility is great, the other side is certainly do not want to let Jordan on the court, or do not want to let Jordan have a good competition state, but Jordan in the physical discomfort of the situation as usual cut 38 points, to assist the Bulls to beat the Jazz.

Time came to 2002, Kobe followed the Lakers to Saramanto to play away games, he ate a piece of hamburger with cheese, after he began to vomit and diarrhea, severe dehydration, although he insisted on playing the game, but the performance is not good, resulting in the Lakers lost the game by 6 points. According to the people on the spot recall, Kobe was in the locker room constantly curled up, very painful.

By 2014, there were also episodes of collective food poisoning. The Grizzlies' Tony Allen, Courtney Lee and Benno Udrih, three guards, Jon Rule and Garner Stokes, two forwards, center Koufos and power forward and guard shaker Quincy Pondexter, including seven players had collective food poisoning, and they missed pre-game workouts and played the game with a number of players absent, and the Grizzlies ultimately lost uncontested to the Celtics.

Besides these there are quite a few examples, so I won't list them one by one. These players poisoning things, some of them are due to mistakenly eat the moldy metamorphosis of food poisoning, some are inexplicably poisoned, very likely to be poisoned. It is these alarming cases so that more and more players focus on the issue of food safety, and therefore some players like to bring their own boxed lunches is not surprising, after all, my nutritionist will not harm myself, can eat more than one meal made by a nutritionist, less outside to eat a meal, less risk of food poisoning.

Four, save time

Players to go to the road to play the game is a relatively hard thing, if time is short they may just arrive in the morning, the evening and the local team to play the game. In order to be ready to play, they need more time to rest and energize their bodies.

Some players will bring their own boxed lunch on the plane, eat when they are hungry, after arriving at the destination will not have to eat in the restaurant, after arriving at the hotel will go directly to my room to rest, some players do not bring a boxed lunch on the plane, after arriving at the destination to go to dinner, dinner may meet fans, meet other players to talk about, so it will take a lot of time, the rest of the time is less, so bring your own boxed lunch can save time. box lunch can save time and can allow players to get more rest time.

The benefits of bringing your own boxed lunch are many, and it has gradually become a trend in the NBA, especially in the Warriors, where it seems that every player in the Warriors' performance will board the plane with a boxed lunch, which has become a team culture for the Warriors.