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CJ McCollum’s Wine Lable Turned Kawhi Leonard Into A Whine Connoisseur

Most people found out that Portland Trail Blazers star CJ McCollum owns a wine lable, when he turned his NBA Bubble hotel room into a 60 degree cold wine cellar. 

It turns out that Kawhi Leonard is a huge fan of ‘McCollum Heritage 91’, and took use of McCollum having brought a ton of bottles with him to Orlando, that’s what the guard now recalled.

Per Robb Report:

“Hey, that wine you gave me was good,” McCollum recalls Leonard telling him. “A lot of people don’t know I drink wine, and I don’t know a lot about it, but I know that shit was good.”

“I’m just sitting there, and Kawhi is going into detail about my wine, telling me how he likes that it’s dry and fruit-forward,” McCollum says over Zoom, pausing to apologize to his dog Fiona for the whirring noise made by the electric wine opener uncorking a bottle. “This was happening all the time throughout the bubble. I shared it with people, and our GM shared it with other GMs, and then sometimes someone would randomly stop me and say thanks for the wine.”