In Lou Williams’ defense, Magic City’s wings do look pretty fire

In Lou Williams’ defense, those Magic City wings look pretty tasty.

We can all agree that Lou Williams didn’t act entirely responsibly when he left the NBA bubble. Though there are obviously bigger things than basketball, like the viewing he attended for his friend Paul G. Williams in Atlanta, by going to the Magic City strip club, he was inadvertently putting the entire Orlando bubble at risk.

At first, the initial excuse — that he only went to this particular strip club for dinner, when there were no entertainers — seemed flimsy at best. Uh huh, sure you went to the strip club for “dinner,” people thought.

But the more we’ve learned about Lou Will and Magic City, the more that reasoning checks out.

For starters, the LA Clippers guard has stuck by his story, tweeting, “Ask any of my teammates what’s my favorite restaurant in Atlanta is. Ain’t nobody partying. Chill out lol #Maskon #inandout.” Then he mentioned that Magic City had the best wings in the city, retweeting accounts from his fellow NBA players, and when talking head/resident troll Kendrick Perkins started throwing jabs, Williams doubled down on his stance that he had simply wanted to “get hot wings during a pandemic.”

And now, as if that weren’t enough, we have visual confirmation that Magic City’s wings do, in fact, look pretty fire:

Does any of this change the fact that simply leaving Orlando, let alone going to get food from a strip club, put the entire bubble experiment at risk? Not really. But Lou Williams has accepted his 10-day quarantine punishment, and he wasn’t going there to party or watch strippers or anything like that. The food within the bubble has looked edible but ultimately unappetizing to this point, don’t forget.

And if we’re being totally honest, what carnivore among us hasn’t had a craving for his or her favorite hot wings during this pandemic? Lou Will is a man of the people, and as long as this incident doesn’t lead to some kind of COVID-19 outbreak in the NBA bubble, the only people this hurts is Lou Will himself (being unable to play) and the Clippers for a game or two.