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Players React To The Devin Thomas Video Debut

So Devin Thomas‘s appearance in the latest Fantasia video made its internet debut this week, and whenever a player does something like this, the inevitable follow-up question is “Do you think your teammates are going to give you a hard time about it?” When word of Thomas’s R&B star turn broke a couple of weeks back, Dan Steinberg bowed to inevitability and asked, and, according to his report, Thomas believed that his teammates were “waiting to make fun of him next week, regardless of how his performance looks.”

It turns out that Thomas was absolutely correct about that. Read more »

Devin Thomas In Fantasia's Bittersweet Video

Oh, sure, Donovan McNabb and Fred Davis were in a video welcoming Wizards draft pick John Wall to D.C. But were they cast as the nameless love interest in a stylish R&B music video for the latest single by a former American Idol?

No they weren’t. And Devin Thomas was. Fantasia’s “Bittersweet” video debuted this week, and there’s Thomas. Here, look.

Thomas explained this side project to the DC Sports Bog earlier this month.

“She just needed a young sexy man in her video, and my name came up,” joked Thomas, who said he plays Fantasia’s fiance in the video. “This is my first time ever being in a video. It was a great opportunity, just to get a chance to be with somebody of her stature, to be a main role in her video.”

Mission accomplished — and I think Thomas actually acquits himself pretty well, all things considered. Read more »