Al Thornton discusses getting hit by a car, Wizards practice in the dark

Al Thornton had a brief encounter with the woman who hit him with a car on Thursday evening. He hopped on the hood, wrapped his arms around a side to hold on, then looked at her through the windshield. Thornton had an understandable reaction when the woman told him that she didn't see the 6-foot-8, 225 pound forward. "I was looking directly in the window," Thornton said. "I was like 'You didn't see me? What are you doing? A tall black guy walking and you didn't see me?' " Thornton said he was walking from practice at George Mason's Patriot Center, wearing his shorts and sandles, and heading up a hill toward the team hotel on campus when he saw the car approaching. It was raining, but Thornton said he assumed that she had seen him. "But she didn't," he said. "She was in a rush. I think she was Al Thornton - United States - Washington Wizards - Gilbert Arenas - History