When you make it to the NBA as a player, you’re grateful to be among an elite group. With only around 550 players making an NBA roster each year, competition is fierce, and every season, a new wave of talent looks to take someone’s spot. If you end up on the wrong end of a highlight play, all you can do is get up and nod your head.
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Former ’90s NBA legend Tim Hardaway Sr. recently joined The Draymond Green Show alongside Baron Davis for a conversation filled with great stories and humor.
During the interview, Draymond Green asked Hardaway if he remembered the time Baron Davis dunked on him off a pass from guard David Wesley—a brutal poster dunk where Davis hung on the rim afterward. At just six feet tall, Hardaway had little chance of stopping it, and his response to Green’s question was as real as it gets for a former NBA player.
“Yeah, everybody gets dunked on,” Hardaway said. “I went for it, I thought I could get it. You know, you in the game, baby. Adrenaline flowing, you know?”
Davis, laughing, showed respect to Hardaway. “My fault, O.G., I caught you slippin’,” he said.
“Nah, you didn’t catch me slipping,” Hardaway replied. “I thought I could get it. My leaps weren’t as high as yours.”
Green then admitted he has been on the wrong end of some nasty dunks himself. He recalled James Harden dunking on him and how his reaction was to push Harden down afterward. That led Hardaway to drop some wisdom that every hooper should remember.
“Everybody gon’ get dunked on. Everybody’s going to shoot an airball. Everybody gon’ shoot a brick. Everybody gon’ turn the ball over. And everybody gon’ get shook.”
It happens to the best.
