At the end of the first quarter in today’s game between the Knicks and Nets, either Nate Robinson was feeling particularly whimsical, or he was really, really confused. And more to the point, if you heard “an NBA player shot on his own basket today,” wouldn’t you just assume it was someone on the Knicks? Just seems too perfect.
Nate Robinson, The Wrong Basket, And The 2009 New York Knicks
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Watch, at the 20-second mark, as an NBA player shoots a three on his own basket:
↵The shot didn’t count, and Nate Robinson was just messing around, but as Kryptonate relayed afterward, Mike D’Antoni was not pleased:
↵↵“He was like, ‘What if it went in?’ ” Robinson said. “I was like, ‘My bad.’ I waited [until] the buzzer went off. He talked to me about it…”
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