Former NBA Champion Says Life Changed After Being Posterized

An NBA player’s legacy is important. Making the league is a feat within itself, but if you have the talent to have a long NBA career, how you are remembered becomes an interesting debate. For some players, they are remembered by their successes. When you think about Tim Duncan, you think of NBA championships. However, some players are remembered for less honorable reasons. For example, when you think of Anthony Bennett, you think of a bust. 

Jason Terry is an NBA legend in his own right. During his impressive 19-year career, he was a 6th Man of the Year winner and was a key piece to the Dallas Mavericks' championship in 2011. However, despite all his successes, Terry recently spoke about the less-than-ideal thing that he is always remembered by. 

“I’ll forever go down in history like ‘you got dunked on by the king!’ Every camp, every clinic I go to in America I go and talk to kids. They don’t ask me ‘how did it feel to play 19 years and play with Dirk and win a chip?’ They say how does it feel for LeBron to dunk on you like that? What happened was I turned the ball over and got Chalmers coming at me, Bron coming down the middle, then I took my eye off LeBron for one second! I chased Chalmers and turned back around and he was already in the air. What made me jump is what I’m trynna figure out.”

Terry may have beaten LeBron in the 2011 NBA Finals, but LeBron got the best of him on that dunk. So, even though Terry gets to sit at home with millions of dollars and an NBA championship ring, he can still be humbled by the memory of LeBron posterizing him.