Juancho Hernangómez: movie star. You read that right.
Now read it again. It’s fun.
Yes, indeed, the newest member of the Boston Celtics — an NBA role player with career averages of 5.7 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 0.7 assists per game — will star alongside Adam Sandler in the hooper-actor hybrid’s upcoming Netflix film, Hustle. Photos of the two on a blacktop have been surfacing all across the internet, cameras and crews aplenty surrounding them. Frankly, given Sandler’s summer activities and recent penchant for stumbling across some star-studded pickup games, I was quick to assume that this was either yet another excuse for Sandler and his baggy garb to get in a run, or that it was some weird publicity stunt.