Marcus Smart says his basketball career nearly came to an end two seasons ago — and he still has a few mementos, of sorts, as reminders of how fortunate he is that it didn’t.
In a podcast interview released Monday with ESPN’s Zach Lowe, the Celtics guard said he saved the shard of glass that doctors removed from his shooting hand, after he cut it punching a picture frame in a Los Angeles hotel room during a team road trip in January 2018. The piece of glass reportedly ended up between two tendons near his right pinky, which could have been debilitating if Smart wasn’t as lucky.