People around basketball will always tell you not to celebrate too early. This is for obvious reasons: first, sportsmanship still matters, and second, as the great Yogi Berra said, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
That was really true of former Chicago Bulls great Toni Kukou010d.
6-11 Kukou010d was amazingly versatile and also, pretty clearly, had a clutch gene that turned up early in his career.
In his rookie season, Chicago was playing Indiana and, Reggie Miller being Reggie Miller, he hit a clutch shot with 0.8 left to give the Pacers the lead.
Then, being Reggie Miller, he bowed to the United Center crowd
Should’ve waited.