A couple of days ago, we showed you video of the Nets' Devin Harris playing a little too casually against what turned out to be a street ball legend in London, and getting schooled/embarrassed/hustled because of it. Turns out people were blowing up his cell phone after the clip made it around the internet, wanting to know why he allowed himself to get used like that. According to Harris, he was just trying to be accommodating, and received some bad information:A "Special Olympic" kid? That's a pretty cold set up. But why was it time to go after just a couple of possessions? Once he realized what was going on, Devin should have at least taken the kid to the rack once, right? Ah, there's probably nothing to be gained by doing that, I guess. Kudos to Devin for being such a good sport about the whole thing."When I first went out there, they told me one of the Special Olympic kids wanted to play me one-on-one," Harris said. "So I went down there, said OK, shot jump shots or whatever.
"So he hit the first shot, and I was like, 'OK, he has a little talent.' Then he just whipped out the other thing - I was kind of confused at the point with all these dribbling moves, and before I knew it he threw it through my legs and laid it up.
"At that point it was time to go. So they had fun with it, they got me pretty good. I didn't expect it to be that popular, but it is what it is."
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I don't understand why its such a big deal to everyone. I completely agree with what your saying.. there was nothing to gain. Also Devin Harris's game is mostly around defense and team play. He is an assist man and still has a somewhat crude scoring game. Put each player with 4 other players of the same skill and it would be a totally different story. If you want to play 1v1 choose someone like Kobe, Lebron, even Marbury. Harris's game is classic point guard making his teammates better.
Obviously Will never saw Devin play at UW. He's FAR from a classic point guard, and he scored at will in college. He's a scorer more than an assist man.