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For Jason Terry, everything changed in 1997. It was the night before the NCAA national championship game and Terry’s Arizona Wildcats were set to take on the University of Kentucky. Terry shared hotels rooms with teammate Mike Bibby on road trips and the pair understandably had trouble sleeping before the biggest game of their lives so far.
“Mike Bibby and I were anxious for the game,” Terry says. “So, we both put our full uniforms on – socks, everything. And we slept in them. The next day, we ended up winning the national championship. After that, I was like, ‘OK, I think I’m superstitious and I need to keep this thing going.’”
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When it comes to basketball and superstitions, there may be no clearer expert than Terry. He has won at every level of the game: as well as his college title he became an NBA champion with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. He’s also seemingly embraced quirk after quirk, both on and off the court.
In college, he started to wear long, high socks with “CATS” – a reference to the team’s nickname – written down the side of each leg. In the NBA, he continued the fashion statements, donning a headband every game to honor his former mentor and fellow Seattleite Slick Watts. But most striking of all, every night before an NBA game Terry put on the shorts of the opposing squad and wore them to sleep.
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“For instance,” Terry says, “if we’re playing the Miami Heat, I’d wear the Heat shorts the night before each game.”
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But how would he even get the shorts? Well, he’d go right to the source.
“I would hustle equipment managers and see if they had an extra pair,” says Terry, who was NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2009. “I think the most famous shorts I was able to get was a pair of Utah Jazz shorts that belonged to John Stockton.”
And how did he know they belonged to the NBA’s all-time steals and assists leader?
“Number one: they were short,” Terry says. “Number two: they had his No 12 on the inside tag.”
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