Athletes make excuses all the time. But one NBA player might have just made the greatest—and lamest—excuse of all time.
Trying to explaing his three-point percentage dipping from 41.4 percent through his 11-year NBA career to 36.5 percent last season, San Antonio Spurs reserve center Matt Bonner actually blamed an injury caused by his iPhone 6. Yes...really.
"You're about to get an exclusive here," Bonner told the Concord Monitor. "I hate to make excuses, I was raised to never make excuses, but I went through a two-and-a-half month stretch where I had really bad tennis elbow, and during that stretch it made it so painful for me to shoot I'd almost be cringing before I even caught the ball like, 'Oh, this is going to kill.'
"Everybody is going to find this hilarious, but here's my theory on how I got it," he continued. "When the new iPhone came out it was way bigger than the last one, and I think because I got that new phone it was a strain to use it, you have to stretch further to hit the buttons, and I honestly think that's how I ended up developing it."
Matt...you're definitely right about everyone finding this hilarious. We do find it hilarious. Bonner swears that the iPhone 6 somehow caused his three-point percentage to slide. Is the NBA going to have to invoke an after-iPhone-purchase shooting percentage stat?
Thanks for the laughs, Matt. We can see Spurs coach Gregg Popovich shaking his head about this.
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