“Hey, Draymond Green! Shoot it, you bighead”: When Warriors forward couldn’t put away a 5’2 Kevin Hart in a 3-point contest

Akash Murty | 10/06/2022
“Hey, Draymond Green! Shoot it, you bighead”: When Warriors forward couldn't put away a 5’2 Kevin Hart in 3-point contest

Kevin Hart is a celebrity All-Star games legend who has won the most MVPs and has had tremendous 3-point shooting challenges against Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler.

Hollywood celebs may look like the people who are good for nothing apart from their profession, but many celebrities can play basketball and are great at it.

Although not close to the level of NBA players, they can ball. Also, not anyway near the rapper J. Cole who is set to play professional basketball in Canada’s top-tier league.

But still, NBA gets good enough celebs from Hollywood and professionals from other sports who make the celebrity All-Star event worth watching. From Terrell Owens in 2008 and 09 to Alex Toussaint in 2022, the event has had 17 seasons.

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But guess which profession has the highest number of MVPs. Comedian. All of 5-feet, 2 inches tall, Kevin Hart, aside from winning hearts, has won every MVP award between 2012 and 2015.

He is literally good at playing basketball as good as he is with the mic on stage. The man has even played, or you can say, challenged NBA stars like Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green for a 3-point contest and almost beat one of them.

 

When Kevin Hart almost beat Draymond Green in a three-point shooting contest

Just after spectacularly announcing his retirement from the All-Star Celebrity game while receiving his fourth award in 2015, the Jumanji actor returned the following year to participate in the 3-point contest.

The intelligent man challenged Draymond, who wasn’t an excellent 3-point shooter, to say the least, but was good enough to drill some crucial shots from distance for the best franchise at the time – the defending NBA Champs, the Golden State Warriors.

It was also the year when a career-31 percenter Green was shooting his career-best 38.8% from the perimeter. Hart didn’t choose the best year for his challenge but still gave the All-Star a tough fight and didn’t allow the NBA champ to outshoot him.

Since then, the 4x All-Star has gone under 30 per cent from the 3-point territory. It looks like someone went into Draymond’s head there, which is generally the other way around.

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About the author

Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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