Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was the, er, butt of a lot of jokes and speculation on Monday night when he left his team’s eventual 47-42 win over the Cleveland Browns to go to the locker room.
He missed a lot of the fourth quarter due to cramps and was getting an IV to fix them. But many, many people thought that he had a different gastrointestinal issue that sent him to the locker room.
Jackson swore it wasn’t so. He told reporters, “I didn’t pull a Paul Pierce. I was cramping.”
Are you wondering what exactly that meant? Let’s take you back to 2008.
It was that year that Boston Celtics faced the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Celtics star Paul Pierce appeared to get injured in the third quarter and was holding his leg, seemingly in serious pain. Trainers brought a wheelchair out to take him to the locker room.
But he came out minutes later and seemed just fine.
So what actually happened? In 2019, Pierce revealed the reason on ESPN: he had the aforementioned gastrointestinal issue.
Paul Pierce has admitted he had to poop pic.twitter.com/3wWqZjJ1rE
— CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) June 6, 2019
In case you forgot or never heard that story, now you have. Gross.
