Boston Celtics rookie Payton Pritchard is learning early in his career that the internet is forever in some very adorable ways.
First, his old Twitter handle inadvertently became the nickname that stuck despite several robusts efforts to shift the narrative around the young Oregon product with references to the movie “Eight Mile”. Then, teammate Jaylen Brown dug up an old video of the first-year Celtic floor general doing the “running man challenge” in front of the refrigerator of presumably his parents’ house, given the West Linn, Oregon native was still in high school at the time.
Chuckles aside, the budding NBAer had himself a career night while still in the first weeks of his inaugural campaign, going for 23 points and 8 assists in a 126 – 114 road drubbing of the Toronto Raptors.
One day we’ll look back at this game as a big breakout for the 22-year-old guard — and we’ll probably have forgotten about that goofy video by then.
Thankfully the internet will remember for us., Fast PP.
