We know you know that Boston Celtics forward icon Paul Pierce is a champion with the team he called home for 15 seasons of his 19-year NBA career, but what you may not know about the Oakland, California native is that he also plays a mean hand of poker.
Pierce even competed in the World Series of Poker the summer he was traded from Boston to the Brooklyn Nets with teammates Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry.
Though his luck was more like the 2010 NBA Finals than in 2008, bowing out near the end despite doing quite well early in the competition, according to Bleacher Report’s Timothy Rapp.
We tracked down this clip of The Truth’s best five hands from his occasional appearances on the popular gambling show “Poker After Dark” so you can see how Pierce’s poker game matches up with his basketball acumen.
Watch the clip embedded above to see P-Double raise a few eyebrows with his skills in a very different sort of venue than we usually see him doing so.
