In celebration of his birthday, we dug up one of Boston Celtics champion big man Glen Davis’ most iconic moments, when teammate Nate Robinson jumped on his back after the Louisiana State University product made an impressive hustle play in the 2010 NBA Finals.
The play came in Game 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers — which the Celtics would ultimately win in part due to the efforts of Davis in that crazy sequence — and has become a part of Boston sports lore since as the pair’s “Shrek and Donkey” moments, later meme-ified and sported by the man himself as a Twitter profile. That itself was sparked by a postgame presser where the duo discussed the celebratory moment where Davis was surprised to hear Robinson had even jumped on his back.
“You didn’t even notice,” said the Celtics guard via ESPN’s Chris Forsberg. We’re like Shrek and Donkey. You can’t separate us.”
Watch the video embedded above by Tomasz Kordylewski to see the sequence that birthed this silliness yourself.
