On Thursday, the Celtics Wire highlighted all the best of Boston Celtics All-Star point guard Kemba Walker’s best step-back jumpers of his pro career, spanning everything he’s done with the Celtics and much of his best daggers from his time with the Charlotte Hornets.
But the one we didn’t share — arguably, the most important of any of them — was a step-back that launched the most epic NCAA title run in the Tournament’s history — fresh off of a fairly absurd run to the Big East title.
In many ways, the future contours of Walker’s pro career were already present in that run, which caught the eye of Hornets owner Michael Jordan and set the UConn product’s career down the path it took today.
Present on that floor in the video Walker and Celtics team reporter Marc D’Amico break down is Pitt product and current teammate Brad Wanamaker.
The final boss of the ex-Husky’s NCAA run was none other than his current coach Brad Stevens’ Butler squad — back again for another shot at a title the season after another teammate (Gordon Hayward) swung at Duke and missed.
Watch the video embedded above to see Cardiac Kemba discuss the iconic moment that would one day reunite the fanbases of the University of Connecticut and the Boston Celtics again as he unleashed one of the daggers behind the late-clock killings from whence that nickname derives.
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