Oklahoma City Thunder big man Steven Adams has a book out right now, and based on the excerpts that have already been released, one could tell that it’s packed with tasty details and interesting info about the life Adams on and off the court.
Among those passages is an interesting and hilarious story by Adams about that one time when he finally got to make Toronto Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas stop talking junk, per James Herbert of CBS Sports.
Perhaps my new signing was a boost to my confidence because I decided to properly respond to trash talk for the first and last time. Jonas Valanciunas from the Raptors was ripping into me all game, totally aggro. When he asked for a fight for the hundredth time, I finally turned to him and said, ‘You don’t want to mess with me. You use a knife and fork to eat your food. I use my hands.’ He didn’t know how to respond to that because it was so dumb, but it got him to shut up for a while, so I guess it worked. I decided to retire from trash talking after that game and go out on a win.
That’s some kind of left field thinking that Steven Adams used to disarm Valanciunas. Most people surely would not be able to come up with a rebuttal to that type of rhetoric. Valanciunas probably felt he was talking to a Will Ferrell movie character back then that a cat suddenly got his Lithuanian tongue.
Titled Steven Adams: My Life, My Fight, Adams’ autobiography sounds like a must-read for basketball fans.
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