Miami Heat shooting guard Tyler Johnson is no stranger at losing teeth, so when he lost his false tooth defending his counterpart Kentavious Caldwell-Pope while playing against the Detroit Pistons, the young man was unfazed.
“I didn’t even feel it,” Johnson said of losing his false tooth in Detroit. “Obviously I felt that there was nothing there. But it didn’t hurt or nothing. I thought I swallowed my tooth, though, because I couldn’t find it.”
Johnson had that same tooth knocked out in college, making it a quite familiar feeling the second time around.
“He just went up. Maybe I shouldn’t have let him get to the hole, I would have still had my tooth,” Johnson said after the game. “I think it was Caldwell-Pope who got me. He just got me when he finished, his follow through just hit me in the mouth. It’s crazy, man. It’s crazy,” Johnson said. “I don’t know. I don’t think I was meant to have teeth.”
The $50 million man has yet to have replaced his lost tooth, sporting a gap in his lower incisors with no shame whatsoever.
“I’m just letting it rock right now,” he told ESPN's Pablo S. Torre with a wide, gap-toothed grin. “I got my girl. I’m engaged. I’m in no rush.”
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