Here’s former New York Knicks sharpshooter Steve Novak on why he started doing the Aaron Rodgers discount double check celebration after made threes.
(via Hear District):
Novak: “I’m playing for the Knicks, our security guard keeps saying, ‘You’re a Packer fan?’ I said, ‘Damn right, I’m a Packer fan! I’ll roll with Don Majkowski. I’ll roll with Brett Favre. My guy Aaron Rodgers. I’m watching them every weekend. When I’m winning bets against guys, I’m making them wear their Packer t-shirts on the plane.’ He said, ‘You love Rodgers so much, why don’t you do the belt when you hit a three like when he throws a touchdown?’ And I said, ‘That’s ridiculous, I would never do something so absurd.’ Except one Sunday afternoon against the Dallas Mavericks. It’s a Sunday matinee, playing against the team that cut you last year. They cut me, they signed Peja Stojakovic. They went on to win the championship. I didn’t get a ring. I didn’t get a check. I didn’t get a damn thing and I felt real in my feelings about playing them the next time. So, I got hot. I started making threes on Jet (Jason Terry), over Jason Kidd, over everybody, and I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know what’s about to happen.’ And I did the belt on a Sunday afternoon in the Garden. I couldn’t stop after that. I said, ‘That’s it, I’m doing the belt.’”
Marques Johnson: “And the fans just went bonkers when you did it? There was an immediate reaction to that, that was palpable that you could feel?”
Novak: “It was. It was one of those things where I did it for me the first time, but every time after that, that was for the fans. I said, ‘All right, y’all want me to do the belt? I’ll keep doing the belt.’”
