The NBA is an elite competition where all its participants are high-performance athletes. In this case, about 450. However, there are two that have a very special peculiarity in a sport that is played with the hands: they are missing a finger.
They are Gerald Green and Davis Bertans. The biggest curiosity about this rare piece of information is that they are both missing the same finger: the ring finger of the right hand. And in both cases it was due to accidents: one domestic and the other basketball, although it seems incredible.
The Latvian Bertans, today in the Wizards, lost that finger when he was 13 years old, when cutting wood with his grandfather, he cut his ring finger and it was mutilated. That did not deprive him of being an extraordinary three-point shooter. Perhaps the ring finger is the finger that has the least interference in the way a pitcher takes a ball to shoot.
The Green thing, in Denver now, although he did not play the bubble, injured, we said that he was basketball, because he practically ripped his finger off when he dunked in a hoop he had at home and caught with a nail that had the support of the basket case. Both players were left with the low part of the ring, but they lost the most used part, the upper part. And, needless to say, they both end up being examples that, with courage, many unforeseen obstacles can be overcome.
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