The Atlanta Hawks taunted each other mercilessly. “Jeopardy,” after all, can get intense.
Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce hosted a players-only “Jeopardy” game this month to reinforce offensive and defensive schemes. Four teams, four players each. The 43-year-old coach DJ’ed, dropping tunes straight from Motown — to the dismay of his young team.
The dismay, maybe, of everyone but Jabari Parker.
It was there, in the midst of the trench warfare that is “Jeopardy,” where Parker and Pierce discovered their mutual love for Frankie Beverly, the now 72-year-old founder of the soul group Maze.
”I have a brother [Pierce’s] age and my brother played his music around me,” Parker said Thursday.