Tyler Johnson has a knack for getting to the rim, playing tough defense and generally surprising people with his athleticism… and for loosing teeth. It was this past summer that ESPN ran a story in its magazine with a featured image of a grinning, toothless Johnson.
He’s lost teeth in college and in the pros, and he lost another one against the Detroit Pistons last week.
It happened when he was guarding Pistons guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and took an inadvertent blow to the mouth.
“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.