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Paul Pierce
Particulars Close to-Deadly 2000 Stabbing
… On ‘Stars On Mars’
8/28/2023 9:03 AM PT
Paul Pierce is opening up on essentially the most terrifying expertise of his life … revealing his near-fatal stabbing in 2000 formed him into the person he’s at this time.
The Celtics legend mirrored on his previous in an emotional dialog on Monday night time’s episode of Fox’s celeb competitors present, “Stars On Mars” … explaining the Boston nightclub incident — by which he was stabbed 11 instances — fully modified his viewpoint.
“I’ve confirmed endurance in my life as a result of I by no means gave up,” Pierce mentioned within the clip. “I saved going and going.”
The Fact added he was on the “lowest level in my life” when he received within the altercation … saying, “I used to be like 23 years previous, residing my dream, after which impulsively I am combating demise.”
However, as a substitute of letting the stabbing derail his journey, Pierce mentioned it made him wish to work even tougher.
“Not solely was it a low level, it was a excessive level for me, too. It modified my pondering, it modified my mindset, it modified how I lived.”
Pierce in contrast the stabbing to his expertise on the present … as he spent the primary few days struggling to realize any floor, however continued and made it to the very finish.
“It is kinda been my life, beginning on the backside and rising up.”
Pierce went on to play each sport of the 2000-01 season … ultimately bringing a championship to the Celtics in 2008.
Pierce has an opportunity to get an analogous outcome on the season finale, which airs at 8/7c.
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