Practice is a time for players to become more comfortable with their respective teammates. However, it’s not a time to be losing teeth like Austin Rivers did.
Rivers said he had five teeth on the bottom row of his mouth knocked out and put back in place surgically after catching an inadvertent elbow from Branden Dawson as the rookie went up for a dunk in a scrimmage.
Dawson is listed at 6-foot-7, 220 pounds, so you could imagine how painful that elbow must’ve been. Thankfully, Rivers was able to get his teeth put back into place.