In the most surprising revelation, Darius admits that he and Quentin Richardson stole their famous Two Tap Salute:
Westchester had a really good team, so we used to go watch Trevor Ariza and Hassan Adams and Bobby Brown and those boys. I don’t know how it got started, but they’d throw up their fists after they made a three.
So we’d be hanging with them, and they’d be like, “Come on, when you gonna shout us out? You gotta do it. Show us some love.
Darius told another story about nearly killing himself on Alonzo Morning’s Jet-skis:
Now, imagine this …. two dudes from East Saint and the Wild Hunneds on a WaveRunner in the summer of 2000, going back to Zo’s crib to tell him we crashed his damn Jet Ski into his neighbor’s damn speed boat.
Plus, Darius explained how easy it can be for an 18-year-old millionaire signed to the Jordan Brand to go broke living that NBA lifestyle:
When you’re young, you think the money is gonna last forever. I don’t care how street smart you are, or who you got in your corner, when you go from not having anything to making millions of dollars at 18, 19 years old, you’re not going to be prepared for it.
If you read the headlines about me now, it’s all about me going bankrupt. People ask me, “Man, how can you lose all that money?”
That part is easy to explain. You already heard that story a million times, with a million players. The cliche is that guys go broke buying Ferraris or whatever. Listen, it takes a long time to go broke buying Ferraris. What makes you go broke are shady business deals.
They’ll make the money disappear quick.
Flip the pages to see a video of Darius discussing meeting his idol, Michael Jordan for the very first time; and highlights of some of Darius’s greatest dunks.