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he difference between great ath-
letes and iconic ones is in being
able to create signature moments.
Sonny Bill Williams’s moment came
after the final of the 2015 Rugby World
Cup. Williams’s All Blacks had just won
and were slowly circling the field. A
teenage fan tried to run out to the cele-
brating team. He was tackled by security
and landed at Williams’s feet.
Rather than walk on, Williams
picked the boy up, dusted him off and
said, “I’ll take you back to your parents.”
Once he reached the stands, Williams
took off his winners’ medal and hung it
around the kid’s neck. It was a Mean Joe
Greene Coke commercial come to life.
Williams, then 30, was already an
electrifying and often polarizing star in
rugby. But that gesture made him an in-
ternational sensation.
“I seen a child that was a little bit hurt
and it kinda touched me on my inside,”
Williams said later. “I just done what I
thought was right. I guess it blew a bit
out of proportion.”
In part because of that blowing out of
proportion, Williams is on the verge of
becoming the richest player in rugby,
and in just about the most unlikely
place to do that – Canada.
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oronto Raptors head coach Nick
Nurse made it crystal clear on
Tuesday that he is displeased with
Pascal Siakam’s recent pattern of getting
into foul trouble, and he wants it to stop.
The Raptors star power forward, who
just inked a four-year, US$130-million
max contract extension, is leading the
Raps in average points (26) and re-
bounds (8.5). Yet he has also been foul-
ing too early and too often.
With Toronto’s season just six games
old, Siakam has already fouled out
twice, and tallied at least five fouls four
times.
“He hasn’t been really smart, if you
want me to be honest,” Nurse told re-porters after Tuesday’s practice.
Siakam fouled out of Saturday’s loss
to the Milwaukee Bucks. It also hap-
pened in the season opener against the
New Orleans Pelicans, and he had to
miss the overtime period of a game his
team eventually found a way to win
without him (although it may have
been overshadowed that night by his 34
points). His tendency to pick up two
fouls early in the first quarter has forced
Nurse to sit him down for a breather ear-
lier than desired in a few cases, throwing
off the team’s player rotation.
“He just needs to knock it off,” Nurse
said. “I don’t remember him being a
foul-prone guy at all. For some reason,
all of a sudden, he’s picking up two early
in games and most of them are silly.”
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