The Most Terrifying Moments in NBA History

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
These are the scariest moments in the NBA.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:03)
My goodness, and that is some serious concern.

**Paul Pierce** (0:07)
I remember being at the hospital, thinking on the hospital door, you know, ask them, am I going to die? Am I going to die? I'm going to have a shortness of breath.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:13)
At first, the time Tyrese Halliburton almost had a season-ending injury.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:19)
Six-point Boston League.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:25)
Man, that looks painful, but not as painful as Steph Curry at number 14, because when he played against the Suns, he broke his left hand.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:33)
I love how Pascal did that.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:34)
He closed out on a shitty hand stop.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:37)
Steph Curry with a lot of contact.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:40)
He's holding that left wrist.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:43)
Yeah, that looks scary, but some get even worse, like number 13, because Chris Dunn went up for a dunk and almost lost all his teeth.

**SPEAKER_6** (0:53)
Ooh, ooh, boy, he fell on his face.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:57)
Oh, man, he hurts.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:00)
Wow, he fell into the face.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:02)
Ooh, man.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:03)
Damn, that could have ended much worse, but he's not the only one in danger, because for number 12, Nerlens Noel hit the ground so hard, he was out cold.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:12)
To Steven Adams. He has been all of that. Dijer went up to block the shot of Wiggins.
Met him at the rim. Nerlens Noel, he hit the floor hard.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:24)
That fall looked scary, but number 11 almost ended Jeremy Lin's career, because as soon as he came down from a layup, you could tell something was up.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:32)
Lin goes down hard.

**SPEAKER_8** (1:34)
You could hear the bang as he hit the floor. Oh boy, Jeremy Lin is down.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:41)
Yeah, Lin knew exactly what was going on, because the fall turned out to be a season-ending injury. But look, at least he wasn't at the peak of his career, because at number 10, a player had a career-ending injury during the 2019 NBA Finals. See, in game six, Clay Thompson was going for an easy dunk, when instead, it would change him forever.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:02)
Thompson running the floor, and a foul.
And Thompson grabs his left knee, now writhing in pain. Steph Curry slamming the ball on the court so upset.

**SPEAKER_9** (2:15)
And Mike, if he leaves, he can't come back in. So if he doesn't shoot the free throws, he's out for the rest of the game.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:24)
He was walking to the locker room, and then somebody yelled something. He turns around to shoot the free throws, then you can take him out, obviously.
And he hits the free throw.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:41)
To me, I'm committin to foul, but Clay Thompson looked like he could actually survive on the floor right now.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:45)
He's staying in the game, and there's the foul.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:48)
The man tore his ACL and stood up like it was nothing, and tried to continue playing. It's no wonder he's demanded more respect. And respect is something Joel Embiid needs to learn all about. Because for number nine, he almost killed another player. See, during the playoffs against the Celtics, Embiid lost his balance and ended up almost crushing Grant Williams' head.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:06)
Seventh foot shot a moment ago.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:09)
Almost a turnover, and Embiid falls to the court.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:12)
Oh, wow. Oh, man.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:14)
The dude had a 280-pound giant stepping on his head and said this.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:18)
I know you're good for the ball.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:19)
Yeah, I'm trying to go like jump over, but I ain't even going for the...

**SPEAKER_5** (3:21)
Hey, brother. That's what you battle for, bro.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:24)
That mofo was a real one, but the Utah Jazz had a real one too at number eight, because their team was close to being wiped off the earth. See, in 2019, the Jazz were getting ready to head for a road game against the Memphis Grizzlies. While in the air, though, some players felt an explosion when one of the engines started burning and the plane started going down. And everyone was panicking, as they felt like the plane was about to break apart in midair. Now, luckily, the pilots were able to emergency land and everyone was safe, but they had a lot of players shook.

**Chris Bosh** (3:51)
So I text my mom, my sister, hey, this is it.
Like, I love y'all. Like, we're playing with the engines on fire, whatever, whatever. And if you ever see my mom ask her, they thought I was joking.
They laughing like, how, like what? I'm like, no, I'm dead serious. Like, I'm, the plane's really about to like go down, like the engine exploded and they were like, so everybody's freaking out. So we're not too high. It's high enough where you can still send messages. That's how, so I can see the ground, which made it even worse. Cause I'm like, I can see the salt lake. I can see all this. I'm like, all right, you can put the plane down over here. And it was, I think it was 30 minutes. We were 35 minutes, we were in that plane. And it was, it was probably the scariest moment of my life for me, cause I felt helpless. There was nothing I could do at this point. Cause I'm sitting here like this light, that's not in my hands. The pilot's not speaking, and no one's speaking. And then finally the pilot's like, we've had the engine explode, whatever, we're gonna turn back around, trying to lose some fuel.