Matt Bonner is back, and back in the San Antonio Spurs rotation as well.
The famously friendly former Raptor looked like his season had fallen on hard times when he missed 15 games after tearing a ligament in his knee January 15th.
But five weeks later Bonner is back on the floor, and based on his 13-point, 12-minute outing against Seattle on Saturday, will continue to find some playing time in the Spurs' deep lineup.
"I'm going to do what I do," said Bonner, who has connected on 39.3 per cent of his three-pointers this season. "The main thing for me is to come out and play harder than everyone else. If I hit shots, great, but the main this is to bring energy and go out there and hustle."
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Bonner is also big on the Internet lately. Thanks to a grainy home video he and his brother Luke shot a couple of summers ago, the average person can now go to You Tube and see what the best basketball player in the state of New Hampshire does in his free time.
The video, shot by Bonner, is called The Matt Bonner Challenge and features his younger brother Luke as the University of Massachusetts sophomore tries to hit - consecutively - a right and left-handed lay-up, a free throw, a college-distance three-pointer, two NBA three-pointers and back down to the lay-ups, nine shots in all.
The younger Bonner doesn't do so well, and his older brother lets him know it.
"There's not a lot to do in New Hampshire," Bonner explains. "And one or two summers ago we were sitting there, like 'what are we going to do?' so we got a video camera and went to the YMCA and started messing around with it. Then we went home and messed around on the computer, put corny side effects in and made some DVDs and one of our friends put it on You Tube."
The underground hit is most popular with his teammates, Brent Barry and Tim Duncan in particular.
"They think it's absolutely hilarious," says Bonner. "We did it corny on purpose, we're not that corny as people - well probably we are - but we were trying to be funny that way."
Barry got it mentioned in a newspaper article recently and the hits, as they say, have kept on coming.
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