{"id":73712,"date":"2026-05-19T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/lucky-socks-family-guy-viewings-and-five-showers-a-day-the-world-of-nba-superstitions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:55:13","slug":"lucky-socks-family-guy-viewings-and-five-showers-a-day-the-world-of-nba-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/lucky-socks-family-guy-viewings-and-five-showers-a-day-the-world-of-nba-superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky socks, Family Guy viewings and five showers a day: the world of NBA superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes spend thousands of hours refining their game. But sometimes they try other measures to gain success<\/p>\n<p>For Jason Terry, everything changed in 1997. It was the night before the NCAA national championship game and Terry\u2019s Arizona Wildcats were set to take on the University of Kentucky. Terry shared hotels rooms with teammate Mike Bibby on road trips and the pair understandably had trouble sleeping before the biggest game of their lives so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Bibby and I were anxious for the game,\u201d Terry says. \u201cSo, we both put our full uniforms on \u2013 socks, everything. And we slept in them. The next day, we ended up winning the national championship. After that, I was like, \u2018OK, I think I\u2019m superstitious and I need to keep this thing going.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/19\/lucky-socks-family-guy-viewings-and-five-showers-a-day-the-world-of-nba-superstitions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes spend thousands of hours refining their game. But sometimes they try other measures to gain success For Jason Terry, everything changed in 1997. It was the night before the NCAA national championship game and Terry\u2019s Arizona Wildcats were set to take on the University of Kentucky. Terry shared hotels rooms with teammate Mike Bibby &#8230; <a title=\"Lucky socks, Family Guy viewings and five showers a day: the world of NBA superstitions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/lucky-socks-family-guy-viewings-and-five-showers-a-day-the-world-of-nba-superstitions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lucky socks, Family Guy viewings and five showers a day: the world of NBA superstitions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}