NBA Guard Shoves Knocked-Out Tooth Into Sock Before Continuing Play

To the horror of every dentist within 50 miles of Atlanta, Georgia, Hawks point guard Dennis Schröder needed only a loose tooth on Monday night to prove that the NBA is truly where amazing happens .

In the fourth quarter of the Hawks’ game against the Portland Trail Blazers, Schröder tried to take the ball to the hoop, before running full force into a Blazer defender. The collision -- Schröder's mouth, Meyers Leonard’s knee -- jolted the guard’s head backward and sent his tooth flying forward . 

The grossest best part of the sequence was what happened next: Schröder simply picked up the tooth, tucked it into his sweaty left sock and kept playing.  

Only time will tell whether the tooth fairy left a few quarters in his Nikes after the contest.

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