The "Miami Vice" star had a fateful encounter with the NBA player after a Celtics game.
Don Johnson in 2024; Dennis Johnson in 1983
Don Johnson in 2024; Dennis Johnson in 1983.
Don Johnson is still thinking about the time he met Dennis Johnson and his johnson.
During a recent visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Miami Vice star opened up about the fateful day he got an unexpected peek at what the late Basketball Hall of Famer was hiding underneath his shorts after being invited into the Boston Celtics' locker room by his pal Larry Bird following a game.
"I was standing there and we're shooting the breeze and stuff, and I turn and I look and coming out of the showers is Dennis Johnson," Don recalled. "And Dennis Johnson's johnson is the star of the show."
To further accentuate his point, Don mimed doing a wide-eyed double take at the point guard's lower half. "It was a statement," he added.
Don Johnson on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'.
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Without saying a word, Don recounted how he turned around to look at Bird and his teammate Kevin McHale.
"I went like this," the actor said, lifting a hand up to show his surprise. Bird and McHale simply sent him nods of agreement before replying, "Right?"
And yet somehow, that wasn’t the wildest development of the evening. "The coup de grâce is that when I'm leaving the arena, [Dennis] is in the tunnel with his wife, who is this tall," Don said, lifting his hand up to showcase Donna Johnson's small stature. "And I just had to stop there for a minute and go, 'Yeah, the math doesn't really work on this.'"
Host Jimmy Kimmel noted that he believed Dennis "would be very pleased" with the anecdote that Don chose to share on the show.
"That I'm bragging about his junk on national [television]?" the actor joked, to which Kimmel replied, "You know what? That's how I hope my funeral will go."
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Kimmel added, "At my funeral, I hope they're not able to close the casket, you know?" The pair then burst into a fit of laughter.
A five-time All-Star and three-time NBA champion, Dennis Johnson played 14 seasons of pro basketball, from 1976 until 1990. Following his departure from the game, he worked as a coach for teams including Celtics and the Los Angeles Clippers. He died of a heart attack in 2007, at 52, and was posthumously inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.