When I found out that Jerry Stackhouse had signed a one-year, veteran's minimum deal to join the new-look Brooklyn Nets this season, I had the same reaction that a lot of you probably did: "Hey, it's cool that Jerry's coming out of retirement!" Imagine my surprise and embarrassment at learning that Stackhouse actually played in 30 games for the Atlanta Hawks last season, and that the veteran swingman is, in fact, 37 years old and not "a billion," as I'd guessed. At the time, Stackhouse told Fox Sports Florida's Chris Tomasson that he viewed his upcoming stint in Brooklyn as something of a yearlong internship, noting that it came about after he contacted Nets coach Avery Johnson "to pick his brain about" coaching and entering "the next phase of [his] career." He got some important X's and O's work in at the Greater N.C. Pro-Am on Wednesday night, according to Howard Gutman at the Herald-Sun newspaper of Durham, N.C. . As you can see in the video above, Stackhouse won the game he helped found three years ago by hitting a 25-foot buzzer-beater, giving his Banks Law Firm team a two-point win over rival DTLR. How did he do it? "By drawing up a play for himself," according to Gutman.

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