'Whatever AirPod that is': Josh Hart has a history of losing headphones

On June 7, Portland Trail Blazers defender Josh Hart fto the satellite successful connected a small concealed -- helium loses his AirPods. A lot.

Hart initially responded to a tweet asking a elemental question: "Is it bougie to bargain a 2nd brace of Airpods truthful that erstwhile I'm traveling I tin perceive to them portion my archetypal brace recharges?"

Hart replied it was "Acceptable, particularly if you suffer one. I person had excessively galore AirPods." But conscionable however galore wasn't revealed until his adjacent tweet.

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That database has grown immoderate since that tweet -- and it besides didn't amusement however galore devices Hart really has. The last tally: 26 Bluetooth headphone devices are attached to his phone.

Hart has had 9 regular AirPods, 2 AirPod Max headphones, 5 AirPod Pros (at slightest 1 caller brace since June), six Beats Studios, 3 Powerbeats Pro by Beats and 1 conscionable labeled "New Airpods."

"Whatever AirPod that is," Hart said.

Hart revealed helium present travels with 2 other sets of AirPods -- 1 Max and 1 Pro -- conscionable successful lawsuit helium loses one. It astir happened Wednesday nighttime successful Charlotte, North Carolina.

"I really mislaid my lawsuit yesterday," Hart said. "Luckily, our information dude recovered it."

What happened?

"I don't know," Hart said. "I conscionable got connected the level and I'm like, 'F---, I mislaid it.'"

Hart said 1 of the team's information unit brought them connected the level and asked if the lawsuit belonged to anyone connected the team. Of course, they were Hart's.

Hart added astir of his teammates cognize astir his wont of misplacing his devices now.

"Most of them astir apt figured retired if it's headphones, they astir apt cognize it's mine," Hart said.

So however does Hart suffer astir of them? He doesn't truly know. It could beryllium leaving them successful locker rooms. It could beryllium destroying them connected purpose. That happened astatine slightest once.

In Denver connected Christmas Day 2019, Hart was warming up during pregame, going done his accustomed shooting routine. After a fewer misses from 3-point range, Hart grew frustrated with his Beats Studios and spiked them to the court. He calmly picked them up, tossed them successful a trash tin and continued his workout.

With caller exertion though, Hart hopes determination aren't arsenic galore instances of mislaid AirPods moving forward.

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"This was earlier they had Find My iPhone and Find My AirPods and each that," Hart said. "Now that they got that, I'm definite it'll astir apt beryllium a small better."

Hart and longtime woman Shannon Phillips joined past summertime anterior to the 2021-22 NBA season. Does she cognize astir him buying an abundance of caller AirPods conscionable successful lawsuit helium loses more? She mightiness now.

"I conscionable don't archer her," Hart said. "I conscionable spell and bargain [them]. That's astir it. I bargain [them] and past she conscionable doesn't know. She doesn't support way of stuff."