NYC playground legend God Shammgod helping guide Mavericks as coach in NBA Finals

DALLAS — When God Shammgod returns home to the people who watched his dribbling brilliance, there’s shock that he became famous for a move so low on his list of tricks –  a swipe back crossover built with a quick redirection that’s still known as “The Shammgod.”

“It’s probably the worst move I’ve ever done,” Shammgod told The Post. “In New York, they’ve seen so many other stuff that I’ve done, they’re like, ‘They know you for that? With all the other stuff you were doing?’

“And I laugh. I relate it to 50 Cent. 50 Cent will always say he made all this great music, but everybody only wants to hear ‘In Da Club.’”

It was fitting that Shammgod, now an assistant coach in the NBA Finals for the Mavericks, compared himself to a rap artist. As he acknowledged in an interview before Game 2, hip hop shaped his life and career.

The influence was inevitable growing up in the 80s and 90s in Harlem, where his neighborhood friends included Mase, Cam’ron and Big L.

Shammgod was especially close with Mase, a quadruple platinum-selling rapper in the late 90s while on the Bad Boy label with Puff Daddy and Biggie Smalls.