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J.J. Watt’s recovery from groin surgery was sufficient that he returned to practice last week.

But since he felt like a little more work this weekend, he used his social media reach to hustle up a few pickup basketball games.

According to Matt Young of the Houston Chronicle, Watt put out word on Twitter that he was looking for a game, and showed up at a city park and a fire station to play some hoops.

“He just walked up with a ball like anyone else,” said 17-year-old Damon Cormier, Jr. “We were all like, ‘Is that really J.J. Watt?’ Then, we just started playing.

“There was a little bit of trash talking, but not too much, because he’s J.J. Watt. Some people were scared to guard him though, because he’s so big.”

Watt also turned up at Fire Station 9, and spent about 45 minutes playing with the firemen.

“He was just a regular guy,” firefighter Paul Portis said. “I think all the guys were kind of in awe. There wasn’t a whole lot of conversation during the game, just a group of guys playing hoops.”

Of course, Watt could have been a regular guy without alerting his 2,000,000 Twitter followers, but that wouldn’t provide as much of a chance to share his logo.