Thriller in DEN@OKC earlier today: Back-forth game, felt like playoffs. SGA hits a 3 with 13.6 left to put OKC up 4. Ya figure that's it. DEN timeout. Ball comes into Jamaal, Joker runs to the top of the arc, Joker gets it, and as his shot is going into motion, Jamaal has a screen for Joker; Jaylin Williams powers through the screen for the whistle: Joker's shot goes in: DEN down 1, and now Murray gets 1 FT for the odd and-one: he hits it: tie game, 126-126. 4 point play with 13 secs left to tie it on the road against the champs. OKC timeout. SGA hits a step-back 3 with 3 secs left, DEN has no timeouts, Aaron Gordon heaves from 70 feet and it hits the backboard. OKC wins.
Bam Adebayo 31 points - Washington 29 in 1 st quarter. Bam Adebayo breaking a Heat franchise record for points in a quarter he already got career high 43 points at half,Had 24 field goal attempts and 14 FT p.s Bam’s stats: 52 points, 30+ shots, 14 3-point attempts and it's still 3 quarter
Really irks me the way Bam got his 83. The whole 4th quarter was a joke. Heat kept fouling (an intentionally missing fts) to get him the ball when he didn't need to play any of the 4th quarter. A true all time game but def bothers me that he beat Kobe's all time record the way he did. People will look back at this game and just see he scored 83, but I (and Pepperidge Farm) will remember how it was done.
Did not see this: NBA says that in review of last 2 mins of DEN game, when Bron inbounded to AR and Jones fouled him intentionally, up 2 with 9.2 left...that Jones stripped the ball "cleanly" and it went out of bounds. The league didn't say which team would have gotten the ball out of bounds after the "clean" strip that was mistakenly called a foul. As I was watching, I thought Jones was trying to foul AR. I don't think any of the commenters (Breen/R-Jeff/Legler) thought it was anything but intentional, but I'll go back and watch it again. Anyway, AR hit both, then we fouled Cam Johnson and he hit both, then AR got fouled near midcourt, when he proceeded to hit the first and then pull off the miracle to force OT. The NBA can blow me: I'm thinking of the last 2 mins of that game against the Bags a couple years ago...
i saw that (espn put at the top of their stories, of course). it was clear they were trying to foul. i do think it's possible you could have not called that one a foul, but it's a weird complaint to make when the plan (to foul) was obvious.
