I know it's been awhile since I've posted. It's not for lack of things to talk about (oddly, since it's officially the off season now), but just basically because I'm lazy. I have made a list of things to write about, but first I wanted to mention something that's not on the list.
It was recently the 31st anniversary of the Greatest Game in the history of the NBA. I was a basketball fan for the 30th anniversary, but I didn't know about it then.
It was game 5 in the finals between the Celtics (of course, weren't they all back then?) and the Suns. The Celtics won in a triple overtime forced by one of the awesomest sequences that I've ever heard about.
According to Harvey Frommer (from the above link), with one second left on the clock and Boston up by one the Suns' Paul Westphal asked for, and received, a timeout he knew his team was not entitled to. It was good strategy, though. The Celtics were given a technical foul, whereupon Jo Jo White hit the free throw. The Celtic lead was moved up to two points, but the technical foul enabled the Suns to make the inbounds pass from midcourt.
Forward Gar Heard caught the pass to the right of the free-throw line, turned and hit a 20-foot jumper right at the buzzer. The noisy Garden faithful was stunned into silence for the moment. And they went into a third and final overtime.
Not only is this an amazing turn of events (that I wish I could see), but it all happened on my birthday. Which, yeah, was two weeks ago. I intended to post about it on the day itself, but you know what they say about the road to Hell.
Next time I post it will either be about the Mystics and their season of doom or about Leandro and his chances of being at the FIBA Americas tournament in Vegas. There are other things too (7 Seconds or Less, trade rumors, Kobe, etc.), but the likelihood is that one of those will be next.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
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