With all the hoopla surrounding instant replay and the Brad Miller non-buzzer beater last night in the Bulls-Nuggets game in Chicago, I figured it would be a good time to take a stroll down memory lane.
The year was 2002 and the Celtics were up against the Defending Champion Lakers. Kenny Anderson and Antoine Walker led the way with a young Paul Pierce for the Green against Shaq, Kobe and company, a year after Shaq had given PP his “Truth” nickname. The Celtics had battled all the way back from a double digit deficit in the final minutes of the 4th quarter in The Staples Center, bringing us to a riveting conclusion.
The clip shows the final two minutes of the contest, including an replay review of Kobe’s final shot, which was just as close if not closer to the buzzer than Brad Miller’s was from last night. You guys can be the judge on that.
In any case, I have had this clip stored in my YouTube favorites for awhile, so now seems like as good of a time as any to break it out. The non-buzzer beater takes place at 1:29, but in all honesty, the entire 3:30 clip is worth watching from Toine’s bank 3 giving the C’s the lead with 1 second left, to the C’s giddy celebration to the locker room when the final shot was ruled to be no good. Enjoy.
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it was out of his hand, wrong call by the refs.
on another note, is there a single shot that could sum up walker’s career more than that desperation heave that banked in?
Couldn’t have said it better myself Jonathan. Watching it live at 1am back in 2002, I think I woke up the entire house while screaming….no no…..YES! once he took that. Unbelieveable.
God, that was awesome.