Here's the World's First Boinging Buzzer-Beater

Published on 29-Mar-2017 by Alan Adamsson

Basketball - NBA    NBA Daily Review

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Here's the World's First Boinging Buzzer-Beater

Another footnote to sports history has now been registered.

There are dramatic shots in basketball that just barely get in before a game's end.

Many become immortal moments in the minds of some.

Take Duke's former No 32 and all-around PR nightmare, Christian Laettner putting paid to Kentucky in the 1992 Big Dance:

Now, there's another No 32 'Cat-killer in Luke Maye bedeviling Coach Cal's crew:

 

Buzzer-beaters have a way of changing fates, as Wisconsin knows all too well.

Conversely, there are shots that are barely too late, like Xavier's JP Macura letting go a clear tick after the buzzer ...

 

... which was preceded by Gonzaga breaking even. James Williams moments earlier served up the hoops version of an own goal:

 

Now, that's entertainment!

Kinda like this:

Leave it to the backwaters of sportdom, though, to take these sorts of thrills to a new level.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, home to the D-League's Drive, which should now be renamed something that rhymes with boing -- like maybe the Doing -- after Ramón Harris never gave up on this play when a last-tick alley-oop took a detour:

That's either why God invented geometry or proof that Loki's still up to his old tricks.

Call it a convergence of poor aim and sheer hustle. Call it entertainment.

And definitely, call it history.