Melissa Rohlin
FOX Sports NBA writer
Aaron Gordon was in the Denver Nuggets Are Face, with ABC who announced that Gordon had just made the first buzzer-knocking Dunk in the play-off history.
“That’s crazy,” Gordon said, flashing to smile.
A few moments earlier, with the score bound at 99-99 in game 4 of the first round Playoff series of the Nuggets against the La La Clippers, Gordon caught an Airball from Nikola Jokic and made a dunk with two hooks like 0.0 flash on the clock. I immediately run across the field to the tunnel and an arm up in the celebration while he jumped into the air.
The jam was made without a millisecond to save, so the officials were viewed whether the ball left Gordon’s finger tips on time. Jokic was doubtful, pulled himself back to the bank through his team, did not want to be eliminated and the disappointment. But Gordon had long since disappeared, with an unwavering belief that the referees of the referees would go away.
“Oh, I knew,” Gordon told Fox Sports.
It was an incredible finish from a nail biter, in which the Nuggets came a 22-point lead by having the clippers score 34-16 in the fourth quarter. But in the end, Gordon’s Heroics saved the day before the nuggets and tied the series on 2-2.
For Gordon it was a moment of pure delight in the midst of an incredibly tough season in which he mourn the death of his brother in an accident 10 months ago, as well as dealing with several calf tribes.
Nuggets Interim coach David Adelman, who was an assistant when Gordon was the star player in Orlando, you witnessed the growth of the 29-year-old during his career of 11 seasons.
He saw Gordon go from his Man In a team that missed the Play-Offs five times and had two first Playoff outputs, to accept a smaller Rale Aprter, he was treated to Denver at the 2021 Trade Deadline and became an essential piece for their title-winning run in 2023.
“There are certain people in our competition that we define championship pieces,” said Adelman. “I think we say that too much.
Gordon, on a two-way player who is equally happy to have a dominant performance or sacrificial statistics and to do grunt work, chose to ward off the attention of him after making games that went viral on the internet, are described while dracing another national playoff game and Onou. Get on the Mt. Rushmore from the late season buzzer bangers.
When asked how the Dunk felt, Gordon broke to make jokes about Jokic’s Airball.
“Nice pass,” Gordon said, while Jokic was sitting next to him during their post game conference.
Jokic, up to three times MVP who rarely misses the goal so drastically, was asked if he separated the ball to Gordon instead of trying a very wandering 27-foot Fadeaway 3-Pointer.
“No,” said Jokic Schaapig. “It was [a pass]”
Anyway, Gordon’s timing was perfect and he made a winning game for the Nuggets, which are trying to be competence for another championship after being eliminated by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the semi -final of the Western Conference Semifinals last -night season.
Gordon had a highlight Reel Play on Saturday, but Adelman said that his contributions to the Nuggets offer offer Fly under the radar.
“I initiated an attack,” said Adelman. “He monitors the sub of the best players in the NBA. You can post it. He can go one. You can be against smaller boys. You can put him on smaller attacking players. Moreover, it can’t be scissors [points] 8 [rebounds]4 [assists] That night as long as we win. And Subv -Nights, it’s 22 [points]12 [rebounds]6 [assists]” [but]If we lose, he doesn’t care. He wants to win. “
When Gordon was asked about his selflessness, Poledo to Jokic, the leader of the team, who only gains for winning, his family and horses, and is completely unknown with statistics or individual praises.
“This guy is the best player in the world and he is Unselh,” Gordon said. “So if he can do it, everyone can do it.”
The series of the nuggets against the clippers has the most excitation -matchup in the first round of the play -offs, with three of the games that are explained by three points or less. It is not surprising that Game became 4 Chippy, in which three players in each team were taken care of in a technical way after Christian Braun had passed James in the second quarter, with 6.6 seconds left in the second quarter, cash teams to swallow in a skirmish.
Funnily enough, Inserad of ironing Gordon’s more uncomfortable, the clippers may want to blame Ivica Zubac that the game is getting away from them, given that he stopped that Gordon stopped after the Melee after hardening. Harden had pushed Gordon, and the Gordon hit Norman Powell in the face before Zubac Interveda, who led the crowd at Intuit Dome to sing to Gordon, “Kick him out.”
As far as Gordon is concerned, he said he just stood up for his teammate.
“I can’t let anyone go to my young guy, so I just gave back -up,” Gordon said about Braun. “It’s what play -off basketball is about.”
With regard to the nuggets, all five starters ended in double digits, with Jokic who led the lead with 36 points, 21 rebounds and eight assists. But the attention was to Gordon, who had 14 points, six rebounds and five assists – as well as the biggest game of the late season.
Gordon, you came to the Nuggets that he is the ultimate workers’ worker, willing to do everything for his team. This season I had an average of 14.7 points while photographing to career-high 43.6 percent from outside the arch, and got 4.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists a competition.
His figures can be much more impressive for another team.
But he is much bigger about the small things for a team that could win a championship. And after the gold clogs
So Jokic tried his last second 3-Pointer above Zubac, he won internally, where he was acting six words: “This will be bad.”
But he didn’t need the world.
Gordon did what he does best and did the little things for his team.
Only this little thing not only lifted his team into a victory, but it also made the history books.
Melissa Rohlin is an NBA writer for FOX Sports. She previously dealt with the competition for Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Turn the Bay Area News Group and the San Antonio Express-News. Follow Twitter @Melissarohlin.
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