Minutes after he'd thrown in a 21-footer off the glass to give the Wizards a 103-101 victory and 2-1 series lead over Atlanta, Paul Pierce was asked by an ESPN reporter if he'd called bank.
"I called game," Pierce replied. "Game."
The veteran and former Celtic captain continues to be more than game, providing 13 points in 26 minutes tonight as the Wizards won without injured All-Star point guard John Wall.
Pierce saved Washington, which had built a 21-point lead with a little less than 10 minutes remaining and watched as the Hawks went deep into their bench and came back to tie the game on a trey my Mike Muscala with 14 seconds left.