Malik Sealy’s game-winner against the Pacers on Jan. 17, 2000 will go down as an iconic moment in Timberwolves history.
Part of it was the shot, sure. We’ll get into that. But a bigger part of it was that the basketball world lost Sealy in a car accident four months later. The truck that hit Sealy’s vehicle was driving the wrong way on the highway. It was discovered later that the driver had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, nearly double the state’s legal limit.
Sealy was just 30 years old. Obviously too young to go, especially in a way that could have been so easily prevented.