There were less than two seconds left on the clock. The game was tied as the home team got into its defensive assignments, trying to send the game to overtime. Their defensive stopper took up position in the shirt of the other team’s best player — a four-time MVP. The home fans stood, biting nails and clinging to one another. A stop here would allow them a chance to take a 3-1 series lead in overtime against a team they could never beat for the life of them in this era.
Then, of course, LeBron James wriggled free of Jimmy Butler — very unlike No.