In the final minutes Monday night as the Knicks were desperately scrambling their way back into the game, Courtney Lee raced out ahead of the pack for a breakaway layup. In his first action of the season, he considered his options for heroics.
Dunk? A simple layup? The answer was easy for Lee, just do anything but what he did — miss the open layup with just over two minutes left in the game.
“Too much adrenalin,” Lee said afterward. “I was moving fast. My legs were burning so I didn’t trust them to try to dunk it.