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How it happened: Westbrook passes off Hood's back to hit buzzer-beater

Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook inbounds the ball off the back of Jazz guard Rodney Hood and sinks the shot before the halftime buzzer.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Down 15 to the Utah Jazz with 0.7 seconds left before halftime, Billy Donovan burned a 20-second timeout to draw something up.

It was unlikely the Oklahoma City Thunder were going to score in this situation, but it was a use-it-or-lose-it timeout, so Donovan called it and tried to draw up a play anyway. The Thunder weren't playing particularly well, having scored only 36 points and were in desperate need of some kind of boost.