Only three seconds were left when 17-year-old Mike Shelly of Newtown Square made a half court shot at the Philadelphia 76ers game Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center, a move that won every one of the nearly 21,000 people in attendance at the sold-out game a free Chick-Fil-A chicken biscuit.
Shelly, whose winning shot went viral, knows a thing or two about making every second count. At 14, he was diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and in August, he lost his big brother, Andrew, in a car accident.
The often random nature of life had hit the Shelly family hard recently, but it was a bit of random luck that got Shelly to the court during Saturday’s game.