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The Shot 2.0 – LeBron Rewrites History for Cleveland. New #23. »
One second is an eternity to LeBron James. “For me, a second is a long time for me,” James said. “You know, for others it is very short.” James shocked the basketball world with his 25-foot buzzer-beater in the Cavaliers’ 96-95 victory over Orlando in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. LeBron James is mobbed by his Cavs teammates after hitting the game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals against Orlando. He said it felt like when he was a kid shooting in his backyard. “You practice those kinds of moments as a kid,” James said. “As a basketball player, you are sitting in your backyard (or) you are in the gym and you are five, four, three, two, one (buzzer sound). “You don’t have to be in the NBA to know what I’m talking about. Everybody knows those types of moments. To hit a shot like that at the buzzer at home … wow.” Wow is right. Many likened it to Michael Jordan’s “Shot,” which has lived in infamy in Cleveland since he knocked the Cavs out of the 1989 playoffs at the Richfield Coliseum. Many are predicting it’s a shot for the ages. “That’s a shot that you will see for a long time,” James said. “You watch classic games and you see Jordan hit game-winners and you go all the way back, Jerry West hitting game-winners, and Magic Johnson going across the lane and hitting the jump hook against Boston. “It was like watching a movie,” Magic center Dwight Howard said. “He’s the MVP of the league. That’s what he does best.” The 20,562 went absolutely crazy.
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