The Pelicans player made the closing game against the Thunder sensational.
A game in the sewers of the West, a conference that fell apart this season in the NBA, had the most incredible resolution so far this year, a movie ending that made headlines a match that pointed to anonymous: The Pelicans beat the Thunder in Oklahoma City (110-113) and there was a relay in the tail: the first are penultimate (9-21), the second are already last (8-19, eleven losses in thirteen games).
Without Zion Williamson and without news (not good, at least) about their theoretical franchise player, the Pelicans took the joy of the year after a bad start and thanks to an ending in which there were two heroes. First Brandon Ingram, who scored his team’s 10 points between 102-100 and 107-110. And then, of course, Devonte ‘Graham, that he solved with the furthest triple winner of the last quarter of a century: almost from his own line of three, about 19 meters (61 feet) from the rival rim.
Nor have we seen in the last 25 years two triples at a minimum of ten meters in the last five seconds. First Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a circus, unbalanced and desperate, to tie (110-110) from those 10 meters, and then came the miracle, when the extension seemed a certainty, from Graham (buzzer-beater).
Thus a game was resolved in which Ingram finished with 34 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, Graham with 15 + 4 + 8 and Jonas Valanciunas with 19 points and 16 rebounds. A rock, as almost always. In the Thunder, without Lu Dort, 35 points and 25 shots from Gilgeous-Alexander (10/25) and good minutes from the rookie Josh Giddey (17 + 9 + 7) and the underrated Kenrich Williams (17 + 6 + 3). In the visitors, 13 minutes for Willy Hernangómez: 7 points and 3 rebounds. (D)
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