Look. I know the Pelicans and the Thunder are both pretty stinky NBA teams, generally.
Sure, they give you good games here and there. But these teams? They’re not in it for the wins. They’re in it for the tan…er,uh…improving the team as they head into the future.
So that means right now, neither team is particularly good. In fact, you could argue that they play some pretty bad basketball.
But the thing about bad basketball is that these are still professional NBA players. So even at their worst, they can give us the most ridiculously exciting and mind-numbingly silly sequences that we’ll be talking about for days, months and even years to come.
And that, folks, is how you’d perfectly describe the ending of the Pelicans-Thunder game. It was exciting. It was silly. It made absolutely no sense. But it was also perfect. So so so so perfect.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hits what probably should’ve been a game-tying shot after the Pelicans try to foul him in the waning moments of the game. He hits that and you’re like “OK, cool. Overtime. Let’s do it.”
But, obviously, Devonte Graham had other plans.
THE ENDING TO THE PELICANS-THUNDER GAME 😱
DEVONTE' GRAHAM PAST HALF COURT FTW pic.twitter.com/KQDj7irO36
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 16, 2021
YO. THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE. NO SENSE AT ALL. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!?!?!?
NBA fans were just shocked.
