Jacob Gilyard, the Brooklyn Nets two-way point guard and at 5’8” the shortest player on the court and on an NBA roster this season, drove the lane with seconds left in the Long Island Nets playoff opener Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. and lofted a floater high above a forest of Capital City Go-Go defenders to score the game winner with 0.3 seconds left and give the Nets affiliate a 120-118 win. Long Island, the fifth seed in the East, will now move on to the conference semi-finals Friday against the Osceola Magic in Florida.
The shot provided the short-handed (pun intended!