Jazz guard Deron Williams hit a step-back jumper in the lane to break a tie then the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant missed a winning 3-point attempt at the buzzer and the Jazz celebrated a victory in Game 3 of a 2009 first-round playoff series.
A determined Bryant scorched the Jazz with 38 points in a convincing win in Salt Lake City two nights later. The Jazz would face four more elite teams in the NBA’s Western Conference playoffs over the next nine years before doing what they did Wednesday in Houston: They beat a No. 1 seed in a postseason game.