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The moment was watershed. Transactional, as the (cool) kids like to say now.
Not the half-court shot for the “historic” win, but the 16-point deficit, 44-point fourth quarter against a Lebronversation-led Laker team that was not only on the back end of a game-winning classic against the Pacers the night before, but a team that was playing it’s 10th game in 15 days in the middle of a Midwest road trip while in the middle of a Western Conference playoff race where there has been no such thing as “games off” since before the All-Star break.