Anthony Davis deserves all of the praise he’s received for his game-winner against the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals on Sunday — a shot that gave the Lakers a 2-0 lead in a series that should probably be tied.
However, there’s one player outside of Davis that deserves as much credit for his exhilarating game-winning 3-point shot, and it’s not Mason Plumlee: it’s Rajon Rondo.
Rondo was on the bench for the Lakers’ first two attempts at a go-ahead basket: a 3-point attempt from Alex Caruso that hit the front of the rim and a long 2-point jump shot from Danny Green that was blocked out of bounds by Jamal Murray.