Editors note: This story was originally published on July 6, 2022. Max Strus scored 31 points in the Heat's play-in victory over the Bulls.
IT WAS AUG. 11, 2021, and inside the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, what appeared to be an ordinary NBA summer league game between the Miami Heat and Memphis Grizzlies was anything but.
This was sudden death, after the NBA had seven years prior changed the rules for summer league games that go into double overtime.
Next basket wins.
Tied at 94, Heat big man Omar Yurtseven won the opening jump, tipping the ball to Max Strus.