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. The second-year guard, who had played a total of 513 NBA minutes in his first two seasons, calmly took seven dribbles -- from the opposite 3-point line to the Heat's -- and launched.