The shot ricocheted off the backboard, hit Thunder center Steven Adams’s hands and bounced off the ground. OKC guard Dennis Schroder snatched it with a fraction of a second left on the clock.
With that, the Thunder sealed its win. Adams shook Schroder by the shoulders in celebration.
Schroder said after the Thunder’s 99-95 win over the Grizzlies that he didn’t realize his 12th rebound of the night was a career high.
“Whatever it took,” Schroder said. “Everybody was doing it. So for me, just being aggressive and just trying to get some rebounds to help Steve-O was pretty important.