In the NBA, there are aspects of the game you can control, and a handful of things you can’t. On Sunday night, the Thunder got beat by both.
A furious rally erased a 13-point fourth quarter deficit and put the Thunder up by one with 5.1 seconds remaining, but Minnesota’s Andrew Wiggins took the inbounds pass, slalomed through Thunder defenders and one oversized screen from Karl-Anthony Towns, and banked in a 30-foot heave at the buzzer to give the Thunder a 115-113 loss.
The fans at Chesapeake Energy Arena were stunned, because over the final seven minutes or so, the Thunder’s defense was as tight as you can get.