Yesterday, my brother and I were getting ready to go to the game, having a bite to eat at Winking Lizard (I barely could eat….nasty stomach pains all week), when his friend (a Bulls fan) sent him a text message;
“Today is the 20th Anniversary of ‘The Shot’. Think they’ll have a ceremony?”
My brother’s reply was simple;
“Fuck you”
Of course, with the way the Cavaliers are playing in 2009, nobody in town is really thinking about that shot unless they’re being reminded of it by somebody whose team isn’t playing anymore. But this morning, I got to thinking about it. I did some research and came up with a very strange coincidence.
The only real box score I could come up with had the game starting at 7pm. My personal memory had put the game at 330pm (I was covering that game as the Cavaliers beat reporter for a now-defunct Cleveland newspaper), but it appears I’ve been overruled. That box score also says the game took 2 hours and 12 minutes to play.
If this box score is correct, then “The Shot” took place around 9:16pm that fateful night (I give about four minutes for tipoff, there wasn’t often a very lengthy pre-game show on TV back then.
Fast forward to the same exact moment 20 years later….last night.
This is what happened at 9:16pm last night;
I KNOW! Weird!
The only real difference is that LeBron acted like he’d been there before, and Jordan went into hysterics like he’d just gotten his first boner. That, and LeBron’s shot was 20 feet further out than Jordan’s.
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