Pure Miracles: Impossible NBA Moments

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These are the most impossible moments in NBA history. And first, we gotta talk about the most disrespectful ending to a playoff series.
That's impossible, but Russell Westbrook had the most impossible dunk of all time, because when he went up for the slam, Westbrook!

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Oh, and it goes in! Westbrook with a big smile.

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Now, would you believe me if I told you a team forgot which basket to protect? Because out of a timeout, the entire MAF starting lineup jogged to the wrong side of the court and handed the Warriors a free dunk.

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Look at this. This is the Warriors' basket in the second half.

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There's no matter of defenders.

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I've never seen this in my life.

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What team meeting were they in? But Harrison Barnes made a bucket while laying on the hardwood, but as CP3 took a charge so hard, Barnes ended up flat on his back, looking straight up at the rim.

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Harrison Barnes.

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He dunked his way in to Paul.

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That was some kind of shot, and Barnes at the... How did he get this to go?

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But Dwight Howard brought part of the arena down with him, because in game one of the conference finals, he dunked so hard, the shot clock came down.

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Look, Dwight Howard is right there.

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He just pulled down the shot clock.

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Just what we need here is a delay.

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Dwight Howard pulling down the basket and the shot clock collapsing from behind.

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Delayed the whole game for eight minutes. And Steph was so nice, he could score sitting down. See, when his legs folded mid-drive, he still managed to do the impossible.

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And Steph Curry trying to draw a foul, flips in a three.

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Now, Daryl Dawkins was a different type of impossible, because in 1979, he had it done so nasty, it caused the first in-game backboard shatter in NBA history.

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The Sixers up 108-99, and destroyed his second backboard of the season. This time, it didn't bring it all down, but the rim popped out and landed on the floor.

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The league invented breakaway rims after this, when Lebron was playing streetball in the finals, because in game three of the 2017 finals, he had an open lane in transition. So he threw it off the backboard and caught his own line.

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James drives, scoop left, pass to himself, and he throws it down.

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Lebron James in transition. What in the air?

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Nothing else to do, throws it off the backboard.

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In the finals, dog? But bam, out of by you, Mr. Dunk, and broke the rim on the same play, because in the game four of the 2023 finals, he hung on the iron so hard, the whole thing tilted sideways.

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Christian Brown left him, Jokic gets there.

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And then looking at the rim right now saying it's a little crooked.

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It does look crooked from our angle here. It looks a little crooked.

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And Russ was missing wide open buckets in LA, because back to back possessions against Denver, a former MVP with two point blank layups in a row.

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Two of six shooting so far, and that's been the issue with Westbrook. He's not the finisher he has been during his career.

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Westbrook in the try board, couldn't finish it.

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How are you going to miss both, dog? But Shaq broke more than a backboard in 93 See, one dunk as a rookie in Phoenix made the NBA redesign the entire stanchion.
But Devontae Graham said hi from the wrong half of the court, because with 1.4 seconds and all tied in OKC, he launched one from his own defensive end.

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And give Shaq Gilchrist Alexander credit as Devontae sends it.

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Gets it!

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Gets it!

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The game winner!

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Devontae Graham stuns him in Oklahoma City.

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That's the longest game winner in NBA history, but Darren Collison hit a game leading three that didn't count. Bads were down two with the clock winding down, and Collison buried a three to take the lead at the buzzer.

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Here's Collison. Did he get it off? Well, they're gonna replay it, and I'm telling you, it's very close.

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Now, the refs obviously wanted to review it, and it turned out the arena game clock was broken the entire possession, so they wiped the shot right off the board.