Daily News | Joel Embiid’s last-second shot is one for the ages, and for his own legacy
TORONTO — There was something unusual in the air as Doc Rivers picked up the whiteboard and began to scribble. Truth be told, it had been there all night, lingering alongside the boos and the groans and the expletive-laden chants that filled the pulsing fluorescence of a desperate arena.
There was a time when a comment like that would have prompted an entire major metropolitan area to roll its collective eyes. Death and taxes and Joel Embiid leaving the paint for the three-point line, the Delaware Valley’s tripartite curse. The last time he’d been in this arena on this stage, he’d spent so much time there that it threatened to define him, a tear-stained scoresheet telling the tale: 6-for-18 from the field, 1-for-6 from deep, a two-point loss in a decisive Game 7.
They did not deserve to be within striking distance at any point in the second half, let alone where they in the climactic moments: tied at the five- and three-minute marks of the fourth quarter, down by one with a minute left, all knotted up again with 50 seconds to play. They should not have even been in position to muck things up the way they did with 27.
So when Rivers took the whiteboard and uncapped the pen, he did so without hesitation. Maxey would roll, Georges Niang would flare, Harris would screen, and the best guy on the court would get his chance to shoot the ball. They’d worked on it often, attempted it several times before.
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