The way a game ends will always overshadow what happened the previous 99% of regulation play. Whether it is the walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth, the hail mary, or even the game winner in a shootout in soccer or hockey, there aren't many emotions that match the euphoria felt when your team wins a game in the final second.
When it comes down to the NBA game winner however, there are few emotions that are created by a sport that can top it. After watching your team grind out everything they could for 47 minutes and 59 seconds to get to one moment that could make or break a season and either watching them miss the game winner and lose or sink it and win, your happiness or disappointment that results from that shot will impact the way you act for at least the next day or two and will be implanted in your memory for the rest of your life.
If it's your team or even against your team, you need to appreciate the art of the game winner. It's one of the only moments in time when a player has no thoughts in their head other than that of the basketball hitting the bottom of the net. Their is little thinking when shooti ...
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