It’s Dame Time alright!
Damian Lillard buried an enormous buzzer-beater three-pointer to guide the Milwaukee Bucks previous the Sacramento Kings in additional time 143-142 on Monday (all instances AEDT).
It got here after the Kings led 141-137 with 18 seconds left within the further interval earlier than Malik Monk missed a pair of free throws and Brook Lopez responded with a triple on the different finish to make it a one-point recreation.
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On the different finish of the ground, De’Aaron Fox was solely in a position to convert one free throw to place the Kings up 142-140 with 5 seconds on the sport clock.
It led to Lillard getting up one remaining shot, working the ground and nailing an unbelievable off-balance three to win the sport for the Bucks as teammates and followers alike went nuts, adopted by the seven-time All-Star’s trademark ‘Dame Time’ celebration.
Lillard’s first buzzer for Milwaukee, the celebrity guard completed with 29 factors, 5 triples and eight assists in 41 minutes.
Giannis Antetokounmpo in the meantime racked up a triple-double with 27 factors, 10 rebounds and 10 assists and Malik Beasley (23 factors, 5 threes) and Bobby Portis (22 factors, 10 rebounds) additionally chipped in large performances.
It marked a third-straight win for the Bucks, who have been on the second finish of a again to again, to enhance to 28-12.
Fox (32 factors,) Domantas Sabonis (21 factors, 13 rebounds, 15 assists), Kevin Huerter (26 factors, 10 rebounds) and Monk (28 factors, seven boards, seven assists) all had large performances for the now 23-16 Kings, whereas Keegan Murray exited the sport early with a hip difficulty.
It got here in a recreation Kings coach Mike Brown was ejected within the fourth quarter, having to be held again by his gamers whereas he argued with the referee.
Brown post-match continued to argue his case to reporters, taking a dig on the referees together with exhibiting imaginative and prescient on a laptop computer of a foul name that riled him up in a weird second.
ELSEWHERE …
In Minnesota, the Timberwolves held on late to defeat the Clippers 109-105 and finish LA’s three-game profitable streak.
Anthony Edwards exploded with 33 factors and Rudy Gobert added 15 factors, 18 rebounds and 4 blocks because the Wolves moved again out to outright first within the West at 28-11.
Earlier within the recreation, the Clippers bench together with Russell Westbrook mocked Gobert by bursting into laughter after he air balled a free throw within the third quarter.
It was a transfer the finally backfired although, as Gobert made 4 clutch free throws, going 4-of-4 inside the ultimate minute of the sport to assist ice the win for his staff.
Earlier, Nikola Jokic was simply considered one of three Denver gamers to attain 25 factors and the defending champion Nuggets stored Indiana’s high-octane offence in verify in a 117-109 NBA victory over the Pacers.
Jokic simply missed his thirteenth triple-double of the season, including 12 rebounds and 9 assists.
Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray scored 25 factors apiece and Aaron Gordon added 20 factors and 10 rebounds for the Nuggets, who shot a season-high 64.8% from the sector.
Jokic continued his ruthlessly environment friendly scoring, connecting on 12 of 13 photographs from the ground.
All 5 Nuggets starters have been in double figures by the tip of the third quarter and Denver held the NBA’s top-scoring offence to its fifth-fewest factors this season.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone was dissatisfied by his staff’s season-worst 21 turnovers, however filled with reward for Porter, who drilled seven three-pointers in what Malone referred to as “an entire basketball recreation.” “It was straightforward seems to be,” Porter stated. “My teammates have been discovering me so I didn’t must work too laborious for my photographs.” Porter stated the Nuggets have been centered on cooling off the Pacers’ red-hot offence. “We knew they wished to push the tempo,” he stated, joking that the Nuggets had just a little further motivation to forestall former teammate Bruce Brown from getting a win in his return to Denver.
Brown, who performed a key function off the bench within the Nuggets’ title run final season, signed with the Pacers as a free agent.
He was awarded his championship ring in a ceremony earlier than the sport. “He received a championship with us so he’s our brother for all times,” Porter stated. “So it was good to see him.” Brown led Indiana with 18 factors, 10 rebounds and 6 assists however the Pacers, who had received 9 of their earlier 10 video games, couldn’t keep a four-point third quarter lead.
ALL RESULTS
PACERS 109 NUGGETS 117
HORNETS 87 HEAT 104
CLIPPERS 105 TIMBERWOLVES 109
KINGS 142 BUCKS 143 (OT)
SUNS 127 TRAIL BLAZERS 116