Utah's Trevor Booker Makes One Of The Craziest Shots Ever [VIDEO]
By Dan Jenkins
@DanTJenkins
Many people have been calling this one the shot of the year. Others are calling it pure luck.
Trevor Booker calls it something that he's practiced.
The Utah Jazz visited the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night where they lost 99-94, but that wasn't the story. With 0.2 seconds left on the shot clock late in the second quarter Gordon Hayward was charged with the duty of inbounding the ball from the sideline.
As explained by the Pistons' Stan Van Gundy, the Jazz could only tip the ball -- not catch and shoot -- per NBA rules with less than 0.3 seconds on the clock. No problem for Booker.
Hayward inbounded a bounce pass to Booker, who flashed to the baseline with his back to the basket. Then, in a move that would make many volleyball players proud, Booker tipped the ball from around his chest, backward over his head as the clock expired.
The shot went in to the surprise of both Jazz and Thunder players alike. The announcers, perhaps rightfully so, called the shot "the definition of a grandma shot."
RT @JazzGameNight: I looked frame-by-frame. He was touching it for 8 frames(8/60ths of a second), while 0.2 seconds is 12 frames. Count it!!
— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) January 10, 2015
Lucky? Or amazing? You make the call.