Watch: Wall forces Game 7 with deep pull-up 3
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— gifdsports (@gifdsports) May 13, 2017
That funeral will have to wait.
John Wall saved the Washington Wizards by drilling a miraculous pull-up triple to give his team a 92-91 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday, forcing a Game 7.
By no means was that the original play call. The weakest aspect of Wall's game is his jump shot. The Wizards barely beat the five-second count on the inbound. A darting Wall bailed them out and was forced to break the play and get his own shot.
With his team down two and the weight of four decades of franchise futility in his hands, Wall stared down a premier perimeter defender in Avery Bradley and drained the game-winning basket from nearly 30 feet out.
And then the Verizon Center went wild.
Everybody's hands go... 👌#WizCeltics #DCFamily pic.twitter.com/vsa2fHFGnP
— Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) May 13, 2017
Wall finished with 26 points on the night in 42 minutes of play.
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