Morning Wrap: Wizards Win on Buzzer Beating Alley-Ooop

Yes, this really happened in the NBA Tuesday night. The Washington Wizards stole a game from the Orlando Magic in Orlando on an alley-ooop pass at the buzzer.

Wizards guard Andre Miller was the trigger man on the play, throwing a perfect pass to a streaking Bradley Beal who beat his man on the curl. Beal caught the ball in front of the rim a dropped it in as the horn sounded.

The hoop gave Washington the 91-89 win and moved them to 15-6 on the season.

Your highlights from NBA.com:

John Wall's Very Emotional, Very Long Day

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John Wall played with what seemed like an endless supply of energy in the Washington Wizards-Boston Celtics game last night.

The reason was that Wall lost a very close, personal friend and fan in 6-year-old Miyah Telemaque-Nelson. Miyah was one of the many victims to cancer these days- one of the too many, really. After dedicating a double-overtime victory to her, Chris Nelson talked to Wall afterwards.

Here's his postgame reaction


There are times when sports is reduced to its emotional core and support for everyone else around you is shown in a raw fashion.

It's sad that takes events like Wall's loss to remind us of what is important...

And The Dunk Of The Night Goes To...???

((HT: Kyle Weidie's Vine))

Either John Wall...


Or Paul George...
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John Wall Defies Gravity

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All John Wall does here is put Mike Dunleavy into the passenger seat for this one...


See...???

Former NBA Player Crittenton's Legal Issues Pile Up

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This is a serious SMH. We got the opportunity to cover former NBA and Georgia Tech basketball player Javaris Crittenton as early as his High School days when he was teammates with Dwight Howard.

We never thought his career, much less his life would play out like this.

Already in jail and facing murder charges from a 2011 shooting that cost an Atlanta mother of 4 her life, Crittenton can now add drug charges to the ever growing list.

His name along with thirteen other people were named in an indictment that was released on Wednesday. Crittenton was in his Fayetteville, GA house when DEA agents and local police executed a warrant and led him from his home in handcuffs.

Read more from ESPN.com RIGHT HERE

It's just sad to see what happened to a kid who had all the potential in the world. He had crazy success with Howard at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy winning a state title.


That success got him a scholarship to Georgia Tech in 2007, where he played very well his first season, leading the team to an NCAA Tournament berth. He left Tech after one season and was taken by the Los Angeles Lakers in the following year's draft.

We remember when he announced he was leaving Tech that then head coach Paul Hewitt told us he had some concerns Crittenton wasn't ready to handle the NBA life, but he knew there were other issues at play which led to the move. His gun incident while with the Washington Wizards and Gilbert Arenas in 2011, was the tip of the iceberg.

Reading that Crittenton has been linked to gangs, killed someone and was involved with a drug ring is just a sad tag to a life of potential.

A life that seems to now be a total waste.......
WSB-TV in Atlanta  gives us the TV story:

Morning Buzzer Beater: Al Horford With The Fadeaway For The Win

Nothing like falling down and throwing the ball towards the basket and seeing it go in for the win.

That's what happened last night to Atlanta Hawks center Al Horford.

Horford hit a shot just like the above description Friday night giving the Hawks a 101-99 win over the Washington Wizards.

Watch the video, you can see Horford falling down, but managing to kinda shoot the ball.

Nothing but net….

((Note--The snarky "This game shouldn't be in the 1st block of SportsCenter comment by anchor Neil Everett, was low class. Dude---you run highlights of crappy New York Knicks in the 1st block---all the time. Nobody cares))

ICYMI: Wizards Play By Play Guy Calls Game Winner That Never Happened

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Yes, for a guy calling a professional or for that matter any sports game on TV, there's nothing more exciting to call a "Game Winner".

And that's what makes this call so funny.

Steve Buchantz, who calls Washington Wizards games for Comcast Sports was so ready to call a game winning 3-pointer that he actually called it, even though the shot, by Wizards forward Trevor Ariza drew nothing but air, just tickling the bare-bottom part of the net.

What's funnier, is despite the despondent look on Ariza's face and cutaways of the victorious Detroit Pistons, Buchantz stayed with the buzzer beater call for a minute.

Check out the video:

Sportscaster Goes Shirtless After Losing Bet On Twitter

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Three-and-a-half minutes into overtime Friday, the Washington Wizards had an eight-point lead over the Brooklyn Nets.

This gave WUSA-TV Sports anchor Dave Owens enough reason to think aloud on his Twitter feed:

“If the Wizards blow this I’ll do the sportscast without a shirt on!”

The Wizards gave up 11 straight points to go down by three, forced double-overtime on a Bradley Beal three-pointer, and lost.

Thus, we have the following...

Lesson here...???
The Twitter is a dangerous place...

Nick Young and the Layup of the day

You hate to kick someone when they are down...but this is just too funny not to show.

Washington Wizards guard Nick Young appears to have a breakaway layup two days ago versus the Lakers.

However...uh...he missed the layup...by a large margin.