This Is Really Cool: Special Needs Student Hits Buzzer Beater On Boston's Famed Parquet Floor

Brendan Durkin is the team manager for the Newton (Mass.) North boys basketball team.  Brendan is a special needs student with Downs Syndrome and he received some playing time against rival Newton South in the Good Sports Invitational at the TD Garden in Boston.

Durkin had a chance to beat the buzzer, and did.

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Glendale Deer Valley (AZ) High manager Jose Meraz played only one moment in his whole high school career, but it was a great one for the special needs student...
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And local coverage was what it should have been...
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“He’s the most popular kid in school,” Deer Valley head coach Jed Dunn told AzCentral's Richard Obert. “About 12 cheerleaders were around him, hugging him and kissing him.”
As well they should have...