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NBA loves laker loving and Spurs hating..
0.4 helped to win the series between 2 "neck and neck" franchises who had won the 5 previous les. It is also generally reflected as one of the greatest shots in the history of the game, honored by the NBA as the 19th greatest playoff moment of all time. The fact that it took place on an opposing team's floor also lends to its magic.
That's comparable to Gary Neal hitting a 3 to tie a game at home in order to send a game into over time so that instead of a #1 seed getting eliminated in 5 games in embarrassing fashion they get to suspend the humiliation for 1 more game?
Classic. Dumb homer morons who think this shouldn't be allowed to watch the game.
NBA loves laker loving and Spurs hating..
I pause or mute commercials anyway, regardless of what they are, so I don't have to hear that .
Lakers went on to win what that year?
I think the Neal shot was our .4. On the brink of playoff elimination and possibly an end of a great era Neals hits a buzzer beater.
It's charlie Murphy ...IIRC
Clark-duncan does do one of the commercials with the ball, but is a different one ...hence the confusion.
Meh. There's always gonna be a team on the receiving end of a great shot. That's, uh, ya know, just the way compe ive sports go.
And regardless of whether or not it led to anything significant, it was still a memorable shot, if not a devastating one. , "The Logo"'s legendary halfcourt heave only sent that Final's game into OT, and they actually eventually lost that game and the series. Doesn't mean it's not an impressive shot.
0.4 didn't help the Lakers win the le that year, did it? So for two "neck and neck" franchises that shot was pretty meaningless because the Spurs lost that series and the lakers lost convincingly to the Pistons and broke up their team that year.
Duncan's 3 ball against Phoenix had the same implications other than it not being a home game, but I don't see that comercial anywhere.
The problem with the commercial isn't the shot, but the way it illuminates spurs fans and our team in an extremely negative light.
Additionally, no other commercials that I have seen even feature the Spurs. The NBA does its best to make the Spurs out to be bad guys and boring.
Charlie Murphy!!!!
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I think the .4 is a really good commercial…It shows composure, preparation, heroics, desire, clutch and most of all Winning….
That commercial isn't about a great shot, it's about laughing at a deflated crowd. It's not at all surprising that it was produced, as the overwhelming majority of the people in that industry are Kobe fans, but it's surprising that the NBA approved it.
Exactly. I have yet to see the commercial for Jerry West's halfcourt shot. Magic's hookshot. Horry's 3ball against the Kings. Sean Elliott's memorial day miracle. Horry's game winner at Detroit.
The worst night to be a Spurs fan ever... I was shocked for a week after that.
It could prolly be in a little better taste, but I even chuckled at the "pffffff" sound at the end.
It's a painful memory, but marketing execs shouldn't be expected to assume Spur fan would still get this riled up about a shot that happened 7. years. ago.
It's time we get over it. Though, I will admit, seeing it right after Z-Bo's shot did seem a little TOO cruel. Terribly bad, yet coincidental timing.
we're "riled up" (in your opinion, I know I'm not) because they made an obviously distasteful commercial, not because of the shot.
Can you understand that?
I can understand that fans can be a little too sensitive when it comes to their team, sure.
Can you understand that?
I don't think this compares to game 7 of WCF when Manu fouled Dirk. That play kept us from another finals. Fish's shot...maybe/maybe not.
+1
I can barely recall that game. I had popped several Xanax pre-game just to be able to get through it. Struggled my way through a couple beers so as to seem as social as possible (we'd gotten a group together to watch it at my house), and then the last thing I remember was my slightly sympathetic Mav fan friend offering me an olive branch (disguised as an already lit bowl) directly after the game. And then things went black...
Woke up the next morning on my couch, dry-mouthed with "Spurs Suck" written on my forehead. I hate my friends sometimes...
Going through this thread is ing depressing......I lose all mental functioning when it's brought up
Can somebody please post the commercial so I can take another look & see what some of you are so upset about…From what I saw it was just “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat thing”…Isn't that what sports are all about?
A little too sensitive? If your team was intentionally targeted by the league and media, maybe you'd be the same.
Great points ...it lessens it for me ...a bit that they lost THAT year but not every great memorable shot leads to a le.
Mj's shot vs the Cavs ...i dont believe was a le year ...but i maybe wrong. I do know the scissors dribble highlights vs. the celts when MJ scored 63 ...they did not win. Neither did Dr.J's "rock the baby to sleep" or his amazing layup vs. landsberger did not lead to a le either.
If the NBA doesn't do multiple different commercials in the same vein, this is more than just questionable. It becomes outrageous.
Not only are the Spurs 4 time champions, they were the #1 seed in the West THIS YEAR.
Yet they get left out of every NBA commercial except the one that specifically highlights one of the lowest points in the franchise's entire history. Not only that, the shot will ALWAYS be questionable, an extra dig at spurs fans specifically (even the ones who "let it go", even though no TRUE fan ever will entirely).
Seeing Jordan's shot against the Cavs probably hurts their fans to see, but I've never seen the NBA do a commercial focusing on how much that shot hurt Cleveland fans and laughing about it. I guess Spurs fans could be flattered at how obviously in the head of Lakerfans the Spurs are, but forgive some of us for expecting more from the NBA than that.
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