I was surprised Miami didn’t put their starters back on the floor for that inbound pass. You hit a3, and it’s only a 6 point game with over a minute to go.
Bam, the only starter on the floor, missed a 15 foot jumper and that pretty much sealed the loss.
R: “You’ve got the momentum. How are you going to keep it?”
J: “Just win the next one.”
He really is the Joker.
“How long have you been a black quarterback?”
“Umm, all my life?”
The quality of the answers depends on the quality of the questions.
(But, Snopes said this is false, nobody asked Doug Williams that question in 1988 before Super Bowl XXII:
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Denver put on another show last night. If they keep taking their foot off the gas in the fourth quarter, I’d say they’ll be in trouble, but it’s pretty clear this Miami team has punched well above it’s weight this postseason, and they’re just out of gas. Going through the Bucks and the Celtics was phenomenal to watch, but it’s pretty obvious the difference between these two teams. The Nuggets haven’t even had a GREAT game all Finals - Porter Jr. is shooting <14% from three, 38% overall. Caldwell-Pope, 29% and 33% respectively.
Jokic has shown he is the guy, and Murray and Gordon are both playing fantastically. On the Heat side, Adebayo is doing everything he can to hold the team together, but Butler’s too hurt. He has the worst +/- in the series, and it’s a combination of his ankle injury, the referees swallowing their whistles (except fixer Scott Foster), and fatigue. The guy left everything out there to get the team to the Finals, but there’s just not enough other players on the Heat for him to have recovered.
Stick a fork in ‘em.
Jokic, after Game 4:
“It’s still one win. We need to win one more.”
The Denver Nuggets are at home tonight for game 5. A perfect way to win your first championship.
[per Wiki] After the name change (from Denver Rockets), the Nuggets played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976, losing to the New York Nets.
They have never won it all.
The Nuggets would be the second of the four former ABA teams to have won an NBA title as well; the Nets and Pacers have lost every time they have been in the NBA Finals.
That was a fun game to watch, and the refs definitely let them play tonight.
Congrats to the Nuggets. Definitely the best team this season.
The Nuggets looked hard to beat. The Heat tried but had trouble containing Jokic for four quarters. Congratulations. Denver.
Another pearl of wisdom from Finals MVP Nikola Jokic:
“Job is done, we can go home now.”
That was a really good game to watch. The Heat brought their street fighters, as did the Nuggets, and it was a close street fight for all but the final minute or two. A veritable street brawl between them.
The Heat boxed above their weight class the entire postseason, but in the end the heavyweight Denver Nuggets were just too much for the bantamweight Miami Heat.
Congratulations to Denver! They seem to truly epitomize the word ‘Team’ very well. I did not follow them the entire season, but they indeed were truly a team in the best sense of that word in these finals.
Congratulations also to Miami. The bantamweight fighter in them was gritty and determined. They ought to hold their heads up high this off-season.
Jokic: “I’m just happy that we won the game.”
“What day is parade?”
“Thursday.”
“No. I’ve got to get home.”
That last three minutes was a nail-biter.
Butler’s giveaway near the end, there. 
I saw it. I’m sure he is a fine player, but that is one of those moments they re-visit over and over in the future.
Let’s just say I still have flashbacks to Chris Weber calling timeout 30+ years ago.
I remember that time out call too.
In NBA finals history is there a gaffe akin to Bill Buckner’s error in the ‘86 World Series? I don’t think Butler’s turnover ranks up with that.
Whoa goodness it sure doesn’t rank with Buckner’s.
Heh, how about Steve Smith’s?
/derail 
ETA - (bloody discourse won’t let me edit previous effing post)
I realise you were looking for a bball example, and to that, I’m stymied, and am quite curious if anyone can come up anything.
No, and this definitely wasn’t that bad. I mean, it was just something that happens in basketball pretty often and wasn’t egregious.