Leading this serie 2 - 1, the Sacramento Kings have a chance to beat this two-time champions team, by playing a really well basketball game. But at the forum a scenario is never written, even when you never lead during a game.
I was working as a bus boy at a sports bar in San Diego and remember watching this when it happened. The entire bar LOST it!!! Great memories. Thank you Rob.
One of the great NBA playoff series of all time! The intensity of games 4-7 was high-octane! Horry's shot saved the series and the Lakers showed up big-time in Gms 5 & 7!
This game brings back great memories!!! When Horry hit this shot me n my Pops went absolutely NUTS!!! It lowkey was a great bond moment between father and son.
Even watching this 22yrs later I remembered how I destroyed my voice box. I was so pumped and scary my wife left this house for 30mins...lol My beloved Lakers Magic, Ceballos, Eddie Jones, Kobe and my all time Shaq and Chick Hearn Today I have no clue who's playing
everytime these lakers got in a hole in tight games, you can see how good their defence got. Everyone was more active, faster, and challenged shots better. They could turn it on when needed.
The forgotten part about this game is how Samaki Walker's three at the half should've never counted. Ball was still in his hands at 0:00. There was no replay review that season (that changed shortly after). Imagine if that three never counted. Maybe no game 6 which.........
forgotten my ass lol. everyone, especially laker haters, always bring this up. so the lakers are down another 3 going into the second half; so what? they would have played as if they were down 3 more points. they were already playing desperation basketball the entire 2nd half while the kings started play not to lose instead of to win. kings shouldve won this game easy tbh
My whole apartment in Van Nuys erupted after Horry hit this 3! And then everyone was running outside cheering and hi fives all around! Damn good ol days
@@xaviervega468 Or one of the Kings' players should've guarded the three-point line to grab Vlade's slap. All five Kings' players were in the paint and nobody guarded Robert Horry.
@@xaviervega468 I think he was trying to do what he saw Magic Johnson do in Game 7 of the WCF in 1991 vs the Blazers. Magic threw the ball across the court and ran the clock down to nearly zero. It was a brilliant defensive play that won the game and the series. Unfortunately, Vlade is no Magic. 😆
Everyone talks about the final sequence, but it’s the missed free throw that made the game-winner possible. Why did Divac (62% FT%) have the ball instead of Peja (88%), Christie (85%), or Bibby (80%) when the Lakers had to foul!?!?
because the Kings were a beast of a team, but they didn't have 2 of the best player on the planet so there was no clear alpha to kick the ball too. They did the right thing and passed it around the outside forcing Shaq to come out to try and foul
This game spawned the 'Samaki Walker rule' and for a decade it was a Wikipedia entry until it wasn't. One NBA owner in Texas pushed this review rule through even though the NBA would rather no one look at the expired halftime clock where the ball is still in Walker's hand with 0:00 on the clock.
Nothing compares to this game... but the regular season game the following year where Lakers came back to beat Dallas down by 30 or something like that in the 4th quarter was also unbelievably great too.
@@regulator674 Audacity ain't the word the thing is LBJ tries tooooo tooooo hard to be these guys from this era which is ridiculously absurd no two ways about it. He ain't never gonna be no MJ or Kobe ( RIP Mamba) now that's the real crime 😂.
On the final play of Game 4. 17:48 First mistake by the Kings: Kobe Bryant penetrating past Doug Christie to the basket and saw Chris Webber pinching into the paint. 17:52 Grab the rebound with two hands Vlade Divac. Instead, he slapped the ball to Robert Horry who was waiting at the three-point line and nobody guarding him. 17:53 C-Webb: Oh shit! I left Big Shot Rob open. Webber got there too late and Horry got a great look to nail his patented playoff game-winning daggers. That's the same mistake Rasheed Wallace did in Game 5 of the 2005 NBA Finals when Horry was a Spur against the Pistons.
@@deadringer2349 So, it was the refs who blew a 24-point lead and failed to grab one rebound on the final play of Game 4. It was the referees who fouled and gave the Lakers 40 free throw attempts and saw the Lakers made 34 of them in Game 6. It was the refs who went 16 of 30 from the free throw line and 2 of 20 from downtown in Game 7. Nope, it was the Sacramento Kings themselves. Keep being a sour grapes crybaby.
Imagine if shaq was as good as Robert Horry! He wouldn't of had to skirt tail himself to championships. Thank you Kobe, Dwane for putting this clown on the map!!
Doug Christie shoots a unneeded 3, and a contested 1 handed runner, Bobby Jackson and Mike Bibby missing critical 3s, Hedo dancing in the 1st half and joking laughing with Chris Webber. Bringing in Speedy Claxton at the wrong time, Semeke Walker hitting a 3 at the buzzer before the half to bring the lead to 24, Pedrag not Peja not hitting 3s and not getting the ball in the inbound when Lakers fouled Vlade bc he is a 60% ft shooter and Chris Webber shooting a shot with 1 second to go on the shot clock and Shaq blocking that ball in the 6th or 7th row while still in the air. 3 fouls were called on Scott Pollard that made me scratch my head and 3 fouls were called bc Shaq was too dominant and Vlade Divac is the original flopper.
@@beyoncebillings6625 2003 was a better chance for the Sacramento Kings with a better defense and deeper team than in 2002 until Chris Webber injured his knee against the Dallas Mavericks.
@@2002films please. Anytime someone gets a slight advantage homecourt or whatever people start complaining. If ur gonna bring up any bad calls their were many that went both ways. Kings had Game 7 at their place and choked it.
@@joesakic91 Game 4 and 7 I agree. Game 6 was a screwjob. There was no way the refs were letting the Kings close the series out. Without the refs the Lakers lose game 6. Full stop, end of story.
People can talk about Games and 6 and 7 of the 2002 WCF all they want, but this game is arguably the killer for Rick Adelman and the Sacramento Kings. Either win the race to 100 points or grab one rebound on the final play and win Game 4 and go up 3-1. The Kings did neither and lost Games 4, 6, and 7 and the 2002 WCF altogether to the Lakers.
Lol on Duncan’s and KG’s level even tho Webber was known for choking in clutch plays throughout his career. KG and Duncan end up killing the same Lakers team in the 2003 playoffs. They raised their level of play vs them unlike Webber.
@@Theterminato2013 KG killed the Lakers in 2003? No he didn't..KG never got outta the first around until he had Sam Cassell & Spree & that was just one season. Then he wins a chip on a superteam, albeit only one when that team should've won more
Your hating tears are so delicious! Can I have some more please? 20 years later, the Kings completed a snakebitten hat trick while the Lakers tack on three more titles in 2009, 2010, and 2020.
