These are some of the most memorable game-losing plays in NBA history, from missed game winners to boneheaded plays! Business Inquiries: mcosh3@gmail.com
The fact I ain’t never seen MJ get the ball stolen and fall on the ground to lose the game as well as Kobe’s 4 air balls in a row shows their PR teams worked OVERTIME to conceal them clips 😭
Well when u win enough and have enough great moments, ppl can forget the bad times since u made up for them. Kobe missed tons of game winners, but he hit alot and most importantly he hit them in dramatic fashion.
That Nick Anderson one is so painful to watch. Dude literally had to go 1/4 to ice the game. Heart always breaks for him no matter how many times I see it.
@@Greegocame here to say this. After seeing the 30 for 30, I've always felt bad for Nick Anderson. The aftermath of those 4 shots really messed up the remainder of his career to the point he didn't even want to shoot.
Fun Fact: In the game where Brandon Knight missed the wide open layup to win, he hit the tying 3 in 2OT to send it to a 3rd overtime period, and the Bucks ended up winning.
What happened with the timekeeper in that game? Clock stops at 0.7 sec for no apparent reason. Did Jordan trick the timekeeper? Did he assume there must have been a reason Jordan just stopped?
@@michaellee4276i think it was a malfunction, because ordinarily the clock stops on a shot clock violation... Even though it hit the rim and the clock should have kept running
Eh, it was the conference semi-finals, still had to go through Shaq and Penny and then Hakeem. They blew their 3-2 lead against Houston the year before, that was when they were the closest.
@@selassieaspen9940 Not sure what you mean? Shaq only won one MVP, in L.A., in the 1999-00 season. In Orlando, he played in the finals against the Rockets in 1994-95. If you meant Hakeem, he won the MVP in 1993-94, the season when Rockets met Ewing and the Knicks in the finals and won.
If he makes that layup, Game 7 goes to overtime. Do the Knicks win that overtime? I have no idea. The Pacers had outplayed them in that game up until that point. If they win the overtime, they go up against Shaq and Penny. And the Magic have home court advantage. During that regular season, the home team won all 5 matchups. So the Knicks had not won in the O-rena once yet. Orlando was a better team that year. Indiana took them to 7 with the home team winning all 7 games, and maybe the Knicks do the same, but I don't see the Knicks winning that series either.
Fr because everybody knew that the lebron had no chance of beating that warriors team while if andreson made just one free throw the magic might have won the championship
Ehhhh idk, missing free throws just happens, it def had bigger magnitude but it wasnt really a braindead mistake or anything, but cant say the same for Smith
People make those four missed free throws by Anderson to be a bigger deal than it actually was. Even if the Magic had won that game had he made the shots, they still had no virtually no chance to beat the Rockets in the Finals. Houston was the far superior team: they had the experience (they won it all the the year before) and they had seasoned veterans who were used to the pressure of winning. The Magic were the best of the worst that was the Eastern Conference, which stunk at the time.
The only way you could even become as great as MJ, Kobe, or Lebron is to make a ton of mistakes....and learn from them. Idiots don't learn from their mistakes. Smart people do. Brilliant people not only learn from their own mistakes but from other's mistakes too.
not really if you're educated. its a normal word, means not interfered with or disturbed and is pretty much never used to describe anything to do with S.A.
“Tragic plays”, that’s what this video should have been named. Instead it’s called “game losing plays”, even though half of the clips result in going into OT.
The annoyance in the announcers voices when Valentine made that terrible 3-point shot that missed handily never ceases to make me laugh. These are some hilarious miscues and fails and whatnot too, a couple heartbreaking ones as well.
Brandon Knight was a fine player but between the missed layup buzzer beater, getting cooked by Kyrie at the All-Star game, and being on the wrong end of one of the most iconic posters in NBA history, that man had some bad luck.
The only possibility I can think of is: Draymond thought he would get fouled right away when the defender came to him without having a chance to pass the ball to Steph, so might as well shot the 3s and had a chance to get 4 points play.
@@Diablo-rd4ow👎 No! It's fuckin Stupid. 5 seconds you give Curry the damn ball! Why would I let Draymond attempt 3 free throws anyway? When you have greatest Free throws shooter of all time on the courtright next to you! 😂
I've always had respect for Nick Anderson. After the Magic got swept he was the first person on the microphone to accept responsibility and say it all might have gone completely different if he had made one of those four free throws. He never tried to deflect the blame elsewhere for the team losing momentum. It's a shame nearly 30 years later that is still the most important moment in the history of that franchise.
Add in all the ones where they need 3, and they go for a 2. I had to pause to collect my emotions. This collection of clips hurts me. At least the Valentine one was early on. Think that'd kill me if it was the last one.
I was familiar with pretty much all of these, but halfway through I was still thinking “that’s got to be the worst one, how can it get any worse than that?”
This video was NOT long enough. You really threw some classics in there, though: Jordan getting stripped by Nick Anderson, only for him to go on to miss 4 consecutive FTs, Kobe's 4 consecutive missed shots, Brandon Knight's missed layup in Brooklyn, and that 1 guy who stupidly threw up the ball only for the opposing team to catch it and tie it up with a 3 - which I've always thought was the dumbest of all plays like it.
It wasn’t stupid to throw the ball in the air. Many players do this so the timer can run out while no one can touch the ball. The problem was he didn’t throw it high or far enough.
@@traxagenda3445 A. Not a Kobe fan. B. It was his last game in the NBA. I’m sure the last thing that was on his mind was “well I better be efficient so that the contrarians don’t have ammunition against me”. You Kobe haters need to touch grass.
@@traxagenda3445 no. You’re genuinely being a hater. He was having a terrible season after 19 years of wear and tear were finally taking a toll on his legs. He finished almost every game with terrible shooting performances and their team was not making it to the playoffs. It was one of the only times Kobe had scored so low in his career, and he just didn’t look like himself at that point. I think scoring 60 in his last game despite all of that especially the way he went off in the 4th quarter especially in a game that they were not expecting to win warranted some respect. You’re just being contrarian because of the mass support and enthusiasm for the performance, you’re finding some way to say “well actually it’s not that impressive you casuals” to sound like you know basketball, but for one game we weren’t overly concerned with efficiency, just the narrative behind a still impressive performance, even with the lack of efficiency with proper context. Get over yourself.
0:46 Probably my favorite worst play of all time. Bro takes the ball under the basket, travels a mile and a half, passes it back out only for his teammates to miss their 4 shot attempts, 3 being easy put backs. The fact there’s 8 minutes left in the video scares me
I'll not forget the Grant Williams v Celtics one... as I needed Jarrett Allen to get one more rebound for a bet in that game, and him missing the second free got him exactly that. :P
The play by Nick Anderson on Jordan....knowing how it unfolds later in the playoffs. Man it felt like that Orlando team was destined, not just that year but like the next 5-10 with Shaq and Penny leading the way. It's crazy how that all unfolded, and you could point to Nick Anderson missing those FT against the Rockets as the turning point. And Jordan fucking decimating them next year...because you know he took that steal by Anderson and them carrying Horace off the court personally.
As a slightly old head millennial, the older ones that made me sad were Ewing’s missed layup and Harper having a JR Smith brain fart. I forgot the layup was a game 7 like ugh, damn. I was too young to see the Harper play live but I remember reading about the Mavs giving the 80’s Lakers fits. They wound up losing that series in 88 in 7 games. Harper, Aguirre, Rolando Blackman, the real Perk Sam I Am,young Tarpley, young Detlef, big James Donaldson. Underrated squad.
I remember watching the video where Kobe was talking about those 4 air balls, he said when he flew back to L.A, he got to the gym at 3 a.m and shot literally ALL DAY
Damn near shed tears seeing kobe airball 4 shots in a row and then seeing shaq talk to him because we know the absolute determination he showed after that to never let it happen again 🥹
I still remember watching that bucks nets game in my room and seeing brandon knight miss that layup to win the game. man i was devestated. my best friends favorite team is the nets so it made it 10x worse lol. those days being a bucks fan was the most fun. the team was capable of winning any game but seemed to always fall short in the 4th quarter., that was the fun in watching them. seeing if they would scrape by or fail
Like Anderson said, 45 isn't 23. Funny that he's the one who said that, then proceeded to miss 4 FTs in a row in the finals that same year and cost them the game lol.
@davidschmidt1793 Doesnt matter what number he was wearing you can find moments like these in his career where he missed big shots or misplayed in crunch time. Im only saying this because there are a lot of people out there that act as if jordan never missed shots in the clutch or was perfect all the time and never made bad plays in crunch time. And im not a jordan hater i think he is the goat but i dont think it is as definitive as people think. I think you can make a case for others being the goat as well
@@Mike-hy8cs Every single player missed shots in the clutch, including MJ. I'm not trying to say he was perfect. In my opinion, that Magic series was the worst in his career. He obviously wasn't himself and seemed nervous in the clutch in that game. Anderson didn't say 45 wasn't 23 for no reason. I had never seen Jordan act like that in the clutch. The video doesn't show, the entire sequence, but he not only gets the ball stripped, in the next play he turns it over trying to pass to Pippen and they lose the game.
@@andrew_l1900 Honestly, I think everyone knows about that series, mainly after 'The last dance'. That was the series he came back and lost to Shaq's Orlando Magic. He screwed up big time.
i think draymond's play actually made a lot of sense. yes he should've passed it to steph, but the instant game winning play for the opposing team is to foul draymond in that situation. it was actually really heads up for him to anticipate that and try to get a shot off so he could get 3 free throws instead of 2.
yeah he did the smart thing and it happened to be the one time the other team did the dumb thing, which made him look dumb. It's like the old adage: "You can't know what they're doing, if they don't know what they're doing."
@@verde7595No you imbeciles, Wtf Would I let him attempt free throws when he can't make ten points a night. ESPECIALLY, when you have the greatest free throw shooter and 3PT shooter on your team right next to you. He had time to spare.
That Jazz-Nuggets ending is super crazy because it should have been called out of bounds against Martin when he touched the ball after Kirilenko stole it. (It's the reason he missed the layup.)
