Inches from Immortality: How Gordon Hayward and Butler Almost Toppled Duke 

He's got a second chance at immortality with the Celtics 🍀 Get you number into the rafters in Beantown and you'll never be forgotten 🏆

icecreamforcrowhurst Is crazy how He is getting the opportunity again with his college coach

Lmao he probably won a state champ or something at some point I mean he's in the nba. He's immortal.

He also has a immortal handshake

Lol jenkins won it at the buzzer and most people dont even care about him or even know him anymore

Gordon hayward avg 23 last season...shelvin mack his teammate on butler has been a solid nba backup for 5 years....and led them to the title game without hayward the next year ...if you have 2 nba player who play 5 years in the league then your not an underdog...stevens him self is a great nba coach...

Asmosis Jones that may be true but they were underdogs at the time

This year will be his biggest test! Managing all the veteran talent, mixed w/the young stars who believe they earned their spot, and respect during last year's playoff run. Finding the right mix, rotations, and which 5 guys play best together to start game, at end of quarters/half, coming out of the half, (1st 5 mins) in 4th quarter, & down the stretch. Who meshes, who gets selfish, who can't handle pressure, who shots when they should pass, who makes that pass, or hustle play that makes the difference. Who can't make free throws consistently in big games, who dissappear when lights are bright, but shines on the 2nd night of a back to back????? These are some of the many? 's Coach will be asking himself as year progresses. It will be hard, but I think his approach, team 1st mentality, and defense is a must policy, will lead the C's to a finals appearance at the very least! Truth is the East w/out LBJ, is soft and no one should stop the Celtics from being Eastern Conference Champs. Anything short of that will be dissapointing, and force Danny Ainges' hand to make serious moves in off season. Yet I think Danny & Coach think they have the team they wanted, w/all the players healthy. If Gordon Hayward gets back into form as Season goes on, he should become a force w/Kyrie, Al, Tatum, Brown, & rest of crew! I expect this teams last 20 games to be a complete 180 from their first 20. (Which weren't bad results wise, but the eye test told you they weren't where they needed to be) Excited for April, May, June & Let's go Celtics!!!

@@razkable .

It’s so funny that they’re together now

He looks like he hates himself for it

Hayward and the Jazz deserves their playoff spot, definitely more than the Rockets.

+William Mitchell They'll get it, but no chance they get out of the first round unfortunately

Joni Otto​ That is because GSW is an impressive basketball team, 72-9 (they just beat SAS). Go Dub Nation. 

+William Mitchell *cough* bandwagon

+Kolbe Perez 50 million would help

+Kolbe Perez Thats where you have to separate life from sport.

+Kolbe Perez but Wilt didn't that happen to you like a half dozen or so times?

You can see he is almost in tears in the video. I'm sure he has nightmares about it.

+Kolbe Perez life goes on

Blaque L

Blaque Brad Stevens played high school basketball with my dad in highschool no joke at Zionsville

GC Elite whats brads number

Zion williamson should join that team lol

hold the L

tru

But he couldn't be clutch

He clutch AF though

paduaowned lol

draft hit? lmao i see one player on that Duke team in the NBA rn and it's Singler, who could easily be a white boy from Butler.

bruh he got big over the time between college and nba

Just wish people would realize he's an All-Star

Shining Like 3M might be his yr if the jazz can make the playoffs

+Nicholas Christian barring injuries he is an all star.

he is an all star fr this season if not im going to be disappointed.

Indeed.

agreed

definitely

agreed

do you think a white basketball player can be a superstar in the NBA like LeBron, Kobe?

Faze Mateen Mateen Boston getting Gordon he might wanna play for his old coach

Heavy Rainer35 Thatd be amazing.

Faze Mateen Mateen if that happened against the cavs every lebron hater would bust in their pants.

Jay Heavyrainer21 you called that shit so hard

Jay Heavyrainer21 u my friend are from the futurw

The greatest pick ever set.

Eventually be one of the best untold stories

It took me until later in the week after the game to understand why Coach K had Zoubek miss that free throw on purpose, but it made absolute total sense. Both of his starting post players had 4 fouls, they hadn't made a shot from the field for nearly the last 5 minutes of the game, and if Butler tied it, I think he knew Butler would win it because of all of that momentum plus the cold streak Duke was in. He made up his mind that the national championship would be decided in regulation one way or the other because in that moment, he knew there was no way they could go another 5 minutes with literally everything that would be working against them.

zehzaunm you look like zaza shut up

zehzaun glitch happened didn't mean to reply to your comment 😊✌️

I feel bad for him because he missed an opportunity to make all the blood, sweat, and tears worth it to get to that point. I like him as a player, he's a young rising star that I hope that will continue to improve.

he needs to get the fuck outta Utah!

@@El.Nigga. Utah is looking pretty good now...

Adam Patterson lil

Adam Patterson HAHAHAHA

Adam Patterson hahahahahaha this funny as hell B

Adam Patterson Holy shit that was hilarious

me too #smalldickgang

Really? 4 years ago was he really known as a clutch player in the nba?

@@jstdun lmao fr

@@jstdun with the Jazz he was a beast

Mason Jackson true made a mediocre team to an almost championship team

Mercidi Nsiku They weren't really mediocre though. Gordon Hayward is a borderline NBA superstar and Shelvin Mack is a very good NBA role player

TheBDHShow true, but they did it again the next year without Hayward.

Henry Jackson brad stevens is still a great coach turned a mediocre Celtics ( last year) to conf. finals

did it again this year too

lol and here's a reminder about that 5 years later. that shit gon haunt you the rest of your life😞

yeah i dont think tht was a flop... game on line dude he was goin 100% tryna play d and got laid out

Jonny Love That Howard fool was big af and Single was sprinting as hard as he could, still funny tho lol

Singler*

Jonny Love lol that Howard guy destroyed him truly...white on white collision

he look like ricky from boyz n da hood

Bruce Wayne shelvin Mack is in the NBA on the the same team too

Mason Plumlee is kinda successful.

Bruce Wayne yeah by far

Alex Eastland he said most successful and Plumlee isn't even top 10 in centers in west lol

+Shane My comment wad in response to IAmZebra's where he said "yeah by far". Hayward is the most successful, but Plumlee is still a good player (I think he is top 10 in the west)

This is something my wife does not understand!

Enzo Kawabata fax

AZCardinals 4 Life too me I knew that he was going to miss

AZCardinals 4 Life U must have missed UNC vs Villanova

Mercidi Nsiku u sound dumb AF

Jack man - storyline and build up to Butler/Duke was way better than that game. David vs Goliath. Way more intriguing and entertaining than 2 powerhouse programs.

Jacob Taylor So that's best story not best game

:(

OMG HOBOBOB Bro Just imagine

He still would have been flying around the rim catching lobs and pissing off racist nba players. And they still would have taken him out.

Jon Cole more like a harden fan

Full speed game on the line face into a brick wall shoulder. No flop.

then he should have made those shots he missed when the game was on the line

dcbadooky128 deserving is not a thing in competition it's either you earn it or you don't

\/ibestr It would have been better if Butler won.

lol they are straight pussies if they keep talking about the past

dcbadooky128 y did they deserve to win

Says the Notre Dame fan????

***** yea, it was nice to see a fellow Indiana team make a nice run I was hoping they would pull it out

I'm Duke fan. I was loving life!

+JV 15 👊

Kranti Nebhwani gay

hahahaha funny as fuck man

Lame

Coach K the goat timothy

@@byMisfit didn’t say he isn’t a great coach

Who's Gordon Haywood?

Austin Full you're a savage lol

He's a good coach actually

+did Hami He's a phenomenal coach, top 3 in the NBA & is for sure a coach do the year candidate. Do you see what he's doing for the Celtics? That team has no more talent than the magic & they're competing for third in the east while the magic are in the bottom 5.

+did Hami great coach *

+Kevin Hate yeah he's definitely going to be one of the greatest coaches adding the fact that he's still young and can lead the Celtics to being a top team in the east for the future

Pop is the best but Stevens will be in about 5 years, great basketball mind

And now they r together in Boston

2010 was definitely not their best team but they managed to find a way to win. Great game though.

dy120481 or the ridiculous calls Butler got. They went both ways. Just get over it and accept that Duke won.

@@crawfish19 That was probably the most physical championship game I've seen. I mean, I remember one play where Hayward hip checked a Duke player in mid-air going for a rebound and nothing was called. That was an absolute war out there, which made for a great game. It was a game where however that shot ended, the beneficiary of that shot making or missing deserved to win the game

Stfu

+Unc Basketball unc players need to flop to real classes

+Peyton Hammond L

+Unc Basketball fr

I don't know man singlet ran right into that big boy

Nath Anter well....

well..

NemoTheFish me too

Nemo_123o you must be 10 years old

Man I’m still so sad about this and the fact the next year without him butler made it all the way back to the final and most again .. 2 amazing ribs