The Sacramento Kings pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in NBA history, eliminating an 18-point lead with five minutes remaining in their 98-97 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday.
Buddy Hield on Kings’ comeback vs. Clippers: ‘We saw they started chirping with each other’
Sacramento erased an 18-point Los Angeles lead with five minutes left in the fourth quarter.
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They were able to do so, says Buddy Hield, because they saw their opponents arguing with one another as they began chipping away at the lead.
“We saw they started chirping with each other and we were able to see them collapse,” Hield said via the Sacramento Bee’s Jason Jones.
The Kings trailed 94-78 with just 4:59 left in the fourth quarter. Up until that point, NBA teams were 359-0 this season with an 18-point lead with five minutes remaining and 6,747-1 all time, according to the Kings.
But the comeback effort started with Hield, who scored 11 of his 15 points (including 3 of 3 on threes) in the game’s last five minutes. And it was Willie Cauley-Stein, whose game-winning tip-in with less than two seconds left sealed the game for Sacramento.
You can’t see the Clippers arguing among each other on the film, but if what Hield says holds true, it was the undoing of a team that gave up a loss of historic proportions.
And if anything will stop the Clippers from bickering, it’ll be entering the history books for the wrong reasons.
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