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Garfield (Gar) Heard, (born May 3, 1948 in Hogansville, Georgia) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at the University of Oklahoma, and was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 3rd round of the 1970 NBA Draft. He had an eleven-year NBA career for four different teams (the Sonics, the Buffalo Braves/San Diego Clippers, the Chicago Bulls, and the Phoenix Suns). Heard is probably best known for a buzzer beater he made to send Game 5 of the Phoenix-Boston championship series in 1976 into a third overtime, a feat which is commonly known as "The Shot", or "The Shot Heard 'round the World" in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem during the American Revolutionary War. May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ...
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Hogansville is a city located in Troup County, Georgia. ...
Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ...
The University of Oklahoma, often called OU or Oklahoma, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. ...
The Seattle SuperSonics (or simply Sonics or Supes) are a professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington. ...
See also: List of NBA Drafts Round 1 Round 2 External links 1970 NBA Draft at basketballreference. ...
The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. ...
The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. ...
In basketball, a buzzer beater is a shot taken just before the game clock of a quarter or overtime period expires, when the buzzer sounds and the backboard lights up. ...
The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. ...
The Boston Celtics are a professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
The Shot
With 2 seconds remaining in double overtime, John Havlicek had given Boston a one-point advantage with a running one-handed shot. The Celtics' timekeeper then ran the clock out instead of stopping it after a made basket per league rules. The Boston Garden crowd erupted, believing the game was over, and the Celtics themselves actually went back to their locker room. Urban legends have stated that Havilcek had actually taken the tape off his ankles by this stage. But the Suns correctly pointed that there was still time left, though the officials only placed 1 second back on the clock instead of 2. (Celtics fans had stormed the court after the time was erroneously allowed to expire, and one particularly boisterous fan attacked referee Richie Powers after it was announced that the game was actually not over yet.) Paul Westphal then intentionally took a technical foul by calling a timeout when the Suns had no more timeouts to use. It gave the Celtics a free throw, which Jo Jo White converted to give Boston a two-point edge, but the timeout allowed Phoenix to inbound from mid-court instead of from under their own basket. John J. Havlicek (born April 8, 1940 in Martins Ferry, Ohio) is an American former professional basketball player who competed for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA titles, half of them coming in his first four seasons. ...
Boston Garden ISBN:0738511528 The Boston Garden was an arena built in 1928 and demolished in 1998 after the completion of its new successor arena, the FleetCenter, now called TD Banknorth Garden. ...
Richie Powers orders one second to be placed on the game clock during the second overtime of Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals. ...
Paul Westphal (born November 30, 1950 in Torrance, California) is a former basketball player and coach in the NBA. A native of California, Westphal has had a storied career in the NBA, both as a player and as a head coach. ...
In basketball, a technical foul is an infraction of the rules usually concerning unsportsmanlike non-contact behavior. ...
JoJo White (born November 16, 1946) was an American professional basketball player. ...
A revision to Rule 12-A, Section I, in regards to excessive timeouts, resulted eliminating the permission to advance the ball following such an excessive timeout. The rule has since been changed to award the ball to the team shooting the free throw.
When play resumed, Heard caught the inbound pass and fired a very high-arcing turnaround jump shot from at least 20 feet away. It swished through, sending the game into a third overtime. However, Boston eventually won the game, then the Finals, 4 wins to 2. David Robinson performing a jump shot to shoot over Karl Malone. ...
Coaching In addition to his playing career, Heard served as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks from 1993 to 1994 and the Washington Wizards from 1999 to 2000. During the 2004-2005 season, Heard was an assistant coach with the Detroit Pistons; he coached several games that season when Larry Brown was out due to a medical condition. The Dallas Mavericks (also known as the Mavs) are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
The Washington Wizards is a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C.. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
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The 2004-05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). ...
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Larry Brown For other people of the same name, see Larry Brown (disambiguation). ...
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