No one will ever forget Ray Allen’s clutch shot in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals but that iconic moment could have belonged to someone else.
Mario Chalmers was wide open on the other side and he stated that he’d have made the shot if the ball was passed to him.
“I was wide open. I wanted the shot…I would’ve definitely made it… would’ve been all net,” Chalmers said.
“I was wide open. I wanted the shot…I would’ve definitely made it… would’ve been all net”
– Mario Chalmers on Game 6 of the 2013 Finals
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Chalmers had hit some big clutch shots over the years, including one memorable game-tying three-pointer in the closing stages of the 2008 NCAA championship game. He certainly wasn’t someone who came up short in the big moments and had 20 points in the game at that point as well, but he was unlikely to ever get the ball there.
Allen was regarded as the greatest shooter ever before Stephen Curry took that title from him, and there was no one else on the Miami Heat that you’d have wanted to take that shot. LeBron James, who had missed the three-pointer which Chris Bosh rebounded, was open as well and called for the ball but didn’t get it either. Both men couldn’t have been too upset that they didn’t get the ball, as Allen drilled it to tie the game at 95 and the Heat would win 103-100 in overtime.
Ray Allen Thought He Was Going To Miss The Shot
As for Allen himself, he once stated that he thought the shot wasn’t going to go in. When the ball left his fingertips, he said it floated differently than at any other point in his career and it felt low. Fortunately for both him and the Heat, it went in and they wouldn’t look back from that point.
The Heat would go on to win Game 7 95-88 to make it back-to-back titles. Would it have worked out that way if Chalmers was the one who got to take the shot? We’ll never know but you certainly can’t blame him for thinking he’d have made it after all the big shots he connected on during his career.
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