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#8 Jerry West's steal and winning layup
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The beginning of the greatest rivalry in NBA history. The Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers met in the 1962 NBA Finals, the first of six Finals encounters to come in the 60s.
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In Game 3, with the series tied at one game apiece, the game was tied 115-115 with 3 seconds remaining as Boston prepared to inbound the ball. A Celtics win would help them regain home-court advantage as the Lakers won Game 2 in Boston, but West made a big play.
As Sam Jones inbounded the ball, West poked it and sped away to score the game-winning layup at the buzzer. The joy wouldn't last long, as the Celtics won game 4 and eventually the series 4-3. This West play was perhaps one of the few great late moments that the Lakers had against the Celtics back then, as they kept getting beaten by them in the Finals.
They would lose all 6 of the Finals and suffer late heartbreak in almost all of them.
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