PHILADELPHIA (AP) Evan Turner tossed up a high, arching shot and then watched the ball bounce around the rim, almost in slow motion.
«It felt like 150 times,» Turner said.
Try three. Turner’s final shot took some hops before it dropped through the net for the winner at the buzzer, and he scored 29 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 121-120, overtime win over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night.
«I got a lucky couple of rolls,» Turner said. «The basketball gods looked out for me.»
Paul Pierce, playing like his All-Star days in Boston, had put the Nets up 120-119 on a 3-pointer with 16.9 seconds to go in OT for the short-lived lead.
Turner took a dribble-handoff from Spencer Hawes at the top of the key, and turned the corner to his left past Shaun Livingston. He drove into the low post and shot the one-hander over Pierce and Brook Lopez. Once, twice, three times the ball knocked around the rim before the Sixers could celebrate.
After a brief review, the bucket stood, Turner was mobbed by his teammates and the Sixers snapped a seven-game losing streak.
«We needed to get that win for the sanity of the group, keeping our group together, holding hope,» coach Brett Brown said, «and for those reasons as that ball is hanging on a rim and then decides to fall in, for us, given where we are, that is an important win.»
Turner was sensational all game, hitting his first eight shots (13 of 22 overall) and he had 10 rebounds for his sixth double-double this season.
Thaddeus Young scored 25 points for the Sixers, and Michael Carter-Williams had 15 points and 10 assists.
Alan Anderson had a season-high 26 points for the Nets, Pierce scored 24 with 10 rebounds, and Deron Williams had 17 points and 14 assists.
Brooklyn grabbed a 115-113 lead early in OT after Turner and Pierce swapped 3-pointers. Carter-Williams hit two free throws for a 116-115 lead, then had the assist to Young in front of Brooklyn’s bench on a 3-pointer with 2:02 left.
The 76ers missed three shots on the same possession, setting up Pierce’s clutch 3, Brooklyn’s 15th of the game.
Turned out, the Sixers had one last dramatic shot of their own. Turner’s 13th basket of the game was his biggest of the season, and he was mobbed on the court by a Sixers team buried well below .500.
«I was just thinking of my reaction if it didn’t go in, who I was going to punch,» Turner said.
Brooklyn Nets triunfa sobre Philadelphia 76ers
