Video: Andre Iguodala and 'the greatest fast break that never happened'
The best play of the 2016-17 NBA season didn’t count.
Toronto may technically own the league’s top offense, averaging 114.1 points per 100 possessions, but with 9:36 remaining in a game against the Raptors that was already well in hand, the Warriors demonstrated precisely why the NBA’s most feared scoring machine still resides in Golden State.
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Warriors wing Klay Thompson started it with a block of Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry that was corralled by Golden State’s Kevin Durant, who made a swift spinning outlet pass to teammate Andre Iguodala as he fell to the ground. Toronto’s Cory Joseph was whistled for a questionable call, which worked out just as well for the Raptors, if only because it prevented an easy basket on the other end.
Except, that basket wasn’t anything but easy. After the whistle, Iguodala jumped in the air, put the ball between his legs, around his back and alley-ooped it to an awaiting Shaun Livingston for the dunk.
Seriously, watch this:
As the events unfolded, the announcers dubbed it “the greatest fast break that never happened.”
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It was a sequence you might see practiced at a Harlem Globetrotters game, Rucker Park or the AND1 Mixtape Tour, and yet the Warriors pulled it off randomly with the relative ease of a layup drill. Of course, the NBA features the best basketball players in the world, and in a few short seconds the Warriors were happy to remind us all of the fact they have a handful of them, even as they were working after a whistle.
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