Cavs' legacies, futures of James Harden, Donovan Mitchell may have all changed with one bounce
It's hard to fathom how crucial this might've been.
Cavs' legacies, futures of James Harden, Donovan Mitchell may have all changed with one bounce originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . As that basketball hung in the air, so too hung in the balance so many futures and legacies.
RJ Barrett's overtime shot, dropping back to earth, could've missed. It could've let James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley and the Cleveland Cavaliers off the hook. It could've avoided becoming yet another "the" fill-in-the-blank in Cleveland sports history.
But then it went in. It was "the bounce. " And it may have changed everything.
The difference about this shot for the Cavs is that there's another game. It was Game 6. The Cavs entered the night leading the series 3-2.