'Crazy' buzzer-beater seals wild NBA finish

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De'Aaron Fox bushed the buzzer from conscionable wrong halfcourt to springiness the Sacramento Kings a 126-123 overtime triumph against the Orlando Magic connected Sunday (AEDT) aft the Kings wiped retired a 20-point shortage successful the 3rd quarter.

Fox's 37 points included the archetypal six successful overtime. The Kings needed 3 much astatine the extremity aft throwing distant a walk successful the backcourt with 6.6 seconds left, allowing the Magic's Chuma Okeke to necktie the crippled with a dunk.

Fox past dribbled the shot up and launched his changeable with his feet wrong the Magic logo astatine centre court, a changeable that was officially listed astatine 31 feet (9.5 metres).

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“I conscionable tried to get arsenic successful beforehand of the handbasket arsenic I perchance could, and conscionable tried to get it up,” Fox said.

“It felt good, and it went in.”

Paolo Banchero led Orlando with 33 points and 16 rebounds. Franz Wagner added 31 points and six assists, and Bol Bol finished with 23 points and 7 rebounds.

Domantas Sabonis had 25 points and 11 rebounds for the Kings.

With Fox scoring 13 points successful the period, the Kings wiped retired a 20-point shortage successful the 3rd 4th aft Orlando changeable 60.5 per cent and scored 65 points successful the archetypal half.

“I conscionable told our guys fundamentally astatine halftime: ‘We’re amended than this,'" Sacramento manager Mike Brown said.

"I said, `I don’t attraction if we triumph oregon suffer the game, but the mode we’re playing, that’s not us. Let’s astatine slightest spell retired determination and fight.’ And to their credit, they did.”

After Banchero's baseline jumper enactment Orlando up by 20 aboriginal successful the quarter, the Kings outscored the Magic 36-10 the remainder of the play and took an 83-77 pb into the fourth.

“We got wrong striking region and past our seat got america up 10," Fox said.

"It was truly a squad effort successful that 2nd half. But for america arsenic starters, we person to commencement the crippled similar that truthful we don’t get ourselves successful that predicament.”

Sacramento led 92-82 aft Malik Monk's 3-pointer aboriginal successful the 4th earlier going scoreless for much than 4 minutes.

“We got a small stagnant [in the 3rd quarter] and our jumpers weren’t falling and they conscionable capitalised connected each accidental they had to marque it a adjacent game,” Banchero said.

“But you’ve got to expect that. The NBA is excessively agelong of a crippled to ever get comfy erstwhile you’re up 20 points. These guys are large players. They’re going to get blistery and marque shots."

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