Nick Wright

It is not, you know, career altering.

But it is, and it was, the type of play that if they don't win the finals, people will reference...

For years and years.

And until he wins a championship, and even if the other greatest players ever, their Tragic Johnson or LeBron in the 11 finals are any...

it'll be referenced even if he goes on to win three, four, five championships.

So Shaq won four rings.

People talk about the fact that he was swept a bunch.

People reference Kobe's air balls.

There are...

The only guy who the media collectively has decided not to reference any of his rough playoff moments before he won a title is Jordan.

It's nice for him.

I'm happy for him.

But that does not mean... You don't want to make the mistake and say that it's going to be a defining moment of his career rather than just the first giant gaffe as far as play of his career.

But where that moment at the end of Game 2 would have more resonance would be if it had looked like it affected him in Game 3.

Instead, the opposite was the case.

And Wimby coming out and doing what he did from the opening tip yesterday...

Against a team, by the way, that the last four times he had played, he was yet to put together a complete start-to-finish excellent game.

And even game one, he was not very good and was wildly inefficient.

Game two, he was horrible in the first half, then awesome until there were two minutes left, and then bad in the closing moments.

took a bad three, I thought had a rushed shot against Mitchell Robinson, had the, pardon me, turnover and foul, and then missed the game winner.