After the Game:
Divac said: "That's lucky shot, that's all,You don't need skill in that situation. You throw it, it goes in, it goes in."
Chris Webber said: "It is something I would have done," he said of the tap from Divacc. "It was something we all would have done."
Rob Horry's reply: "If you go back and look at the shot, a luck shot is one of those guys who has no form .If you look at the shot, it was straight form. He shouldn't have tipped it out there. It wasn't a luck shot. I have been doing that for all my career. He should know. He should read the paper or something."
A simple tap.
Vlade Divac has been waiting 13 years for such a simple tap, through seven years with the Lakers, two with the Charlotte Hornets and four with the Sacramento Kings.
He joined the Lakers for the 1989-90 season, hoping to follow in the giant steps of the just-retired Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, hoping to win an NBA title alongside Magic Johnson and James Worthy and the rest of the remaining Showtime cast.
Wrong place, wrong time.
In the stunned King locker room afterward, Divac tried to boost his teammates' spirits.
"I told the guys they should feel good," Divac said. "A basketball game should be decided on a last-second shot."
But Divac didn't feel good. Not even when Laker owner Jerry Buss, encountering Divac outside the locker room, told him he thought it was the best game Divac had ever played.
**Trying to make his way to the interview area, Divac instead accidentally walked into the Laker locker room.
Same old story for Divac, wrong place, wrong time.**
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