With the game tied, and the noise at the First Union Center swelling in his ears, Ewing put a head fake on Theo Ratliff and spun toward the baseline to loft up a 13-foot fade-away jumper with 24.4 seconds left in the game.
While the absences of Johnson and Camby were obvious at the end -- normally, Jones wouldn't drive baseline without having to loft a shot over Camby's wingspan; normally, the 200-pound Houston wouldn't end up guarding a gruff 270-pounder like Anthony Mason at the end -- the Knicks did not finish the night complaining.
He slipped past Udonis Haslem, charged to the baseline, and lofted a high layup over the leaping Dwyane Wade, giving Dallas an 84-81 lead with 14.4 seconds left.
But with three seconds left, Dickerson took an inbounds pass from Dennis Scott, drove to the right baseline and lofted a shot over Harris's outstretched arms.
He drove the baseline and lofted a baby hook shot.
Crossing up his defender, Lue, on the right baseline, Iverson lofted a high-arching shot that drew only net and quieted the crowd.
And Anthony Carter, that tree stump of a point guard who was playing pickup games in Atlanta only five years ago, made a near-impossible shot along the right baseline, lofting a runner high enough to go over the backboard, hit the front of the rim and bounce in, a H-O-R-S-E shot for the victory.
Ron Rowan caught the ball on the right wing, dribbled once toward the baseline and lofted an off-balance floater — "It felt so pure," he later said — that dropped in without touching the rim.
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