{"id":95,"date":"2023-03-15T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/?p=95"},"modified":"2023-03-17T20:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:06:49","slug":"kawhi-is-torontos-third-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/kawhi-is-torontos-third-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi is Toronto\u2019s Third Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night Kawhi did what every kid dreams about \u2013 he hit a buzzer beater in the deciding game so his team could win it.\u00a0 \u00a0It is rare.\u00a0 \u00a0Kawhi\u2019s buzzer beater was the first in a game 7 in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>However, Toronto sports fans are blessed.\u00a0 \u00a0Twice previously in the last 30 years, we\u2019ve walked off as winners in the final, winner take all game of a playoff.\u00a0 \u00a0Do you remember when?\u00a0 \u00a0Not Joe \u2013 his was a game 6 walk-off.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolai Borschevsky scored for the Maple Leafs in OT in game 7 in Detroit to win a playoff series in 1993, our 1st playoff series win in over 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Encarnacion walked off the Orioles with a blast to left to advance in the 1 game playoff in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As for the flip side, Toronto had to suffer a horrid walk-off loss \u2013 May 2013, the Bruins cameback from 4-1 down in game 7 to win in OT.<\/p>\n<p>Still, 3\/4 is pretty good and Kawhi\u2019s 4 bouncer is something we will remember for a long time!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220627205912\/mailto:harley@sharpedgepicks.com\">harley@sharpedgepicks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Sunday night Kawhi did what every kid dreams about \u2013 he hit a buzzer beater in the deciding game so his team could win it.\u00a0 \u00a0It is rare.\u00a0 \u00a0Kawhi\u2019s buzzer beater was the first in a game 7 in NBA history. However, Toronto sports fans are blessed.\u00a0 \u00a0Twice previously in the last 30 years, we\u2019ve &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-value-bets-and-sports-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}