Brandon Roy Will Not Be Denied

Holy heck. We had your prototypical April barnburner in Portland last night ... (p)re-enacted in the first week of November. You may think this clip ends after the first minute with Brandon Roy's killer jumper to put the Blazers up two with 1.9 seconds left in overtime. But Yao Ming has something to say about it. And Roy has one more thing, too. Just watch.



The highlight comes a bit out of context, too: Roy and Yao had rather bad shooting nights leading up to this exchange. Still, once Roy potentially lost the game by fouling Yao there, you had to know he'd redeem himself, yeah? For his part (via Blazers Edge), Roy has perspective.

When questioned by a foreign reporter, Brandon said that he voted for Obama and that "Obama winning the election is bigger than any shot I could make."

After Wednesday's absurd night at the NBA theater and this wild finish ... is it safe to say the league has been inspired by the political events of the week?