Anfernee Simons Walks Off Nuggets for Trail Blazers' Best Win of the Season
Simons' driving layup over Russell Westbrook at the final buzzer snapped Portland's six-game losing streak.
📍 PORTLAND, Ore. — Thursday night was the first time the Trail Blazers won a game at the final buzzer at home since Game 5 of the 2019 playoffs.
Anfernee Simons was in his second year in the NBA at the time, and not a regular part of Portland’s rotation. The final shot in that game was, of course, Damian Lillard’s legendary “bad shot” to send the Oklahoma City Thunder home.
Someone else who was in the building that night was Russell Westbrook. And he was who was isolated on Simons on Thursday, when Simons made a driving layup from the right side of the basket as time expired to beat Denver and snap a six-game losing streak.
Simons was as surprised as everyone else that the Nuggets didn’t send a second defender at him.