With one second left before the end of the game, the entire Oracle Arena was still cheering. The Warriors players were still celebrating their hard-earned victory, celebrating their escape from death.
Yet in just one second, everything changed.
The cheering fans fell deathly silent, some even breaking into tears.
The Warriors players, who had been celebrating moments ago, stared blankly ahead, unable to believe the result.
In the final second, he caught the ball under the defense of two players, turned, and hit a fading turnaround jumper.
That kind of shot was incredibly difficult even without anyone guarding him, let alone with two defenders disrupting him.
Yet that seemingly impossible shot killed the Warriors in a single blow.
With a cold-blooded game-winning answer, Link mercilessly let every Warrior experience what it meant to go from heaven to hell in one second.
On the court, the Grizzlies players were still wildly celebrating the victory. Durant stared fixedly at the right corner, still unable to believe what he had just witnessed.
When Link had trash-talked Durant earlier, Durant had mockingly thought, Did that guy really think he was Larry Bird?
But now, Durant realized that Link was even more terrifying than Larry Bird!
Durant felt utterly powerless. A few days ago, after winning a game at FedExForum, he and his teammates had thought the balance of victory would begin tilting toward the Warriors.
Little did they know, that had only been the beginning of the real nightmare.
Link's revenge had come too fiercely—one 51-point game, followed by one game-winning answer.
Durant simply could not find a way to stop Link.
Losing both home games was something Durant had never expected.
Last season, he had finally gotten to enjoy the feeling of suppressing Link. But this year, that feeling had immediately vanished without