Steven Adams’ pass the unsung hero of OKC’s win over Minnesota

With 1.1 seconds left in regulation, Adams threw a perfect pass to Dennis Schröder who tied the game with a buzzer-beating layup.

Let’s be honest here. Dennis Schröder did an incredible job getting a last-second layup off in time to beat the buzzer.

Chris Paul did his part in pointing out Jordan Bell’s untucked jersey that got the delay of game technical assessed, which in turn, allowed the sequence of events to unfold the way that they did: with Danilo Gallinari making the technical free-throw to bring the Thunder within a point before Karl-Anthony Towns accidentally made the second of two free-throws, which gave Oklahoma City the opportunity to take the ball out of bounds.

But all that would have been useless if not for the ridiculous inbounds pass made by Steven Adams.

With no timeouts, Adams ran out of bounds, set his feet, and launched the ball with perfect precision into the hands of Schröder.

Social media reacted accordingly.

The duo said after the game that they had been talking about a last-second scenario prior to Towns’ made free-throw.

“We had a couple of times before where I just lose my man and I tried to sprint as fast as I can,” said Schröder. “And he made a (expletive) of a pass.”

Nick Gallo pointed out that Adams can be seen practicing those long baseball-style passes frequently at practice.

“Those situations do arise, and honestly mate, all it is I can’t do a good technique pass, so I resort to a baseball pass,” said Adams. “It worked out well, mate, it worked out well.”

Oklahoma City went on to win 139-127 in overtime, so for the Thunder, it did indeed work out well.