One of the closest shaves in sporting history occured on this day, 11 years ago. Power forward David Lee managed to pull off a victory courtesy of a margin of time usually only seen in Formula One qualifying races.
His game-winning basket from a tip-in for the New York Knicks during the double-overtime contest against the Charlotte Bobcats came with only 00:00.1 seconds left on the clock.
The shot counted because Lee deflected an inbounds pass into the basket. It was the first occurrence of a team winning an NBA game with one-tenth of a second left since the competition implemeted the so-called ‘Trent Tucker Rule’ in 1990.
Other memorable events on this day:
1894: England beat Australia by 10 runs in the first six-day Test cricket match.
1966: The NBA awarded Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68.
1983: Montreal ice hockey legend Guy Lafleur became the 10th NHL star to score 500 goals.
2011: Liverpool’s Luis Suarez was banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 (Dh182,000) by the FA for racially abusing Patrice Evra.
