Unusual. A guy who wipes the floor prevented a double in the NBA and Shaquille O’Neal had fun with the blooper

In addition to being the best basketball league in the world, the NBA It is the one that spreads the most. And funny situations even have a legend, Shaquille O’Neal, which features them on his television show. The one that happened in Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Minnesota Timberwolves This Friday was, in addition to being unusual, decisive in a small part of the game that the Argentine later starred in Leandro Bolmaro.

There were 2 minutes and 16 seconds left in the third quarter when Jordan McLaughlin he stole the ball in the middle of the court from Shai Gilgeous-Alexandercounterattacked and headed towards the rim with the path clear… Free of rival basketball players, but not of people: two cleaning assistants they were on the parquet, passing their floor rags to dry the field of perspiration after a previous fall. McLaughlin ran into one of them, who was on his back, and the crash took him a little away from the basket and gave Gilgeous-Alexander time to mark him. Consequence: the Minnesota player missed the shotwhich was supposed to be an easy layup or a dunk and ended up being a rushed, skewed double board attempt.

But the episode did not end there. The rebound was taken by D’Angelo Russell very close to the basket and the former Los Angeles Lakers player also missed. The ball was in the hands of Lindy Waters III, which started an attack from Oklahoma City, towards the other hoop, and then Oklahoma City ended up saving itself from the counterattack, with unexpected help. McLaughlin didn’t even rehearse a claim, and Russell barely spread his arms in complaint, though it was unclear if it was because of his failure to throw or the OKC sanitation clerk’s “block.” As if the members of Minnesota had considered the extraordinary circumstance normal. Of course, the Timberwolves were winning by a comfortable 99-83, which didn’t cause much protest. And the game continued as if nothing had happened.

Shaquille O’Neal, that extraordinary four-time champion pivot who is now a television star, published the video of the smiling action and accompanied it with one of his jokes. “OKC floor rag boy could win DPOY”, he tweeted, alluding to the Defensive Player of the Year award, or Defensive Player of the Year. And he closed with an emoji of laughter and the label #Shaqtin, which refers to his program.

In that meeting, which concluded 138-101 for the visitor, a few minutes later Bolmaro returned to NBA action after one month, since he had not played since February 2 (vs. Sacramento Kings). The Cordovan from Las Varillas entered when the advantage of his team was irreversible, he remained 5 minutes and added 6 points (2/3 in triples and 0/1 in doubles), 1 bounce, 1 assist and 1 robo. Minnesota’s top scorers were Karl-Anthony Towns and Naz Reid, with 22 points, and Gilgeous-Alexander had 33 in Oklahoma City.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-bBQbr37E

The extraordinary thing for Bolmaro is that he played two games in one day. Moreover: with less than six hours gap. He came from participating in a meeting of Iowa Wolvesby G-League, NBA development league. In victory for 107-103 on Oklahoma City Blue the former Barcelona base had been the second scorer of his team and a great figure of the game, with 21 points, 14 covers, 9 goal passes and 2 recoveries. After a while, he had the pleasure of reappearing in the world basketball elite. A magnificent day for Cordoba 21 yearsone of the promises of the Argentine team.