The Indiana Pacers dropped 162 points in regulation against the Washington Wizards. But even so, they were still not without their lowlights offensively.
Indiana throttled Washington on Thursday, winning by an absurd 162-109 final score. The Pacers especially packed a punch from deep during the contest, hitting 27 three-pointers on a hapless Wizards team.
But the reason why the Pacers did not hit 28 threes was because of big man Tony Bradley. Currently on a 10-day contract, Bradley fired off a shot in the fourth quarter that was so terrible that he almost got basketball as a sport banned from the state of Indiana altogether.
While camped out in the corner, Bradley received a pass from Pacers teammate Aaron Nesmith and decided to let it fly. Instead of hitting nothing but net, Bradley hit nothing but … the wrong side of the backboard. The (generously defined) “shot attempt” clanged off the back of the board with a sickening thud and landed out of bounds, almost taking out an innocent cameraman in the process.
Here is the video.
That was a shot that you would expect to see from an eight-year-old playing in the YMCA, not a professional NBA player. Bradley should have to submit a written apology for that one.
In fairness to Bradley, the Pacers were already up 152-100 at the time, so he couldn’t have possibly done anything there to actually hurt his team, even by deflating the ball with a pocket knife and eating it on the spot. Bradley also has the ability to hit those from time-to-time and is unbelievably a 48.4 percent career three-point shooter between the regular season and the playoffs combined (albeit on very low volume).
The 27-year-old Bradley ultimately finished the game with a respectable eight points in nine minutes of action. While that shot attempt was dangerously close to violating public indecency regulations, at least it did not occur under the bright lights of All-Star Weekend like it once did with another NBA player.
