With Sunday’s game at Miami all but decided, the Boston Celtics found themselves in a bit of a conundrum.
They had to send a player to the line to shoot a technical foul free throw with 32 seconds to play.
Jae Crowder realized there was only one way to settle this: rock-paper-scissors?
Yes, that game made its way on to the floor during Boston’s 105-95 win over the Miami Heat.
“I don’t know where it came from,” said Crowder who won by the way, with paper.
“We’ve never done it before,” added Crowder who wound up missing the technical free throw. “I don’t know; it was something that we did. I told Avery, ‘let’s shoot rock-paper-scissors for the free throw.’ He said, ‘what?’ And it just so happened the cameras saw us.”
It didn’t take long before word of the rock-paper-scissors battle got back to head coach Brad Stevens who had a little fun with the question when asked about on Monday.
“It’s an important part of the end of the game,” quipped Stevens. “We come into the huddle and decide who we’re drawing a play up for, we do rock-paper-scissors first. Obviously, you have to have multiple rock-paper-scissors games going on to get to the final. We bracket that out and by the time we get to one minute is on the clock, I come in and ask who won. And we draw the play up and that’s who it’s for.”
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