The NBA has released its official top 10 plays of the LA Clippers’ 2015-16 season, and there are plenty of thrilling dunks and buzzer beaters to check out.
The NBA’s official YouTube channel has been releasing videos to look back at some of the best moments of the 2015-16 season. So, when it comes to the LA Clippers’ top 10 plays, there were obviously lobs, ankle breakers, no-look alley-oops, and buzzer beaters everywhere.
To see for yourself and to relive some electrifying plays to help get you through the dullest days of a basketball free summer, here it is.
Besides the typical players you’d expect to steal the show (the Big 3 of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan), LA Clippers alum Lance Stephenson made an appearance with the 4th best play in the highlight reel.
If you hadn’t guessed already, it was his monster dunk over Los Angeles Lakers power forward Julius Randle in January. Storming down the lane, Stephenson rose high over Randle and kept moving through contact for his best play as a Clipper and one of the best dunks of the year altogether.
Heading into the Clippers’ top three plays, the team’s main trio made a return.
Of course, Jordan’s poster over Greg Monroe, where he proceeded to take off far from the basket, send Monroe to the ground, and throw the ball down into the basket, made the cut at 3rd place. How could it not? For all the dunks Jordan has had in his explosive career, his poster on Monroe stands out as one of the best, behind the famous alley-oop on Brandon Knight in 2013.
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2nd place was a little different, opting for Jamal Crawford‘s game-winning three against the Utah Jazz in April. Keeping his defender Derrick Favors guessing, Crawford pulled up off the dribble and made the high-arching shot look easy. For the importance of the shot in the Clippers’ late season run, it’s easy to see why it was chosen over Jordan’s dunk.
1st place was a deserving one, even more difficult than Crawford’s game-winner. While it may not have been the kind of dynamite alley-oop dunk that could easily top the list, J.J. Redick‘s buzzer beater to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers in March was chosen.
With only 1.1 seconds left in the game, Redick caught the inbounds pass from Paul, turned his body just a few inches inside the arc, and drained the shot over C.J. McCollum and 6’10” Ed Davis. For the fact the shot won a game and for its level of difficulty, it was always going to deserve a high spot on the list.
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Would you have ranked these plays any differently? Or are there any plays from the LA Clippers’ season that you wanted to make the list instead? Let us know in the comments below!