It must be Joe Cool.
After leading for the majority of Monday night’s Nets-Nuggets game, Brooklyn fell apart down the stretch, eventually hanging onto the game by the thinnest of threads. An odd jump ball led to the Denver Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried hitting an absurd, awkward leaner over Shane Larkin to put the Nets down 2 with just over a second left.
After Jrue Holiday sunk an unlikely game-winning shot for the Pelicans to beat the Nets at the end of January, this was a feeling all too familiar for the Nets. But the darkest of times reveals the brightest of suns: the most dire of times brings us the most recent miraculous version of Joe Johnson.
With 1.3 seconds left, a broken down play left Johnson scrambling to even get a shot off. The result was a frantic one-dribble fading one-legged leaner that banked in at the buzzer for the first feel-good, elating Nets victory this season.
Here’s how the internet reacted:
#Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov with the reaction of the year. #NETSonYEShttps://t.co/5c1EjJt4Zk
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) February 9, 2016
Joe Johnson game winner! pic.twitter.com/xFenPPm7od
— Tom Lorenzo (@TomLorenzo) February 9, 2016
Joe Johnson flings one up that somehow goes in, and the Nets win. Remarkable.
— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) February 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/the_jameslee12/status/696896679828680704
Mikhail Prokhorov experienced every emotion during the Nets win. https://t.co/UsDdxe1tQI https://t.co/ughraUpX6y
— SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) February 9, 2016
Joe Johnson still got it ?
— matt bo (@districtbohh) February 9, 2016
Gd joe johnson??
— Sauce Uchiha?️ (@sauceelord) February 9, 2016
Mikhail Prokhorov on Joe Johnson's game winner: "Joe Cool, as usual."
— Andy Vasquez (@andy_vasquez) February 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/Jason_Nick_/status/696896157809823744
Joe Johnson always hitting game winners. Definitely one of the clutches to play.
— Jalil Abdul-Bassit (@ValidJab) February 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/cashyzach/status/696896102700871681
#TFW you nail the last-second game-winner *and* called bank. #NETSonYES pic.twitter.com/RNJGAn8kbI
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) February 9, 2016
"Anything's possible man, we just gotta keep fighting." -Joe Johnson after nailing the game-winner for the #Nets.https://t.co/hY99YpueNu
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) February 9, 2016
