That’s a new one for me. Apparently, you can get an assist off the opening tip, as the guy doing the tipping. Jason Thompson just managed to do it last night, otherwise I wouldn’t even believe it.
The scorekeepers must have figured that instead of tipping blindly at the ball, Thompson tipped it WITH PURPOSE towards his teammate, thus making it more of a pass than a tip. I watched the video frame-by-frame for six hours and I’m not seeing it but, hey, there’s a reason they’re the scorekeepers and I’m just some full-of-himself internet commentator.
The date of December the 7th, 2014 will forever mark an important milestone in my highlight-compiling career. This is the first time I have shown the opening tip in any of my videos. Scribes have taken note of this date in their records, the histories have been rewritten, and knowledge of this achievement will live on until the eventual downfall of human civilization.