Was Nic Batum’s late basket against the Lakers to put the Hornets up by two a “game-winner?” When I think of game-winners, I think of shots made with no time left on the clock. In my opinion, any made shot that gives the opponent more than three seconds to get another shot off are not game-winners. So Nic Batum’s shot won the game for them in the end, but it was not a “game-winner”.
Another reason why it wasn’t a game-winner: Nic shot free throws afterwards for an unrelated personal foul. If there’s so much time left in the game that you get to get fouled and shoot free throws, what you did was not a game-winner. It was just a clutch late-game shot. So if everybody could stop referring to what Batum did as a “game-winner”, that would be great. Anybody who refers to his shot as such in the comments or anywhere else on the internet will have their YouTube account reported to the proper local authorities for deletion.
And that’s all I have to say about that.