In the 1986 NBA championship game, the Lakers had the ball and were up one point with 3.5 seconds left, and they had the ball out of bounds. James Worthy made one of the dumbest passes in history, a pass even a high school kid knows not to make.
Worthy was at mid-court. All he had to do was throw a long pass towards his own basket and even if it was to the other team, they could not have made it up court in time to score. But Worthy, an All-Star player made a cross court pass that was intercepted by Dennis Johnson who dribbled in all alone for the winning layup as time expired.
How could an All-Star player, a player making millions of dollars a year, and who had played the game for years, make such a dumb pass? Who knows? Worthy was known for his basketball skills, not for his smarts, and this was one of the dumbest moves ever.
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