{"id":1713,"date":"2025-04-27T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/1713\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:36:09","slug":"aaron-gordon-achieved-nba-postseason-history-on-his-game-winning-nuggets-dunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/1713\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Gordon achieved NBA postseason history on his game-winning Nuggets dunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Nuggets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Nuggets<\/a> won Game 4 of their opening 2025 NBA playoff series with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> on the road on Saturday night in absolutely jaw-dropping fashion.<\/p>\n<p>It was the dunk heard around the world as Denver forward Aaron Gordon got a quite literal last-second dunk to give the Nuggets a thrilling 101-99 victory and tie the playoff series up at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s even more incredible is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimBontemps\/status\/1916302867406667936\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN&#039;s Tim Bontemps reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN&#8217;s Tim Bontemps reported<\/a> that this is the very first game-winning, buzzer-beating dunk in NBA playoff history. Woah!<\/p>\n<p>Take a victory lap, Aaron Gordon. This is one of the coolest finishes in NBA postseason history.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN Research and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bball_ref?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@bball_ref;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@bball_ref<\/a>, that Aaron Gordon dunk is the first ever game-winning buzzer-beating dunk in NBA postseason history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimBontemps\/status\/1916302867406667936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:April 27, 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">April 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuggets fans will be talking about this one for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/04\/26\/aaron-gordon-nba-postseason-history-game-winning-nuggets-dunk\/83306431007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aaron Gordon achieved NBA postseason history on game-winning Nuggets dunk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aaron Gordon achieved NBA postseason history on game-winning Nuggets dunk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets won Game 4 of their opening 2025 NBA playoff series with the Los Angeles Clippers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[877,7,187,130,135,6,1007,11,1165,1275],"class_list":{"0":"post-1713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-aaron-gordon","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-on-espn","15":"tag-nba-playoffs","16":"tag-playoff-series","17":"tag-tim-bontemps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114407603280021015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}