John "Helicopter" Humphrey craves the spotlight.

In fact, if you ask him, he'll talk about it the way others have talked about the headline-grabbing basketball careers of Michael Jordan and Dwyane Wade, especially their fourth-quarter heroics.

The spotlight shined brightly on him Sunday afternoon. With his team trailing by one point in the closing minute against the Toyama Grouses, the Tokyo Apache star scored the deciding basket, splitting two defenders for a layup that produced the final margin, 87-86.