Playoff basketball is supposed to be exciting. And with a festive atmosphere on Golden Week, the bj-league's first scheduled postseason contest of the 2011-12 season lived up to the hype on Saturday.
Case in point: Sendai 89ers big man Rashaad Singleton went from goat to hero in a matter of seconds.
Singleton was 1-for-7 at the free-throw line, but before the final buzzer sounded he made a game-ending dunk —call it a sayonara slam — as the visitors grabbed a stunning 79-77 triumph in Game 1 of their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at Akita Municipal Gymnasium.