After Ivica Zubac tied the contest 99-99 with eight seconds remaining, Jokic took a spinning fadeaway on the Nuggets' final possession. Jokic's shot air-balled past the rim and into the hands of Gordon, who dunked it emphatically as the buzzer sounded and the red lights came on.

Ex-Phoenix Suns' C Deandre Ayton beat the Clippers with dunk at 0.7 seconds left in the 2021 playoffs. Aaron Gordon did something similar on April 26.

The main course of one of the greatest first-round matchups in NBA history was served on Saturday as the Nuggets, down 2-1 in the series and in desperate need of a momentum shift, pulled off perhaps the most stunning victory of the season behind Aaron Gordon's buzzer-beating dunk (the first in playoff history, according to ESPN) in Game 4.