OKLAHOMA CITY — The game-winning play that turned the NBA world on its ear Monday night required a sequence of events by Aaron Gordon that would have resulted in a Denver Nuggets loss had just one gone awry.

The Denver Nuggets spoiled the OKC Thunder’s round-two home opener last night. What looked like a dominant performance from the one-seed in the West fell apart in the fourth quarter. A perfect scenario of missed free throws and a last-second three completed the upset in Oklahoma.

No one expected the Denver Nuggets to come away with a win against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals. Yet, somehow, the Nuggets figured out a way to do it. The same Nuggets team that just played a Game 7 on Saturday.