Allan Houston made the game-winning shot when the New York Knicks upset the Miami Heat in the 1999 NBA playoffs. With 0.8 seconds remaining in the deciding Game 5 of their first-round series, Houston hit a running floater that gave New York a 78–77 victory.
The shot completed one of the most memorable upsets in NBA playoff history. The Knicks entered the series as the Eastern Conference’s eighth seed, while Miami was the top seed. New York became the first eighth seed to defeat a number-one seed in an NBA playoff series, and the clinching basket came after Houston drove toward the lane and released his shot before time expired.
The play is sometimes confused with a three-pointer or with a shot by Patrick Ewing, another iconic Knicks star. Houston’s basket was a short, contested field goal, and it counted because the ball left his hand before the final horn. New York’s run continued to the NBA Finals, where the Spurs defeated the Knicks.