Olden Polynice does the DX “suck it” to the Kings thinking the game is over, meanwhile Peja has just tied the game at the buzzer
Lolol I’ve never seen this.
Who would be the player to do this in 2025?
Ant, Joel or Pat Bev.
It’s definitely Joel. The gif of Ant doing this went viral, but Embiid’s been doing this celebration well before and way more often lol.
He even came out of the tunnel with Triple H once and they did it together lmao
At this point, I think it’s Embiid’s preferred celebration move
Fitting, since he has about as many reasons to celebrate as OP in this clip.
Embiid would be doing the airplane, but would end up being the 9⁄11 version.
As much as I hate it, Dillon Brooks
Pat Bev ain’t in the league anymore
Nah a moment like this would take someone like Malik Beasley
perfect
Whats kind of crazy is Polynice’s age in this clip. Dude has to be early 30s, maybe even mid. It would be like Jonas Valanciunas doing this.
it’s gotta be a player who talks a lot, and is kind of a goof
PJ is on that list for me
Dillon Brooks for sure
Sochan
Poole
Mathurin
Kuzma
Ron Holland
Ja
the hornets whole team
Haliburton over mathurin tbh ben isn’t super outwardly expressive socially
it would be funny if it was someone completely unexpected.
Steven Adams
Jokic
Hali almost did it with the choke. Same concept of making cocky gesture based on a misunderstanding. Difference was just that they pulled it home in overtime.
If he gets brought back for one more year, Lance Stephenson
How about the defense going to help on Vlade under the basket with 1 second left and a 3 point lead, leaving Peja wide open in the corner?
And Chris Webber standing at the free throw line pointing for Vlade to shoot it.
Webber is famous for his late-game situational awareness.
Webber should have just called a timeout.
cold blooded
He was asking for the pass while then backing up for a 3 though. He wasn’t telling Vlade to shoot it from 2.
Are you blind, he was calling for the ball while backing up
He crashed to the free throw line at 2.5 seconds, started backing up but a foot on the free throw line at 1.0 seconds.
3 of the defenders are just chilling with still 1.5 seconds on the clock, it’s crazy
This is how the best defender of the 90s Gary Payton, used to play /s
This is a lot of people’s “golden age” of basketball.
To be fair this exact same thing happened in 2021 Knicks vs. Pelicans where Lonzo Ball helped off the strong side corner when up by 3 with 4 seconds left leaving Reggie bullock open for the game tying shot.
https://youtu.be/ZgWxfUar0h8?si=84tDb5uL3fexg2xS
I’m not trying to get involved in a 90s flame war but these are not even close to the same thing.
Yeah, Lonzo made a mistake, but Rose could have laid it in with 3 seconds left. He took one step towards the paint and realized he made mistake.
Vlade has the ball in his hand with 1 second left meanwhile sonic guy is just chilling in the paint (not even trying to defend anyone). He thought the game was over.
The Sonics went 25-25 that season and didn’t make the playoffs. They were 26th in defensive rating
True but nowadays only bad teams make those mistakes. The Sonics were a .500 team in 99 so I guess you can consider them ok at best. But defensive philosophies change over time. I was being a little too harsh honestly originally.
Somebody’s gonna say this about you one day.
I don’t know what my favorite Era is.
I mean that “suck it” emote is OP
Not much different from today, in terms of shitty defensive effort.
This is MJs era. Fuck I hate 90s basketball
I’ve seen this before, and I always thought he started doing if after the ball hit the rim, but nah he started doing the Shawn Michaels as the ball was swinging for an open three, lol. WTF. Dude wasn’t even looking to see if the ball went in.
The Steph curry of suck it’s
More like the Nick Young considering the outcome
Or Kemba Walker lol
I find it hilarious that the Lakers legit thought this guy was the obvious player to keep between him and DLo
Well he probably thought the shot didn’t get off in time, and he was actually right.
It was shitty defence from the whole team
Peja shot that ball so fast, like within .5 seconds
he missed the shot clock, but the refs didn’t do anything about it.
I don’t think they were allowed to watch the replays back then, were they?
You’d think they’d be looking at the wide open shooter and could hear the buzzer as Olden Polynice did.
It looks like he started it once he heard the buzzer.
Nah, he knew the shot was late. Dude had it right.
Hilarious … but tbh the ball was still in Peja’s hands when the clock ran out.
My first thought lol….. that was WAY late!!!!! Oh well replay didn’t exist yet. Sometimes I’m mad that the game is too under the microscope now, but sometimes it was nice not having replay lol.
There’s tons of game winners pre like 2005 that shouldn’t have counted if they had slow Mo HD cameras that they do now
Obviously reviews suck but it’s better than losing to a shot that shouldn’t have counted
Thank you, scrolled too far down for this
They mention that in the video.
Yeah, and they didn’t start the clock for like 0.4 seconds until after the kings touched the ball either
lol. The announcers: “Wow, he didn’t get it off.”
“Who cares, we’re playing overtime.”
Ok, Billy Crystal.
Why did the defender leave the corner to meet Vlade at the rim? It’s a three point lead you goof!
NBA 2K teammate logic be like
He didn’t even play D on Vlade, mostly just watching him.
Time expired
Right in today’s age that’s a replay and no bucket
How many years before another kid named Olden graces the NBA?
It’s not a modern name. It was mainly used in the Olden days…
gorgeous
Will it be before or after we see another Elden like Campbell? Perhaps if by some miracle someone who names their kid after Elden Ring raises a freak athlete, it could happen
Who won the game after overtime?
Sonics
The Olden game
Ball don’t lie
What the fuck was that defense?
It’s like no one knew the score of the game.
Defense technically worked. Delayed long enough that time expired with the ball still in his hands.
Nah the offense just made an error, he could have easily passed it sooner. I don’t think the defense did anything to force that error.
I get why he did it. Classless and juvenile, especially as a bench bum, but he thought the game was over, and it should’ve been. That shot has no business counting. It was still in Peja’s hands for a few split seconds after the clock hit zero.
How many splits are in a second?
Plus it was against his former team, that he was a long-suffering player for.
Used to actually respect OP for everything he was for the Kings back then, and then he left and started talking his shit.
😂😂 OP was salty they junked him
Jess Kersey and a very young Tony Brothers officiating. No wonder they thought he got the shot off before the buzzer when he didn’t. Just a few weeks later Kersey would call the LJ four point play in the conference finals. It’s no wonder Slick Leonard tossed an entire ball rack at Kersey back in the ABA.
that was not verynice olden
Peja was so sick 🔥 his son is nice too
I trust you’ve seen his behind the back, three-quarters court, right on the money pass to Bobby Jackson (I think it was) on a fast break?
I know he’s doing the hand gesture but that man got 3 pelvic thrusts in within like a second. That’s the NBA nowadays. Guys only getting in 1.5-2 PTPG. Why they could never compete in that generational era.
God damn the defense is ass
Feat. Baby White Chocolate.
Never seen this and first time hearing about Olden Polynice
He was a pretty big deal. 1st team ACC, NYC basketball hall of fame, basketball ambassador to Haiti, and 2x police impersonator.
Oh he’s a fun one to read about. Got arrested once for pretending to be a cop.
Geez Jason Williams looks 15 years old lol. And without his 5 o’clock shadow Peja only looks 17 or 18.
I also love Divac looking away towards the baseline after his pass like that was going to fool anyone.
he should have arrested everyone on the Kings as well as the refs for making him look bad
Wouldn’t have been his first time
Who won the game?
Seattle. 99-98.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199904150SAC.html
So his celebration was warranted and didn’t come back to bite them at all 😂 hope he did it again at the end of overtime
It was warranted when Peja didn’t get the ball off in time
I had to pause it perfectly and that ball is still in his hands at all zeroes.
Had he been like .1 or .2 seconds faster it would have been legit.
Eh, refs are part of the game too. Wasnt an egregious call. Cant play as if the refs can distinguish .1 seconds.
Did they not utilize replay here ?
Not until early 2000s
Ooh I thought they were using it here in the video? If not then yeah its not that egregious
That was the longest 4.4 seconds to ever occur
Not only was the ball still in the shooter’s hands when the clock hit 0, the clock didn’t start for like half a second after the inbound.
Terrible.
I don’t know what’s worse, the premature celebration or the ATROCIOUS defense here.
OR THE ATROCIOUS no call of it not counting cause it was still in peja hands when time expired
OP Sucks.
Anthony Edwards would never
Sweet sassy molassy!
Man I miss having player like Peja and Webber on my team….
Did they win this game?
I miss cheerleaders shaking their pom-poms…
Looks like ball was still in his hands when it hit 00.0 in my opinion
Did we win?
I still remember watching this live and thinking what the hell is Polynice doing and celebrating all in a split second.
What’s with the Sonics’ players waiving their hands like this doesn’t count? Why wouldn’t it count?
Mavericks legend Peja Stojakovic
takes me back to my teen years when this was done 100x a day
Reminds me of THjr calling the ref safe instead of contesting a three pointer
Suck it , Olden.
Good times.
Surprised I’ve never seen this considering how popular that Kings team was back then. Great find OP. Polynice definitely bitter towards his old team lol.
What was 33 doing lol
I miss me some Koz!
Wasn’t he a former Kings player? Makes it even funnier if so
Would love to watch Peja in the modern NBA
“Tryna stop my shine, but no, they never could find the switch
I pull up and shoot this bitch from anywhere like Stojakovic”
There are some names that just stick out to you and you remember them for the rest of your life, even if you were never a fan of him or any teams he was ever on. Olden Polynice.
The ball was still in Peja’s hands when time expired…
What the fuck was that defence holy shit
It really was a special time, throwin down the DX sign and tellin everyone to suck it.
Fine, suspension, and a letter of apology these days. Unfortunately
one of the best things about late career Payton on the Sonics is watching him stare in disbelief at his dumb teammates.
At 0.0 he still has possession of the ball 🤨
lol op was always such a loser and a weirdo. Got his karma fricking cop impersonating weirdo bum
u/savevideo
Criminally bad defense, leaving Stojakovic wide open. Whoever that is is lucky this old footage is blurry so it’s hard to see his besmirched name.
Kids these days really can’t understand how absolutely ubiquitous wrestling fandom was during the late 90s.
Shot was late but very impressive playmaking by Vlade there. A corner 3 from Peja is a fabulous outcome for that situation.
Damn, one of the young Tony brothers are there.
Go frame by frame… he didn’t get that shot off before the buzzer and it really wasn’t even close. The DX Suck It chop was deserved. Refs botched this.
While slowing it down the ball was still on his finger tips . Oh well
The last time the kings were relevant
White chocolate, Peja, Divac…. Any side would’ve been relevant but for the Kangz
What were the Sonics players complaining about after the 3? There were zero doubts the ball was out of Peja’s hands before the buzzer.
EDIT: Buzzer operator tricked me. There’s some doubt lol
Going through it in slow mo, there’s a couple frames where the clock’s at 0 before it leaves Peja’s hand. If it’s 2025, they wave that off.
Nah bruh lol. He definitely didn’t release that in time
The ball is 100% in his hands when the clock gets to zero
Lmao what. Check the slo mo replay.
he caught it at 0.3 seconds
If the ball hit the shotclock or the top of the backboard after bouncing off the rim, it wouldn’t count.