ESPN Re-Aired Game 7 of 2016 NBA Finals, Didn't Show Kyrie Irving Hitting the Biggest Shot In Cavaliers' History

ESPN re-aired games 5 and 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals on Wednesday night. Game 7 featured two of the most iconic plays in recent basketball history with LeBron James blocking Andre Iguodala and Kyrie Irving hitting the go-ahead three-pointer over MVP Stephen Curry. Somehow, Kyrie's shot did not make the final cut on Wednesday.

ESPN re-aired Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals last night. They went to commercial with 1:09 left and returned with 23 seconds left, missing Kyrie Irving’s game-winning three pointer (in this video, I cut out most of the ad break) pic.twitter.com/plQcuXD12I
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Instead, ESPN went to commercial after LeBron's block and rejoined the broadcast with 23 seconds remaining and the Cavaliers protecting a 92-89 lead. It was the most interesting "cut for time" decision of all time. It was like the Heidi Game, but if they had three and a half years to make sure it ended before the movie started. Except the movie is SportsCenter. And sports had ended three weeks earlier.