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VIDEO: Paul Pierce banks in buzzer-beater to sink Hawks: 'I called game'

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For the second night in a row, a Game 3 has been won on a banked-in buzzer beater.

On Saturday, it was the Washington Wizards walking off with a win and a 2-1 series lead over the Atlanta Hawks thanks to Paul Pierce's last-second heroics.

It shouldn't have come down to this for the Wizards, who led by 20 points with under eight minutes to play. But a determined Hawks reserve unit caught fire down the stretch and brought Atlanta all the way back.

Unlikely hero Mike Muscala knotted things up with 14 seconds remaining, nailing this triple off a terrific feed from a fallen Dennis Schroder:

Mike Muscala for three!!!

The shell-shocked Wizards got final possession, though, and while they didn't have much of a play drawn up, Pierce did what he always seems to do in big spots: He found a way to get it done.

g33's post on Vine

ESPN's Chris Broussard asked Pierce afterwards if he'd called bank (Derrick Rose copped to not calling it before his game-winner on Friday night).

Pierce didn't say he called it, but he also wouldn't say he didn't. Instead, we got one of the great non-sequiturs in postgame interview history.

Vinnyviner's post on Vine

Truth.

By the way, it took less than two hours for someone to put that on a T-shirt.

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