Harry Fergusson gave it a heave – and it proved a nice little earner.
The 13-year-old Nelson College year 9 student brought the house down at the Trafalgar Centre on Saturday when his sure shooting earned him more than $5000 in just 30 seconds.
Nelson's "other brothers from another mother" provided the knockout blows as the Nelson Giants kept an unblemished home record in the national basketball league.
The Manawatu Jets are the best worst team in the national basketball league.
Despite inhabiting second-to-last place on the Bartercard NBL ladder, having lost all eight games compared with the Otago Nuggets' nine futile outings, the Jets are showing there are definite signs of life in the formerly moribund franchise.
Nelson Giants point guard Josh Bloxham has secured one of two development contracts made available by New Zealand Breakers for the coming Australian national basketball league season.
Mika Vukona and Mike Harrison had a job to do.
From the peaks of Palmerston North to the holes in Hawke's Bay in 24 hours – that's the topographical summary of the Nelson Giants' road trip in the national basketball league.
Michael Harrison is the Nelson Giants' first player of the week in the national basketball league season.
Brian Rampton wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
The big, rawboned Taranaki man was the father of two sons, Tony and Damon, who are even bigger and more bony and, although a long-term injury saw Damon forced out of national league basketball, there's no lack of the Rampton spirit in evidence when the Nelson Giants take on the Mountain Airs.
If there's one word that's overused in sports, it's "greatest".
Especially when "greatest" is followed by "ever".
Wellington Saints had been averaging 97 points a game in the National Basketball League, until they ran into a wall of white.
Steve Fitchett knows the rules.
The national basketball league finals might still be on the horizon, but you can certainly see them from here.