{"id":201659,"date":"2025-10-10T02:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201659\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:56:14","slug":"thunders-cason-wallace-hits-insane-buzzer-beater-horse-shot-from-impossible-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201659\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Cason Wallace hits insane buzzer-beater HORSE shot from impossible angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025-26 <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA <\/a>regular season hasn&#8217;t quite started just yet, but the preseason has been filled with a few incredible moments already.<\/p>\n<p>One of those jaw-dropping moments came from <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thunder <\/a>guard Cason Wallace, who hit one of the most insane shots you&#8217;ll see in any NBA game.<\/p>\n<p>Cason Wallace hits buzzer-beater at impossible angle<\/p>\n<p>It was a regular NBA preseason game between the Thunder and <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hornets <\/a>when Cason Wallace decided to throw up a shot we&#8217;ve probably never seen go in before.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes into the third quarter, an airball was put up on a shot by Jaylin Williams as the shot clock was winding down, but Cason Wallace saved the possession with an acrobatic play you&#8217;ve only seen in a game of H-O-R-S-E in your friend&#8217;s driveway.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cason Wallace, HOW?!?! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ryJJoNGP8Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ryJJoNGP8Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1976463149021773906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wallace caught the airball and immediately put a rainbow-esque shot up from behind the backboard, and somehow it found its way into the bottom of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off an NBA championship, Wallace is looking to make an impact already in the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>In a low-stakes game, there was no reason to make an extra effort to keep this play alive, but Wallace did it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>He played substantial minutes with the team during his first two seasons in the league, but plays like this impress coaches and show them what they can expect from a player once the regular season and playoffs begin.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace averaged 27.6 minutes in 2024-25 in 68 games and 43 starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder kick off their 2025-26 regular season against the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rockets <\/a>on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-jimmy-butler-former-all-star-teammate\/eee5f88adfcbc743edf4decc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Warriors reportedly interested in Jimmy Butler&#8217;s former three-time all-star teammate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 NBA regular season hasn&#8217;t quite started just yet, but the preseason has been filled with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-201659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}