Wildcats captain Damian Martin has been unofficially crowned the “three-point hero” after helping his team to victory in overtime yesterday.

However, not everyone was convinced he deserved that title.

Martin told Hit 92.9’s breakfast show this morning he received a death threat shortly after the game from an unhappy man who’d bet $20,000 on Sydney Kings.

Martin’s heroism didn’t end on the court though.

His night took another unexpected turn when on the way back from collecting fish and chips for dinner he saw a house on fire.

“I started running up the stairs and I yelled out ‘is anyone inside’ and this old guy said ‘oh, is my house on fire?’,” Martin said to co-host Xavier Ellis.

Armed with a garden hose, he heroically jumped on the roof to try and put out the fire.

“I yelled out if anyone else was inside and he said ‘just my dog’, and so I jumped down and went to find his dog.

“The dog wasn’t wearing a collar ... and mate I’d spent 30-odd minutes guarding Jerome Randle and Kevin Lisch and here I was on word of a lie in a defensive stance trying to make sure this dog doesn’t get past (me) and back into the house.

“I went inside and grabbed his computer ... he might want to save the memories of photos ... but it was a desktop so here I am unplugging things trying to get this desktop out and then it turns out the desktop was attached to a TV screen, so I’m grabbing the TV as well.”

Martin told Hit 92.9 the man lost about half of his roof in the blaze.