On April 27, 1984, Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons and Bernard King of the New York Knicks engaged in a great shootout in Game 5 of the 1984 Eastern Conference first-round playoff series. New York won 127-123 in overtime.

King scored 12 of his game-high 44 points in the final 5:12 of the fourth quarter, but Thomas stole his thunder by tallying Detroit’s final 14 points in a span of 1:34 to send the game into overtime, where each star had four points.

"Sometimes Zeke is magical—you saw it tonight," Pistons coach Chuck Daly said of Thomas.