Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic drilled a game-winning jumper in a 127-125 home overtime victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday, but that wasn’t the matchup’s best moment.
Earlier, a young spectator wearing a Shaquille O’Neal jersey was named fan of the game. The Jumbotron at Crypto.com Arena captured him reacting to the nomination. He began bouncing off the walls, so imagine how excited he must have been after Doncic nailed the clutch jumper.
“Legend,” The Athletic’s Dan Woike wrote of the fan on X.
Woike wasn’t the only one who took notice. Lakers forward LeBron James gave him a shout-out in his postgame news conference.
LeBron James reacts to young fan on Jumbotron
“That little kid on the jumbotron was … he’s the reason we won tonight,” James said, who scored 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the field.