Here’s another lesson from this year’s NBA playoffs, again, courtesy of my son David. In the final seconds of Game 4 of the finals, Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, essentially beaten on a play, came back to block a dunk. If you missed it, it’s worth a look:

There’s wisdom in what Giannis said afterward, recorded here in an ESPN story:

Two days after Giannis Antetokounmpo’s ridiculous block of Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton’s dunk attempt late in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the Milwaukee Bucks superstar still can’t explain exactly how he pulled it off. “It’s incredible what your body is [able] to do,” Antetokounmpo said Friday. “When you think about winning, you go to the extreme. I cannot explain the play. But, at the end of the day, that’s in the past. When you talk about the past, that’s your ego talking. It’s in the past. It’s over with. I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got keep finding ways to help my team be great. Great moment. I appreciate the moment. Great moment. [But] we got to move on.”

And move on they did: after starting game 5 down 32 – 16, they came back to win. They won game 6 and the championship last Tuesday with Giannis scoring 50 points.

You’re only as good as your last play. – Sign in the office of Fisher DeBerry, former Head Football Coach, US Air Force Academy

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3.13, 14, ESV)