Patrick Mahomes was as impressed as anyone by the Cleveland Cavaliers’ improbable game-winning shot Tuesday night.
The Cavs pulled off a wild 121-119 victory over the visiting Dallas Mavericks when guard Max Strus buried a buzzer-beater from nearly 60 feet away, his fifth three-pointer in the final four minutes of the game.
“Ain’t no way @tkelce,” Mahomes wrote on X/Twitter in response to a highlight of Strus’ shot, tagging Cleveland native and Cavs fans Travis Kelce in the tweet.
“Straight cash!!! Them boys got the juice right now!! @cavs,” Kelce responded.
Strus’ basket came after the Mavericks took a one-point lead on a dunk by P.J. Washington with 2.9 seconds remaining and set off a raucous celebration at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
“I don’t know. Donovan [Mitchell] was out of the game, so somebody else had to step up,” Strus joked during his postgame interview. “I got lucky.”
Strus, who scored 21 points on 7-of-10 three-point shooting, says he actually made a longer game-winner while playing at the Division II level in college.
The victory was Cleveland’s 20th in their last 24 games and moved the Cavs to 38-19 overall on the season. Currently, they sit in second place in the Eastern Conference, one game ahead of third-place Milwaukee and 7.5 games back of the top-seeded Boston Celtics.