Kieran Shannon: Kiladangan goal the closest any sport can come to basketball's buzzer-beaters

BRAVERY REWARDED: Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis shoots a match-winning three-point basket over Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic in the final seconds of an NBA conference final playoff game on Sunday. In delivering when the need was greatest, Davis reaffirmed sport’s capacity for the dramatic and magical. Picture: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Tue, 22 Sep, 2020 - 07:30

Kieran Shannon is an award-winning sportswriter renowned for big interviews, insightful columns and an unrelenting focus on high‑performance sport.

Whatever chance there is that Bryan McLoughney may know of Anthony Davis — the LA Laker, whatever about the former Cork footballer and Sunday Game panellist — it’d be fair to assume that the man commonly referred to as AD wouldn’t be familiar with McLoughney.

With an annual salary of $27m (€22.9m), Davis is listed among the 50 richest athletes on Planet Earth and has just been just voted one of the best five basketball players of 2020.