The four-hour slog between nuggets and Trail Blazers caused an NBA Y2K

The Portland Trail Blazers survived the 68-minute marathon against the Denver Nuggets on Friday with a 140-137 home win. For more than 60 years since the last time a playoff match had been played in four overtime (1953), neither team had prepared exactly for that particular scenario. In the field, the lack of preparation came as Rodney Hood's fresh legs became a playoff hero and ended the match 3 with a last-minute burst. The NBA itself was barely able to keep up with the pace of action because the league's application and website have been almost completely destroyed for their users almost every year.

Of course, contrary to the expectations of the year 2000, the application and the site did not collapse in a way that put an end to apocalyptic civilization as we know it. Instead, the numbers were updated just afterwards to show that CJ McCollum played 60 minutes and Nikola Jokic 64.

These numbers are impressive, but the result of the box is not even more impressive. McCollum's 60 minutes do not say that when he was asked how tired he was after the match, he told ESPN that he felt good (honestly, I believe him). The 64 minutes of Jokic do not indicate that he played the second half and four overtime in his entirety, nor does he show his burning desire for the sweet release of death at the moment he was instructed to hit two free throws to try to equalize the game late in the last period of play.

The bad news is that he missed his first try and sealed the game for Portland. The good news is that it will not wait long before trying to redeem itself, because the fourth game will be held Sunday at 19 hours, just 41 hours from the end of the third match.