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Garfield (Gar) Heard, (born May 3 1948 in Hogansville, Georgia) is a former American professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at the University of Oklahoma, and was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 3rd round of the 1970 NBA Draft. He had an eleven-year NBA career for four different teams (the Sonics, the Buffalo Braves/San Diego Clippers, the Chicago Bulls, and the Phoenix Suns). Throughout his career he was an excellent rebounder and shot-blocker. Heard is probably best known for an incredible buzzer beater he made to send Game 5 of the Phoenix-Boston championship series in 1976 into a third overtime, a feat which is commonly known as "The Shot".

In addition to his playing career, Heard served as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks from 1993 to 1994 and the Washington Wizards from 1999 to 2000. During the 2004-2005 season, Heard was an assistant coach with the Detroit Pistons; he coached several games that season when Larry Brown was out due to a medical condition.

Trivia

Heard's college coach at Oklahoma, John MacLeod
, would later be his Suns coach.

Heard's Phoenix team advanced to the 1976 NBA Finals by defeating the defending champion Golden State Warriors in the conference finals. The starting center on that Golden State team was former college teammate Clifford Ray
.

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