Ray Allen saved the Miami Heat’s season with an iconic three-pointer in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals that altered the entire series.

The San Antonio Spurs were seconds away from clinching the championship, but Allen’s triple sent the game to overtime, where the Heat won. Miami went on to take Game 7 and win back-to-back NBA championships.

That shot has been dubbed many times as one of the greatest ever, but according to Dwyane Wade, it was a result of a drill Allen did every day.

“After practice, Ray Allen would always sit on his butt on the block, and he will backpedal to the three-point line this was a drill that he did and so in this moment, the reason why he was able to backpedal and get there and not worry about being out of bounds, getting his feet set without looking was because he practiced it. He did it out of practice every day,” the legendary guard said on his “The Why with Dwyane Wade” podcast.

What if D-Wade took the shot?

The league has witnessed a plethora of iconic shots throughout Finals history. But there’s no question that Ray’s game-tying three-pointer in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals is arguably the greatest of them all.

“And so it was amazing that everything happened,” Wade continued. “And it was Ray Allen because if it was me, that would have been a whole different shot. He did it every day and I heard he did it in Boston, and so that’s probably the only time he got a chance to take that shot.”

With the Heat down three points, LeBron James missed a three-pointer from the left wing. Had the Spurs grabbed the rebound, Tim Duncan and Co. would have likely won another title. But as fate would have it, Chris Bosh grabbed the offensive board and saw Ray-Ray backpedaling to the corner. Bosh flicked a pass to Allen, and the rest is history.

Chalmers said he would’ve made the shot

While Wade thought it would’ve been a different story if he took that last shot, former Heat guard Mario Chalmers claimed that he would’ve made the game-tying shot if Bosh passed the ball to him instead—the guard was also wide open behind the three-point line when CB4 got the rebound.

“I was wide open, and I wanted the shot,” Chalmers said during an interview with “AM 560 Sports WQAM.” “I think I even told him something like, ‘Good shot, but I was wide open too’…….I would’ve definitely made it.”

It’s unsure if Rio was really serious when he said that. Chalmers did shoot a career-high 40.2% from deep that season, so his confidence was justified.

However, a player who had put himself in a similar situation in practice so many times before got the ball instead. Those who witnessed his drills weren’t surprised after the ball went in.