Kierkegaard wrote that life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. In other words, we have to experience things to learn from them, and we have to move on with those lessons in mind.
And so Brown stepped to the free throw line, some 50 hours removed from his failure against the Knicks, and calmly knocked it down. He’d hit four of his next five from the line in overtime, part of an 11 point extra period, to help his Celtics snap a three-game losing streak and beat L.A.