The NBA Finals is often decided by one or two huge performances from role players, but San Antonio Spurs wing Danny Green's shooting against the Miami Heat is unprecedented. With 9:39 remaining in the third quarter of Game 5, Green knocked down his 23rd three-pointer of the series, breaking Ray Allen's record for the most threes in an NBA Finals.

Green is a great story. He was drafted out the University of North Carolina but was cut by two different teams before he caught on as a bench player with San Antonio. Ironically, one of the teams that cut him, telling him he wasn't good enough to play in the NBA, was LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers. Now, Green has his Spurs team one game away from the NBA championship.

This season, Green ranked seventh in the league with a 42.9 percent mark from beyond the arc, according to espn.com stats.

His shooting in the NBA Finals has been considerably better. Through the first four games of the series, he had made 19-of-28 long-range shots (69.8 percent). At the time of his record-breaking shot, Green had somehow done even better in Game 5, hitting four of his first five three-point attempts. That means Green converted on 23 of his first 33 tries - just better than two-thirds - to get the record.

Allen, the most prolific three-point shooter in NBA history and now Green's opponent as a member of the Heat, set the previous mark of 22 threes in six games in 2008 as a member of the Boston Celticsagainst the Los Angeles Lakers. Allen needed 42 attempts for his record, which underscores just how amazing Green has been this series.

Directly after Green set the record, Allen expressed his dismay at losing the record.