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To lay a ball into a basket? First, a correction to a general consensus: Most people are making the argument that the clock started one tenth of a second too early on T.J. Ford's last-second lay up. However, if the clock started at 0.5 and had already changed to 0.4 before Ford had even caught it, then the bare minimum amount of time that had passed before Ford touched the ball was ...
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