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Spurs Score Six Points in Three Seconds Thanks to Terrible Clippers Inbounding

if they held that scoring pace throughout the whole game? They would have trounced the Clippers with 2,880 points. Damn.

One of the great allures of basketball is the speed of scoring. None of the dreary zero-zero draws of soccer or the ad-laden gridlock of football—this is fast-paced, upwards of 250+ points of rubber-smearing hoopsketball. But while the game is quick, six points in three seconds is mind-evaporating.

Last night, that exact feat was achieved in the waning seconds of the LA Clippers' home game against the San Antonio Spurs thanks to two of the worst inbounds passes you'll see in a minute. The Spurs were down 12 with 20 seconds and change, when Pau Gasol went to the line and sunk his free throws. (Two points—check.)

Then, when it came time for Clippers forward Wesley Johnson to deliver the inbounds, long-limbed Spurs forward Kyle Anderson slapped the ball out of the air and fed it to Gasol for the dunk. Then Anderson clowned on Johnson once again with nearly the exact same slap and dunked it himself.

Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

Normally, being seven points down with 17 seconds seems impossible, but at the rate of six points in three seconds?! Manageable. Unfortunately, the Spurs didn't mount that victorious comeback and lost 106-101. But if they held that scoring pace throughout the whole game? They would have trounced the Clippers with 2,880 points. Damn.