Shhhhh. No one tell any NBA players that a shot clock violation results in a team turnover and not one charged to the person left holding the ball.
Because it keeps delighting and entertaining us NBA fans to no end.
After we saw Josh Hart give the ball to rookie center Jaxson Hayes at the end of a New Orleans Pelicans blowout, Dwight Howard tried the same thing in a Los Angeles Lakers win and failed.
And now we have what happened at the end of the Los Angeles Clippers’ win over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night: Patrick Beverley and Derick Walton Jr. playing a game of Hot Potato with a basketball:
Rob Perez, AKA @WorldWideWob, calls it The Ballbonic Plague, which is great:
Please keep doing this, NBA players.
