Debunking the Myth of Clutch in the NBA Once and for All. Adam Fromal

We NBA fans have all been there. 

Our team is down by one point with the final seconds of a crucial game ticking away slowly as the shot clock continues its maddening march to zero. We stare intently at the television and hope that the ball somehow finds its way into the awaiting arms of our team's star player (for me, unfortunately, that just happens to be Joe Johnson). 

As soon as he gets it, we just know that he's going to turn to face the basket, loft up a pretty-looking jump shot and inevitably make the final shot of the game as the buzzer sounds and single-handedly produces more decibels than the mass of fans at the stadium, all watching the arc of the ball in silence. 

The game ends and our hero has added one more clutch shot to the lengthy list of heroic moments in his career. 

But what if I told you that there was no such thing as clutch? 

Surely, this is where half of you are going to click through to the next article and dismiss me as some idiot who just happened to stumble onto a writing gig. But hear me out before you make up your mind.

Chances are, you've never questioned the existence of clutch, but rather assumed that it exists because people talk about it. 

I was one of those people until a few years back when my friend Shashank Bharadwaj dropped a bombshell and told me that clutch didn't actually exist.

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