Half Court Shot rests perfectly on rim - Must Watch!

• IggyPride00

  

  I just saw the link to this video on SI.com and it is crazy.
  
  A half time half court shot by a fan landed dead on the back of the rim. There doesn't appear to be any trickery, but I have never seen anything like that and the odds have to be astronomical of this happening.
  
  [video=youtube;B0410b41Puw][/video]
• Azubuike24

  

  Yeah. Should've banked in or bricked.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Weird
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Pretty funny it happened at an NBA game, but I saw it happen twice at varsity basketball practice. We used to joke that you stick on defense, not the ball! Given enough shots, you'll stick the ball.
  
  The emcee did a very good job at playing it cool. He acted like it wasn't a big deal.
• GoPens

  

  If you freeze it at 1:11 it looks like the ball is deformed and sticks to the glass--like it was seriously deflated.
• Ironman92

  

  I've shot a lot of basketball and been around others and haven't seen that before.
• slcoach

  GoPens;1365058 wrote:If you freeze it at 1:11 it looks like the ball is deformed and sticks to the glass--like it was seriously deflated.

  Then how did he bounce it as well as he did?
• Laley23

  

  Had one rest perfectly like this on a FT late in the game at a high school game tonight. Hit the flat part of the rim and bounced straight up and down 5/6 times and then just rested.
  
  It was on a second FT and thus a jumpball. Team hit a 3 and won the game by 2. I would be pissed as a coach.
• Azubuike24

  

  That's understandable with a FT, especially with some arc and the bounces off the rim. It's crazy that with the angle and velocity from half court that this sticks there without a bounce.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Ironman92;1365167 wrote:I've shot a lot of basketball and been around others and haven't seen that before.

  It all depends on the ball's rotation, if you put a lot of "English" on it the chances of sticking become much higher.
• se-alum

  

  Not real.
• gorocks99

  

  [h=2]Must Watch![/h]

  You can't tell me what to do.
• Ironman92

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1366257 wrote:It all depends on the ball's rotation, if you put a lot of "English" on it the chances of sticking become much higher.

  
  That would beca long way to shoot a knuckle ball.
• SnotBubbles

  

  Did he win the prize?
• Azubuike24

  

  Free lifetime tickets to the Atlanta Hawks. He politely turned it down.