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The History of the Shot Clock
In the early 1950s, during Pro Basketball's infancy, there was no shot clock. Dolph Shays says this problem of players running time off the clock by just dribbling the ball around can really be summed up in a 1950 game between the Fort Wayne Pistons and the Minneapolis Lakers. "I mean, the game stunk. It was boring. It was stupid," he said.
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