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Lucas: Generations

Shammond Williams made a basket on one of the most memorable, where-were-you-when plays in Carolina basketball history.

Virtually no one remembers he made the basket.

Williams, you see, made a three-pointer against Duke in 1998. Let me be more specific—Williams made a three-pointer after Vince Carter missed a dunk against Duke. Wait, that’s not quite right either. Williams made a three-pointer after Ed Cota threw a pass off the backboard to Vince Carter in the middle of a Carolina second-half blowout of Duke, and Carter missed the jam. Watch the 1:50 mark. Heck, watch the whole thing, because Stuart Scott is on the call:

Now maybe you understand.