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The Elam Ending Would Rob Basketball of Its Drama

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Recently, there’s been a rush of basketball pundits longing to change the game.

After a rash of review stoppages and too many foul shots when teams are late in the game, which admittedly slows basketball finales down, lots of people want to install the Elam Ending into pro and college basketball games.

For those that don’t know, The Elam Ending was created by Nick Elam and used in the TBT tournament this summer.

To boil down what it is, the ending means at the final TV timeout (with approximately 4 minutes left in the game), the clock would go away.