Joel Embiid is enjoying the best season of his NBA career, and he punctuated it with a riveting highlight Saturday night.
Unfortunately for Embiid and the 76ers, it didn’t count.
With 1.3 seconds left in a hard-fought game between Philadelphia and the visiting Celtics, Embiid took an inbound pass and launched a 70-foot heave at the basket from inside the three-point line in the backcourt. The home crowd erupted when the shot went down, but officials ruled Embiid released the ball a fraction of a second after the game clock had expired.
