The basketball hangs in the air like a painting perched in the Louvre.
Resist gravity. The wide-angle TNT broadcast camera bounces so high that it loses sight. Perhaps less painting than shooting stars. After a while, the next one is gone.
However, unlike those celestial rocks, this land return. When the ball finally returned at an impossible angle and spinned in the net, the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals (the Indiana game inevitably won), it became the latest proof of the theorem that is developing all the playoffs: Tyrese Haliburton has become the top 5 player in the NBA.
