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Bulpett: Aron Baynes’ surprising 3-pointers show his evolving game

Aron Baynes had been in the NBA for 1,893 days. He’d gotten into 369 regular-season games and 26 playoff games, and in the 5,699 minutes he played within them, he had made a grand total of one 3-pointer in 19 attempts.

Then in the first quarter of Saturday night’s win over Toronto — day 1,894 — Baynes hoisted two treys and drilled them both.

It was poetry. It was Curry-esque.

“It was super crazy,” said Terry Rozier, “but he works on that though.”

At 5:35, Baynes took a feed from Jayson Tatum and stuck his first 3-pointer since Dec.