The clock stopped with 5 minutes, 8 seconds to play in the first quarter of Monday night's preseason game between the 76ers and the Orlando Magic. The game clock itself kept going, but the clock that waited for the first professional three-point basket by Markelle Fultz, and had been ticking louder all the time, finally came to a halt.
Fultz rose up in the left corner after a drive-and-kick pass from Ben Simmons and maybe it's still not the most fluid delivery you've ever seen, but the ball went through the net, Fultz pumped his fist, and the crowd let loose with a mixture of congratulations for the player and pent-up relief for itself.