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Tyrese Haliburton NBA postseason heroics renew debate. Does 'clutch' play exist?

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Tyrese Haliburton has made the game-winning shot or game-tying shot with less than 1.3 seconds left in regulation or overtime in this year 's playoffs.

The Indiana Pacers star is one of the most clutch shooters in NBA playoffs history.

The NBA began giving out the Jerry West Trophy to the league's top clutch player as measured by the league’s statistical formula.

Measuring clutch performances strictly by game-winning shots is flawed, says Franklin Mixon Jr. , a professor of economics at Columbus State University in Georgia .

Mixon is co-author of a 2013 study “Homo certus in professional basketball? Empirical evidence from the 2011 NBA playoffs’.

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