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Ask an NBA fan about Payton Pritchard, and chances are they’ll bring up the 2024 NBA Finals, when the Celtics guard buried halfcourt buzzer-beaters in Game 2<\/a> and <\/em>Game 5<\/a> to help Boston dispatch the Dallas Mavericks and raise Banner 18.<\/p>\n Those two heaves were undoubtedly Pritchard’s most famous shot clock beaters. But they certainly weren’t his last.<\/p>\n Over the last two regular seasons since that Finals victory, Pritchard has scored a whopping 307 points on 132 made field goals in “late shot clock” situations, which the NBA defines as zero to four seconds on the 24-second timer.<\/p>\n In 2025-26 alone, Pritchard poured in 203 points on 89 for 204 shooting (43.6 percent) in late shot clock situations, leading the entire NBA in all three categories.<\/p>\n \n