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Over the last five years, in the final 24 seconds of games his team trailed by a point or two, or were tied, the Hornets have scored 102 points on 86 possessions (as of a few weeks ago). That's an offensive rating of more than 118 points per 100 possession.

Remember that number. 118.

Now, consider that most of the NBA is below 85, and 27 teams are below 100. That's a blowout.

Only the Magic and Blazers are even close (at 107 and 104, respectively). The Cavaliers had LeBron James most of that period, and come in ninth, at 96. The Lakers are 14th at 83. The Celtics rank 20th at 78. Steve Nash's Phoenix Suns are way down at 28th on the list, while the Rockets are dead last, with an offensive rating just about half of the Hornets'.

Yikes.

If neither Steve Nash, nor Amare, nor Barbosa, nor Hill, nor James, etc is a go-to scorer, the Suns having been at 28th over the last 5 years on an offensive powerhouse, and James being the best player in the NBA and possibly the best closer outside of Ray Allen (Celtics being 20th), I don't see how that statistic correlates to reality.

Seems to me like it's just a measure of who randomly came out on the lucky end of a chaotic situation.

(edit: Actually, I believe I read somewhere that statistically, a 2 point game in 24 seconds is about as close as you can get to pure random chance in the NBA - not quite those exact parameters, but fairly close to them)

IMO two clutchest players in the nba now are melo and cp3

Have you watched any close New Orleans games? This is so true, every game I watch where the game is hanging in the balance down the stretch they always execute.