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There’s airballs and then there’s airballs that go over the backboard. Jeremy Lin had the latter in the Rockets-Portland game on Sunday night — and then fell down after a forearm from a Rockets defender.

The good thing for Lin is that despite this shot likely showing up on the NBA highlights’ show, on the stats sheet a miss is just a miss no matter how bad it is.

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