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surprised grant made the cut but horf didnt mb he gets credit for all those single dribble relocation threes

luka with 35-14-13 and game tying threes in both regulation and OT

christian wood with 24-14-6 and 5 blocks

tatum 51-9-5

LeBron since turning 38 years old:

37.0 PPG
9.7 RPG
8.6 APG

Leading the league in PPG + RPG + APG in that stretch. pic.twitter.com/00NN584xHt

— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 17, 2023

thats crazy

Got his re-up just in time.

lolyup

The @Lakers scored 113 points with LeBron James on the court tonight. They didn't have a single turnover during that time.

He's the only NBA player in the last 20 years to have his team score 100+ points with no turnovers with him on the floor in a game.

— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) January 17, 2023

insane

i'm ready to acknowledge lebron is good at this

think we've finally settled the Bron vs Carmelo debate

jokic 36-12-10 on 13/14 shooting, +19, W

using made threes as a filter for stats like this is silly who cares how he scored his 24 points u see it so much now

LaMelo is putting up some special numbers this season! 👀@hornets | #LetsFly pic.twitter.com/W4KWWZX1jz

— Bally Sports: Hornets (@HornetsOnBally) January 19, 2023

Trying to find any way to say “is the only player(s) to xyz”

a generous way to look at it is it’s just creating a comp, not necessarily that lamelo and dame are the best players ever

the athletic did an article the other day about how good of a shot blocker derrick white is and they pulled out this stat “block percentage” (without explaining what it was) in which derrick white is a better blocker than *checks notes* giannis, bam and dray

from bball reference: "Block percentage is an estimate of the percentage of opponent two-point field goal attempts blocked by the player while he was on the floor."

derrick has been a prolific shot-blocking guard his whole career, he's in a class with d wade and danny green

The Timberwolves record this season is 28-18 when you remove the 3rd quarter from your calculation of the final score.

— jakes graphs (@jakesgraphs) January 19, 2023

lol

maybe they can form a new league where there's a second 15 minute break after halftime before the fourth quarter

👁️ After scoring 46 vs. LAC last night, LeBron James has become the first player ever to score 40+ against all 30 teams in the NBA.

Other players still have some opponents to check off the list ...

(data via @stathead) pic.twitter.com/W03JTWYEbh

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) January 25, 2023

extremely wild to me that harden hasnt cooked his old team for a 40 piece yet

Too busy scoring in the clubs.

is harden even capable any more? hasnt scored more than 35 this season and has only scored over 30 three times total

honestly would be surprised if he’s even been on the floor for more than 1 game vs houston since leaving

that may be true yeah

dame 60-7-8-3, 21/29 fg, 9/15 3pt, 9/10 ft

thats his fourth 60pt game, crazy

fourth 40+ game in the last 8, don't know who the last person to do that was

prob like luka a couple weeks ago or something

yeah haha

harden had five 40 point games in a row in 2019

luka had 3 50 point games in 5 games recently lol

#thatwasthejoke

Different era blah blah blah but damn Wilt

Players with multiple 60+ point games, NBA history

Wilt Chamberlain 32
Kobe Bryant 6
Michael Jordan 5
Damian Lillard 4
James Harden 4
Elgin Baylor 4

28 players have 1

— Jay Cuda (@JayCuda) January 27, 2023

his stats are truly comical

they say he was tall

not to mention his stats off the court (sex)

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/10nbau4/memphis_grizzlies_scorekeeper_posting_fraudulent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

dang, didn't watch the plays in question but that reads like a legit scandal if this gets picked up by the athletic. I've been expecting a fair amount of this sort of thing with sports betting legalized.

a bunch of knowledgeable NBA heads have more or less said that the vast majority of that was overblown

Giannis with 50 points in 30 minutes

said that the vast majority of that was overblown

that dismissal would be more convincing if those "knowledgeable NBA heads" effectively addressed the huge discrepancy between his home and away block/steal stats. did they?

let me help you:

I watched every block by Jaren Jackson Jr. in slow motion from alternate angles to investigate the NBA Reddit thread claiming the Grizzlies scorekeeper is "posting fraudulent numbers."

But only 3 of his 66 home blocks are incorrectly labeled, a completely insignificant amount. pic.twitter.com/84ZiE1rPVD

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) January 28, 2023

1. Thread: THE JJJ FILES

I just watched all of JJJ’s 66 blocks in Memphis this year.

Here are my findings
1. JJJ might be the top rim protector on earth.
2. Of the 66 blocks, at least 60 are clearly blocked by JJJ
3. 3 to 5 are questionable
4. 2 are kinda sus (here they are) pic.twitter.com/3n5rYp6Zgz

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) January 28, 2023

is kirk goldsberry a knowledgeable nba head?

1. Thread: THE JJJ FILES

I just watched all of JJJ’s 66 blocks in Memphis this year.

Here are my findings
1. JJJ might be the top rim protector on earth.
2. Of the 66 blocks, at least 60 are clearly blocked by JJJ
3. 3 to 5 are questionable
4. 2 are kinda sus (here they are) pic.twitter.com/3n5rYp6Zgz

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) January 28, 2023

lol

yes kirk knows what he is talking about

my sense is that NBA scorekeeping is much better regulated now than back in these days:

https://deadspin.com/an-assist-for-nick-van-exel-how-an-nba-scorekeeper-coo-30967240

Wait what https://t.co/7QQONcEt4I

— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) January 31, 2023

In 2015-16, Stephen Curry shot 43.8% on pull up 3-pointers, a percentage that has never been reached by any other NBA player since tracking shots started. This season, Steph is shooting 47.1% on pull up 3s. #rstats: https://t.co/qtx1v5AasF pic.twitter.com/whr4NNMoQD

— Ramiro Bentes (@NbaInRstats) January 30, 2023

for anyone interested there’s an explanation towards the beginning of the new windhorst podcast with kevin pelton about how stats are recorded in the NBA. that reddit post about JJJ was implicitly based on the premise that one guy in the arena decides all the stats (as is the case in baseball) but it turns out that’s a faulty assumption