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Random NBA Observations 2013 - 2014
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I've been sitting here for half an hour flipping between sports channels and no highlights from tonights NBA games in sight. I have every possible sports channel you can get on cable. NBA TV is showing 1-on-1 with Ahmad Rashad. Why?! This is bullshyt and why Americans call our TV weird.
Also, I haven't seen much of McLemore but Lamb is going to be a serious player. And for whoever it was saying JV sucks,I did watch a re-run of the game in San Antonio and he was a big part of why Toronto lost, but he killed NY on this home and home. He's going to be really good. Ross has gotten his confidence up now too, he hit 7 threes against NY and looked much better than Shump/Hardaway/JR.
I've been sitting here for half an hour flipping between sports channels and no highlights from tonights NBA games in sight. I have every possible sports channel you can get on cable. NBA TV is showing 1-on-1 with Ahmad Rashad. Why?! This is bullshyt and why Americans call our TV weird.
Also, I haven't seen much of McLemore but Lamb is going to be a serious player. And for whoever it was saying JV sucks,I did watch a re-run of the game in San Antonio and he was a big part of why Toronto lost, but he killed NY on this home and home. He's going to be really good. Ross has gotten his confidence up now too, he hit 7 threes against NY and looked much better than Shump/Hardaway/JR.
maybe because there have been lots of guys who only shoot 3s, and they havent done it
that may be true, but this doesnt seem like something that needs to be heralded like they doing....if all you do is shoot 3s, and you getting bout 6-7 shots a game, you better hit at least 1
The War Report
NewNewYork
Stick to hockey.These azzholes showed OKC and Cle/GS highlights and went back to hockey
KD is not nice
GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
White people dont give a shyt about any of that.
Bilz
Superstar
Well it has never been done before but I really haven't seen anyone making a big deal about it.
Stealth
They know the face and they know the name
KD is such a fukking stat padder god damn!!
him. Biggest stat padder in the league bar none. How that fakkit continues to have so many supporters surprises mei get it's never been done before, but this is one of those 'who gives a fukk' stats to me....maybe i'm just overracting, but everytime they show a hawk highlight, they mention it....guess they gotta say something positive about the hawks
Bilz
Superstar
Espn has been spitting out stats no one cares about for years.
December 30, 2013
At 29, James' Numbers Are Off the Charts
AP
MIAMI — If the number of an NBA player's birthday candles were proportionate to his point total, then Miami Heat star LeBron James would need help putting out the fire atop his red velvet cake.
The four-time MVP turns 29 on Monday, with 21,819 points.
No other NBA player has ever scored more points by that age.
Granted, the youngest-to-score comparisons are a terrible measure because not everyone enters the NBA at 18 like James. It took James 726 games to score 20,000 points; it took Wilt Chamberlain a mere 499. Michael Jordan had nearly 4,000 fewer points on his 29th birthday, neither Kareem Abdul-Jabbar nor Oscar Robertson were even to the 17,000-point mark yet and Karl Malone was still a few games shy of scoring his 15,000th point.
Still, where James is now begs the question: Exactly how high on the scoring list will he be before taking a jersey off for the last time?
He passed No. 30 Gary Payton and No. 31 Larry Bird on the career scoring list last week — in the same game, no less. He'll likely catch Clyde Drexler to become No. 28 sometime in January. It's not beyond realistic realms of possibility that James could be one of the game's top 10 career scorers by the end of the 2015-16 season.
By then, he'll only be 32.
And all the points have come with him often passing up shots for assists. He's currently nine shy of 5,500 of those for his career. Among players who were listed at 6-foot-8 or taller, only Magic Johnson, Scottie Pippen, Bird and Abdul-Jabbar have more.
James often speaks of how he wants to be considered the greatest to ever play the game. The numbers suggest he's got a shot.
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Five things to watch this week:
WEST POWERS: Portland at Oklahoma City on Tuesday night is the last West vs. West matchup of 2013. Maybe that's fitting, since it would seem like there's a real chance of these two being the last teams standing out West when the season ends.
HAWKS REELING: Atlanta was looking like the clear No. 3 team in the East behind Indiana and Miami, before Al Horford went down with another torn pectoral muscle. Facing Boston, Golden State and Chicago this week should offer some clues on how the Hawks plan to regroup.
LOVE ROLLING: Kevin Love has been MVP-worthy over his last 10 games for Minnesota. He's averaging 30.8 points and 14.1 rebounds over that stretch. This week, he and the Timberwolves stay home to see Dallas, New Orleans and Oklahoma City.
STEPH SIZZLING: He's still feared as a shooter, and now Stephen Curry is in another world as a passer. The Golden State star enters the week averaging 23.4 points and 9.6 assists. How many players have averaged that for a full season? Six, none since Tim Hardaway in 1991-92.
GRIZZLIES' CHANCE?: Memphis has four games this week, all against non-divisional opponents. Good thing: The Grizzlies are 0-8 against the Southwest, 13-8 vs. everyone else.
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STAT LINE OF THE WEEK: Chris Bosh's 37-point, 10-rebound night in Portland on Saturday, leading Miami to a win even with James sitting out injured. Bosh's 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left sealed it for the Heat.
At 29, James' Numbers Are Off the Charts
AP
MIAMI — If the number of an NBA player's birthday candles were proportionate to his point total, then Miami Heat star LeBron James would need help putting out the fire atop his red velvet cake.
The four-time MVP turns 29 on Monday, with 21,819 points.
No other NBA player has ever scored more points by that age.
Granted, the youngest-to-score comparisons are a terrible measure because not everyone enters the NBA at 18 like James. It took James 726 games to score 20,000 points; it took Wilt Chamberlain a mere 499. Michael Jordan had nearly 4,000 fewer points on his 29th birthday, neither Kareem Abdul-Jabbar nor Oscar Robertson were even to the 17,000-point mark yet and Karl Malone was still a few games shy of scoring his 15,000th point.
Still, where James is now begs the question: Exactly how high on the scoring list will he be before taking a jersey off for the last time?
He passed No. 30 Gary Payton and No. 31 Larry Bird on the career scoring list last week — in the same game, no less. He'll likely catch Clyde Drexler to become No. 28 sometime in January. It's not beyond realistic realms of possibility that James could be one of the game's top 10 career scorers by the end of the 2015-16 season.
By then, he'll only be 32.
And all the points have come with him often passing up shots for assists. He's currently nine shy of 5,500 of those for his career. Among players who were listed at 6-foot-8 or taller, only Magic Johnson, Scottie Pippen, Bird and Abdul-Jabbar have more.
James often speaks of how he wants to be considered the greatest to ever play the game. The numbers suggest he's got a shot.
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Five things to watch this week:
WEST POWERS: Portland at Oklahoma City on Tuesday night is the last West vs. West matchup of 2013. Maybe that's fitting, since it would seem like there's a real chance of these two being the last teams standing out West when the season ends.
HAWKS REELING: Atlanta was looking like the clear No. 3 team in the East behind Indiana and Miami, before Al Horford went down with another torn pectoral muscle. Facing Boston, Golden State and Chicago this week should offer some clues on how the Hawks plan to regroup.
LOVE ROLLING: Kevin Love has been MVP-worthy over his last 10 games for Minnesota. He's averaging 30.8 points and 14.1 rebounds over that stretch. This week, he and the Timberwolves stay home to see Dallas, New Orleans and Oklahoma City.
STEPH SIZZLING: He's still feared as a shooter, and now Stephen Curry is in another world as a passer. The Golden State star enters the week averaging 23.4 points and 9.6 assists. How many players have averaged that for a full season? Six, none since Tim Hardaway in 1991-92.
GRIZZLIES' CHANCE?: Memphis has four games this week, all against non-divisional opponents. Good thing: The Grizzlies are 0-8 against the Southwest, 13-8 vs. everyone else.
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STAT LINE OF THE WEEK: Chris Bosh's 37-point, 10-rebound night in Portland on Saturday, leading Miami to a win even with James sitting out injured. Bosh's 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left sealed it for the Heat.
Al Horford is the only player in the NBA averaging 18 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 block, 1 steal while shooting at least 50%
