Random NBA Observations 2021 - 2022
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None of those games had Dillon Brooks
People trying to figure if it's talent or synergy.
stepbackj34spud
Top 75 All-Time
Id vote for Embiid for MVP. Easily
50 win team, leading the league in scoring. 30/12/4/1/2 50FG% 37% from 3 82FT%
MVP
he better get that center spot too for all nba
50 win team, leading the league in scoring. 30/12/4/1/2 50FG% 37% from 3 82FT%
MVP
he better get that center spot too for all nba
So playin stats dont count? 
OK, back to who is actually in this thing. Is this considered the playoffs?
It’s actually not considered the playoffs. The league deemed that last year when we were asking about how to classify this. For example, think of the Sacramento Kings. OK, please stop laughing, this is serious. But think of the Kings. Are you done yet? We good? OK. Think of the Kings … thank you. Let’s say the Kings made the Play-In Tournament but lost out on getting the seventh or eighth seed. Legally, their playoff drought would still be active. It’s actually the longest active playoff drought in the NBA. This is the 16th straight year they haven’t made the playoffs. The next longest streak is the Charlotte Hornets, although if they win two games in the Play-In Tournament, that streak will be snapped at five years.
Though this Play-In Tournament is the postseason, it’s also not the playoffs.
Wait, there is a difference between the postseason and playoffs?
There is now. There didn’t used to be, but now that distinction kind of matters. Maybe this is all a pointless semantics game, but once we’re past the 82-game regular season, then we are legally “postseason.” But the league has made it clear this doesn’t count as the playoffs, so the postseason will probably have two meanings. People will still refer to the playoffs as the postseason, but the Play-In Tournament is simply the postseason and not the playoffs. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.
Let’s say the Lakers had made the Play-In Tournament as the No. 10 seed. LeBron James plays, they win the first game against New Orleans and then they play in the second game. Those game totals, those point totals and any other stats from those Play-In Tournament games would not count toward LeBron’s playoff numbers for his career. He’d still be stuck at 266 playoff games and 11,035 playoff minutes played. Even if he dropped 100 points in those two games, it wouldn’t count toward his 7,631 career playoff points. These stats don’t register for the playoffs.
Wait, these stats don’t count?
They don’t. Perhaps the NBA will start counting them as their own leaderboard outside of the regular season or playoffs at some point, but they currently do not. Is Morant the all-time leader in Play-In Tournament points? Technically, nobody is. But he’s played in three Play-In Tournament games (there have been seven total games in the history of the Play-In), and he scored 90 points in those three games. Nobody has come close to that, other than maybe Dillon Brooks — his teammate — who has amassed 58 career Play-In points.
While we can easily go research and find out Jayson Tatum’s 50 points are an all-time high for points in a single Play-In game, that 50-point game doesn’t count toward his official career total of 50-point games. He has four of them in the regular season and one in a playoff game. But that 50-point game against the Washington Wizards to secure the No. 7 seed in the Play-In Tournament last year is essentially on that island from the TV show “Lost.” We don’t know how to get it back, and it has no idea what “4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42” mean. Are those other Play-In scoring numbers? Code to a bunker? Lotto numbers? It doesn’t exist.
Play-In Tournament points exist, but they don’t exist at the same time. It’s like eating food at a stadium or in an airport. Those calories aren’t real and don’t actually apply to your body.
Eventually, the NBA will have these stats readily available, but it’s probably looking to flesh out the history of the Play-In a bit more.
OK, back to who is actually in this thing. Is this considered the playoffs?
It’s actually not considered the playoffs. The league deemed that last year when we were asking about how to classify this. For example, think of the Sacramento Kings. OK, please stop laughing, this is serious. But think of the Kings. Are you done yet? We good? OK. Think of the Kings … thank you. Let’s say the Kings made the Play-In Tournament but lost out on getting the seventh or eighth seed. Legally, their playoff drought would still be active. It’s actually the longest active playoff drought in the NBA. This is the 16th straight year they haven’t made the playoffs. The next longest streak is the Charlotte Hornets, although if they win two games in the Play-In Tournament, that streak will be snapped at five years.
Though this Play-In Tournament is the postseason, it’s also not the playoffs.
Wait, there is a difference between the postseason and playoffs?
There is now. There didn’t used to be, but now that distinction kind of matters. Maybe this is all a pointless semantics game, but once we’re past the 82-game regular season, then we are legally “postseason.” But the league has made it clear this doesn’t count as the playoffs, so the postseason will probably have two meanings. People will still refer to the playoffs as the postseason, but the Play-In Tournament is simply the postseason and not the playoffs. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.
Let’s say the Lakers had made the Play-In Tournament as the No. 10 seed. LeBron James plays, they win the first game against New Orleans and then they play in the second game. Those game totals, those point totals and any other stats from those Play-In Tournament games would not count toward LeBron’s playoff numbers for his career. He’d still be stuck at 266 playoff games and 11,035 playoff minutes played. Even if he dropped 100 points in those two games, it wouldn’t count toward his 7,631 career playoff points. These stats don’t register for the playoffs.
Wait, these stats don’t count?
They don’t. Perhaps the NBA will start counting them as their own leaderboard outside of the regular season or playoffs at some point, but they currently do not. Is Morant the all-time leader in Play-In Tournament points? Technically, nobody is. But he’s played in three Play-In Tournament games (there have been seven total games in the history of the Play-In), and he scored 90 points in those three games. Nobody has come close to that, other than maybe Dillon Brooks — his teammate — who has amassed 58 career Play-In points.
While we can easily go research and find out Jayson Tatum’s 50 points are an all-time high for points in a single Play-In game, that 50-point game doesn’t count toward his official career total of 50-point games. He has four of them in the regular season and one in a playoff game. But that 50-point game against the Washington Wizards to secure the No. 7 seed in the Play-In Tournament last year is essentially on that island from the TV show “Lost.” We don’t know how to get it back, and it has no idea what “4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42” mean. Are those other Play-In scoring numbers? Code to a bunker? Lotto numbers? It doesn’t exist.
Play-In Tournament points exist, but they don’t exist at the same time. It’s like eating food at a stadium or in an airport. Those calories aren’t real and don’t actually apply to your body.
Eventually, the NBA will have these stats readily available, but it’s probably looking to flesh out the history of the Play-In a bit more.
Not really a Kings fan like that just want to see the home squad do good.
staticshock
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It’s Saturday night. Why isn’t the fukk is there an NBA game on national tv tonight??
ALonelyDad
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Don't forget NOLA vs. Grizz NBA TVWarriors vs Spurs NBA TV
Lakerman0834
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And people were saying Costas was wrong
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A 55 point quarter
daboywonder2002
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Brooks been balling since coming back. But you think he's that much of a difference maker?
