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okafor 26-7 in his first nba game

with 8 turnovers!

lol knew that was coming

my fav is emmanuel w 17-5-9 with 11 turnovers.

CJ mcollum scored 37 and started 5/5 from three.

loss or not, AD with 25-10, including 3/5 on 3-pointers

dear god he can make 3s now

pump fake one dribble drive to the rim

rubio 2-4 3pt

lol

haha

Boogie 4/5 from three

frightening

so glad hoops is back <3 <3 <3

hoops are good man :)

crazy okc @ magic game had
kd 43-12-2 (15-30fg), 54 minutes
russ 48-11-8 (17-36fg), 48 minutes
oladipo 21-13-10 (8-27fg), 51 minutes

also 20-20 for drummond tonight

towns with a crisp 26/12/3 and 0 turnovers

oh and the game isn't over yet, lol

@SherwoodStrauss: Steph Curry now has 108 points in 92 minutes this season. On 62 shots.

maybe expecting a little regression from steph wasn't the best idea

@ESPNStatsInfo: According to @EliasSports, Stephen Curry's 118 pts is the most through 1st 3 games of the season since Michael Jordan's 118 in 1989-90.

bron the youngest to reach 25,000

https://twitter.com/provenself/status/661417386445172736

helpful graph

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine 1m1 minute ago
Kevin Garnett made his NBA debut 20 years ago today ... before 13 current NBA players were born.

drummond 25-29

http://i.imgur.com/9kE24x0.png

lol good policy

Zero is absolutely insane to me

rose hasn't scored double digits in 3 straight games, 1st time in his career

@BenGolliver: Warriors had 28 assists in 1st half. Entering Friday, 20 teams hadn't hit 28 assists in a full game yet this season https://t.co/22SReSbO8h

brow 43-10-3-4-3

rondo with a classic rondo line 14-12-15-4

harden 43 & 46 on back to back nights

kobe 10-48 from deep this season

More than I thought tbh. Old guy seeing the new guys do new things wants to do them too.

drummond 29-27-0-2-3

jeez

Detroit's Andre Drummond is the first player with 135 points and 135 rebounds through his team's first seven games since Wilt Chamberlain in 1970-71

craze

i was thinking about the alternate history yesterday where the cavs take drummond instead of waiters

terrence ross one pick ahead of drummond is also an underrated all-time bad pick

him slipping to 9th is pretty crazy

like super athletic 6-11 guys who can catch the ball arent usually overlooked

he was really bad at uconn but yeah you sort of have to roll the dice with a guy with that kind of body and skills

i think the way the league is going now that athletic 7 footers just aren't going to slip like that over offensive concerns. if a guy can defend the rim and catch lobs off the pick and roll that's an immediately valuable player (i.e. cauley stein)

yeah the tyson chandler model was def under appreciated a few years ago in ways its not now, but still teams have always loved athletic big men!

yeah it was dumb. i mean drummond had major attitude questions right?

i guess i dont remember why everyone was mad at him

June 26 Update: Andre Drummond: The next Dwight Howard or the next Kwame Brown?

Who knows? Really.

Drummond has all of the tools to be the next Howard. At 18, he's already 7 feet tall, 280 pounds. He has a 7-foot-6 wingspan and elite athletic abilities. That's not a basketball player; that's a basketball god.

But he's also the second-youngest player in the draft, and at times it shows. He doesn't always play hard. He takes off plays and sometimes entire games. His skill level (highlighted by his awful 29.5 percent free throw shooting) is a major work in progress. He doesn't always work hard off the court to improve his game. And when you talk to him, he sounds more like a 16-year-old trapped in the body of a 28-year-old giant.

Anyone who says he knows what Drummond will be is a psychic or a fraud. If he lands on the right team, gets the right coaching and is open to dedicating himself completely to the game, he could be the next Howard.

If Drummond is left on his own, isn't forced to develop or just decides that he doesn't really like basketball, Brown isn't out of the question.

More likely, he's somewhere in between those guys. DeAndre Jordan, anyone?

lol the punchline

love how he's embraced the shoulder hair
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/8a94fd5d567af75be6031cf4f21b596c17c8d0f9/c=944-948-3889-3162&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2014/12/21/DetroitFreePress/DetroitFreePress/635548025829382813-AP-Pistons-Nets-Basketball-N.jpg

faried has been absolutely BEASTING for a couple of months now

theyve had a respectable season all things considered

and have some young guys to build with

The Grizzlies are the first team to lose multiple games by 49+ Pts in the same season since the 1992-93 76ers.

John wall two weird trip dubs in a row:

16 13 14 2 0 and 9 TOs (4/17)
29 10 12 3 1 and 8 TOs (11/19)

Bizmack

16 25

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeFNS9jXEAAYg1I.jpg

michael cage!

The Spurs' 23-point lead was their biggest blown lead in a loss in the Tim Duncan era (since 1997-98).

— ESPN Stats

wow spurs are cooked

fuck u, lets fight with vioence

http://i.imgur.com/3MzIeOq.png

that...is not accurate

ha when u google best nba records of all time that page comes up first buuut

http://i.imgur.com/ZdTjyYz.png

lol

how do you know about the shortened 3 pt line but not know about the 72 lakers???

ha i just didnt think abt it!

only 90's kids remember the best nba records

plz stop bullying me

durant with 57 straight 20-point games

https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/713200691804811264

dece

26/12 with 5 blocks for whiteside in 29 minutes for whiteside tonight & i believe he dunked 7 times. looked about as unstoppable as any player outside of stpeh i've seen this year.

Julius randall trip dub 13 18 10

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 2m2 minutes ago
Draymond Green needs 2 blks to become the 1st player in NBA history w/ 1,000 pts, 500 reb, 500 asts, 100 stls & 100 blks in a season

wow thats crazy bron hasn't done that, or Pippen

both missed by like two blocks iirc

lma rounding into form

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfI39ptW4AAJdlV.jpg

yeah he's been a beast

i love his jump shot he just extends his arms way out then flicks his wrist so efficient looks exactly the same every time

Through the first three quarters of games, OKC is plus-232 for the season in the first, plus-107 in the second and plus-208 in the third, better scoring margins than any team other than Golden State and San Antonio. Yet in the fourth quarter, thanks to the Thunder's well-chronicled struggle to hold leads, they're stunningly minus-6, as helpfully tallied by the tireless Micah Adams from ESPN Stats & Info.

As a blazer fan I've often watched lma in beast mode and he can be amazing. not steph-level amazing, but solid consensus nba all-star amazing. the spurs got a hell of a player when he signed with them.

so many salty opinions in the comments

https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/719165202336382976

Parker and Danny Green were outscored 51-6 by the Warriors' backcourt Sunday night.

meanwhile, Paul Millsap just became the first player to record at least 15 boards, 5 blocks and 5 triples in a game since the inception of the 3-point line in 1979-80 in Saturday night's big home win over Boston.

Not convinced that Millsap isn't better than Draymond tbh

draymond the better defensive player by a fair amount but it's prob closer than some people think

Milsapp has been a monster on D recently (and for most of the season tbf). Don't think Draymond is as good a paint/rim protector but he's more comfortable on a switch.

I used to get Millsap and Carl Landry mixed up in fantasy; are their games anything at all similar, having barely ever seen either of them play?

Don't think Draymond is as good a paint/rim protector

― tsrobodo, Monday, April 11, 2016 4:09 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um dray has 112 blocks on the season
http://bkref.com/tiny/TMUxh

... but millsap has more

21 more in about 200 less minutes played

look at all them assists though

pass the ball, paul

lol i read your post with "a" in place of the "as"

Plus that turnover ratio...

Have to imagine he'd average a few more assists if he was kicking out to Steph and Klay instead of Kyle "hard regression to the mean" Korver and Touch me Teague me.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15131139/three-most-amazing-stephen-curry-shooting-charts-find-nba

milsap prob better than dray for most teams but drays better for the dubs

steph's true shooting % rn is .666 pray for him

steph has always been lowkey affiliated with satan tho

steph is huge into the devil

if you rearrange the letters in "wardell Stephen curry" you get "Mephistopheles" it's true

Stephen Curry led all guards with 108 screens that led to baskets.

— Eric Musselman (@EricPMusselman) May 24, 2017