HOOPS STATS in the new era

VJ edgecombe 34 pts on 13/16 shooting. third most points in an NBA debut all-time, the most since wilt chamberlain in 1959

wemby: 1 million dunks (nba record)

Rip old stats thread

Wemby 40-15 0 tos first time since wilt or one of those old bigs

luke kornet 3 fouls, one of them flagrant, in his first 4
minutes on the court with a new team. wondering if anyone's ever topped that.

SGA 55-8-5-2-1, 23 of those points at the line

Thunder 1st team ever to open the season with b2b 2OT games

I was wondering how often any teams has played b2b multiple OT games...Spurs somehow played two triple OT games in a row in Dec 2014, which was the only time that happened since the Baltimore Bullets of 1951

aaron gordon 7/7 from three in the first half, tying the all time record for most 3s in the first half without a miss

jokic 33-15-16-3

Tonight was Nikola Jokic’s 78th career game leading BOTH teams in points, rebounds and assists.

That’s the most such games by any player since the 1976 NBA-ABA merger, 10 more than the next closest player (LeBron James - 68).

crazy

Timberwolves Defensive ratings stats on/off for Gobert are crazy, either second best in the league or so far beyond the worst you need the hubble telescope to see it

With Gobert (247 min): 118.1 ORTG, 109.4 DRTG, 8.7 net rating
Without Gobert (107 mins): 120.1 ORTG, 144.2 DRTG, -24.2 net rating

144.2 is unfathomable. and that sample size isn’t that small

it's been interesting, watching Rudy Gobert 100x more than I ever would have in a lifetime. He's a singularly weird and great and terrible and frustrating player. And almost everything he really does well are the types of things that are not suited to be appreciated in the social media highlights era, and everything he's terrible at sticks out like a sore thumb.

like a combination of a defensive savant and a guy that seems like he's seeing a basketball for the first time in his life.

sometimes the way he drops an easy pass as if he has two canoe paddles for hands it's like...i don't even know

i think ive said this before but best seats i ever had at a game was like 8th row and suns were playing jazz. seeing gobert at like eye level was so shocking. on tv he looks like a normal skinny tall nba player but he would barely be bending over and his hands we're like at his shins, shoulders way more broad than it seems, then he'd put his arms out wide and i have no idea how anyone completes a pass or gets a shot off in his vicinity. ive seen shaq with pretty good seats, and it was even more alien than that somehow. but i do remember how clunky he was on offense, just no feel or touch. i still think the most unlikely shot in nba history is that game 7 shot clock running down fadeaway to help put the nuggets away a couple years back.

zach lowe, nate duncan et al have been noting that it looks like he’s slowing down in terms of being able to move his feet and contest shots at the rim

yeah I mean he's at the age where he's not going to get better

he also had that one bizarre outburst against the Lakers in the playoffs last year where he scored 27 points and looked incredible on offense for one day

that was wild

i think ive said this before but best seats i ever had at a game was like 8th row and suns were playing jazz. seeing gobert at like eye level was so shocking. on tv he looks like a normal skinny tall nba player but he would barely be bending over and his hands we're like at his shins, shoulders way more broad than it seems, then he'd put his arms out wide and i have no idea how anyone completes a pass or gets a shot off in his vicinity. ive seen shaq with pretty good seats, and it was even more alien than that somehow. but i do remember how clunky he was on offense, just no feel or touch. i still think the most unlikely shot in nba history is that game 7 shot clock running down fadeaway to help put the nuggets away a couple years back.

― Spottie, Friday, November 7, 2025 1:07 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this last part was unnecessary and needed to come with a trigger warning

lol im sure like the lebron game 7 block for me, i just have to avert my ears/eyes when it gets shown or talked about

luckily rudy gobert highlights dont get much burn

Victor Nonga Wembanyama-de Fautereau-Vassel tonight:
38 pts (including 6-9 from 3, 10-10 from the line), 12 rebs, 5 asts, 5 blocks, 1 stl (as a treat)

also killed nik vucevic in public and no police arrived on the scene, very hard to do

grayson allen 42-2-4-3 in 28 minutes (10 3s)

jokic was 16/19 from the field tonight for 35 points, 15/17 from 2 point range. (at least one of those misses was a missed tip-in/OREB.)

he’s now shooting .786 from 2 point range for the season

Victor Nonga Wembanyama-de Fautereau-Vassel tonight:
38 pts (including 6-9 from 3, 10-10 from the line), 12 rebs, 5 asts, 5 blocks, 1 stl (as a treat)

also killed nik vucevic in public and no police arrived on the scene, very hard to do

I paid 500 to sit on the 4th row and witness this. Worth every penny. Sorry Vuc! RIP.

hell yeah

money well spent

Jokic so far in November:

- 32.0 PPG
- 12.0 RPG
- 12.0 APG
- 73/48/85 splits
- 81% true shooting
- +72 plus-minus
- 5-0 record

He’s the first player in NBA history to average a 30-point triple double on 80% TS over a 5+ game span

comical numbers per usual. also good timing for he and murray/gordon to be so hot while his bandmates (braun, cam) try to remember how to shoot again

dece

what is the deal with cam johnson, he has to be injured right? must admit i haven't watched much of him since he went to the nets but even the suns version was far superior to this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5nYQmOW0AAbo8B?format=png&name=medium

speaking of curry 46-5-5-2 on back end of road b2b against a top 5 defense

8/9 from 2 with 16 FTAs vs a wemby defense is impressive

what is the deal with cam johnson, he has to be injured right? must admit i haven't watched much of him since he went to the nets but even the suns version was far superior to this

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:39 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like he's getting acclimated to what they need him to do. in a shooting slump too, cant imagine it will hold much longer

cam left the game in the first quarter last night with some shoulder issue. not sure if that's been a thing that's been bothering him the whole time or not. he's missed a bunch of open looks and it doesn't really make sense

even tho he was a role player for the suns i feel like there has to be some adjustment involved when moving from "you're one of the top scorers on a horrible team and you can do whatever you want out there and literally nobody cares" to coming into a system like denver's w/ an established hierarchy and shots for role players coming in distinct ways, having actual responsibility, having to play serious basketball etc

he had decent role on those good suns teams

check the running hook shot at 1:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNcAOjK8gOQ

most skilled baller ever

also the b2b deep bankers at 3:10 why not

he was insane last night, i was hoppin mad

a 31-18-14 triple double w/ 7 steals for jalen johnson in utah tonight, sheesh

hawks doing kinda okay without trae, huh

incredible line

He’s looking like vintage bron out there with his ability to run a break and either plow right through you or drop a sweet dime. Praying for his health

Okongwu was 8 for 14 (!!!!!) from three in that game as well

wtf

a 31-18-14 triple double w/ 7 steals for jalen johnson in utah tonight, sheesh

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, November 13, 2025 11:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

these were all career highs, crazy

wonder if thats happened before for a non rookie starter to set career highs in 4 categories

yeah was wondering the same i bet no guy whos gotten starters minutes for 100 games like johnson has ever done it before

or even 50 games

speaking of curry 46-5-5-2 on back end of road b2b against a top 5 defense

2 nights later vs the same team
49-4-2-2

crazy old man

he carried them last night, there really wasnt much of an offensive scheme other than let steph cook, and it worked!

LeBron James’s season debut added a few new names to his all-time list of teammates, so here’s the updated Top 10 for the most teammates played with in league history (per @bball_ref):

Jeff Green - 271 teammates
Vince Carter - 261
Trevor Ariza - 260
Garrett Temple - 259
Chris Paul - 248
JaVale McGee - 245
LeBron James - 245
DeAndre Jordan - 242
Ish Smith - 239
Juwan Howard - 236

I have barely ever thought about Garrett Temple, didn’t realize he’s in his 16th season

must be an exceptional teammate

Steph Noh stephnoh.bsky.social‬

Teams with less than five wins at this point of the season:

2026: 9
2025: 5
2024: 6
2023: 3
2022: 5
2021: 3
2020: 4

Ryan Bernardoni‬ dangercart.bsky.social‬

The league set the record for most great+terrible teams to start last season and is breaking it again this year.

The Era of Parity might apply to transience of title equity season-to-season but not "anyone can beat anyone" in season.

seems like a natural effect of years and years at this point of the bball cognoscenti hammering on the (not incorrect) conventional wisdom that the middle is the worst place to be in the nba and that if you’re not a contender you should be bottoming out. lesson being learned that leveling out the lottery doesn’t really make much difference bc even if the rewards of tanking are highly diluted, they still exceed the rewards of being mediocre to run of the mill sorta bad but not egregious

that and going far into the lux tax has gotten more expensive so only really makes sense if youre a true contender

yeah that’s a big factor

the irony with this year is that so many more teams were supposedly trying to win. i’m thinking that if that trend continues we can expect a few disaster teams each year due to injuries or just roster construction fails.

clippers to thread

and mavs and grizz

lol mavs good luck to mavs

btw only two teams over the 2nd apron this year cavs and knicks and the knicks are barely over so one would think theyll be under by the end of the year so really only one team over the cavs their plan is working

Maxey with 54pts/5reb/9ast/3stl/3blk in 46(!) minutes on the second night of a b2b.

god hes been unreal this year

for sure, why are they playing him so many minutes tho

I just read he's leading the league in mpg by 3 minutes. They don't have anyone else that can really do anything. PG had a really good game so maybe that will help if he can stay healthy.

he is indeed, at 40.7(!) and guess who's #2... VJ Edgecombe

Assume this will tail off at some point but i wonder when the last time someone avged 40 mpg was. Iverson?

just checked, it's monta ellis, did it consec yrs in 09-10 and 10-11 on the dubs. curry's 1st 2 yrs... the league done changed a bit since then

Not good! I assume a rookie is going to hit a major wall playing those minutes.

Iverson played so many minutes. Didn't LeBron average of ton of minutes on those pre-Heat Cleveland teams?

xps

https://dunksandthrees.com/epm/actual

EPM for the season is up

nuggets started some guy named spencer jones tonight — he played 24 mins, shot 0-2 from the field, 0-1 from three, committed 5 fouls, and was a -18

more like spencer nones

he is a tire fire on offense but has a lot of energy and is a really good wing defender. (basically peyton watson 3 years ago.) he fouls way too much though, including on a derozan jumper in crunch time where a stop would have given them a chance to tie. m def 10th man abilities at this point but with 2 starters out they are gonna have to be creative

Teams With The Worst Net Rating In The Clutch For The 2025-26 NBA Regular Season :

1. Washington Wizards — -50.4
2. Charlotte Hornets — -45.7
3. Denver Nuggets — -41.4
4. Boston Celtics — -31.6
5. Brooklyn Nets — -24.9
6. New Orleans Pelicans — -17.1
7. Memphis Grizzlies — -16.5
8. New York Knicks — -14.6
9. Miami Heat — -12.6
10. Milwaukee Bucks — -3.3

dont really want to be parked up there with all those bad teams

gabe vincent +18 in 17 min with 0-0-0 and 1 TO

oops, +17 in 18 min

love those good luck charm stat lines

‪KeithSmithNBA‬ keithsmithnba.bsky.social‬

At about the quarter-pole of the season, the Thunder lead the NBA in Defensive Rating at 104.9.

The Heat are in second place at 111.5.

That 6.6-point spread between Oklahoma City and Miami is wider than the difference between the second-place Heat and the 23rd-place Trail Blazers (118.0)

Just saw NAWs stats for the year:

20/3/4/1/1 on 46/38/86 splits

Had no idea he was playing so well

the kings basically have a g league big man rotation w/ sabonis hurt however zach edey put up 32 and 17 w/ 5 blocks on 16-20 shooting last night, pretty hard to be more dominant around the rim in an nba game than that

just watched the highlights he is very tall

VJ edgecomb averaging 13.8 ppg since opening night everyone stay woke out there

pretty good hes going to be an excellent player, almost guaranteed to be a quality starter good chance to be a lot more

nbacentral

Crazy stat: Mitchell Robinson is currently shooting 17.6% from the free-throw line this season

The lowest single-season free-throw percentage in NBA history was set by Ben Wallace in 2001, when he shot 33.6%.

lol how is that even possible

3-17 on the season, not sure it's an exaggeration to say the knicks could pull a random guy out of the stands and put him at the line in front of 20k people and perhaps get a better performance

heard windy say on the hoop pod that last night was the first time in lebron's career that he finished a game w/o a rebound, block, or steal

was literally just listening to that part. wild

i dont think he scored in the paint either. i lebron-watched most of that game and it was really weird! the whole not coming back to the bench thing so he could chum it up with randoms on the suns bench when JJ is trying to call him over. not even attempting to make moves. had that one where he caught it directly under the hoop and decided to ben simmons kick it out for a three when he couldve easily dunked. looked like a farewell tour game for sure.

Jamal Murray's 52-point game puts the Nuggets into rare company pic.twitter.com/LfTLRpLTk8

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) December 4, 2025

52 on 19-25 from the field and 10-11 from three is absurd

crazy they did it so early in the season

derik queen with the triple double tonight, baby jokic in the house

+4 blocks

seasons not over yet but still pretty good

Keerthika Uthayakumar‬ keerthikau.bsky.social‬

Fun fact: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 32.8 points on 68.6% true shooting, the highest TS% in a 30 PPG season in NBA history.

He's committing 1.7 turnovers, the fewest in a 30 PPG season since turnovers were tracked fully in 1983-84.

flagg 42-7-6 most points ever by an 18 year old

against the jazz, too, wite on wite violence

How much do you think Ainge wants Cooper on his team. Like reoccurring dream level?

balls didnt bounce his way, sad

previous record was 37 by lebron btw

flaggs was an ot game but he had 40 in regulation

the mavs getting the #1 after gifting luka to the lakers is really an all time the nba is rigged moment.

yeah awful stuff

Andre Drummond is shooting 41.2% from 3 on 1.4 attempts per game.

maybe more impressive is that he's nearly doubled his ft% over his career. shot .355 in his first all-star season (2015-16), now up to .650 this season

Pretty interesting career. Feels like I’ve never seen him in a playoff game

good reason for that, hes been in the postseason 4 times, and 3 of them were sweeps. (the 4th? a 5 game 1st rd loss with the lakers)

Oof

He should be able to keep that first round exit streak going this year.

kawhi had 55 tonight, by far his career high

he was also 16/17 from the line, which lowered his season FT% to 97.6% (123/126)

I've always wondered how it is that more guys like curry or nash or korver didn't just randomly get hot one year and shoot >>95% from the line, just one of those weird invisible barriers that seems like it's on the border of human possibility in a game setting. the record is 98% from jose calderon who went 151/154 in 2009, but no other qualifier has broken 96%

23/25/10 for scottie barnes today, only other guy who's put up 20/25/10 in the last 40 years is jokic

16 of those were offensive, which is tied for 2nd all time. pretty wild

It was very frustrating to watch

derrick white 7 blocks vs the jazz tonight tied the record for a guard

one of the greatest shot-blocking guards ive ever seen, up there with d wade and danny green

luka shooting 32% from 3 on 11(!) attempts a game, some signs of not giving a shit, which considering the lakers roster isnt totally unfair

lakers getting luka is some real monkey's paw shit

lakers fan: 'i wish for one of the best players in the nba to magically arrive in our lap (like always)'

*cue supercut of luka petulantly whining to the refs while the opponents get an easy fastbreak layup*

all those offseason dreams of a new leaf turned like tears in the rain

no u dont understand, look at his new training regimen, hes serious this time

i tip my cap to him for losing weight and then proceeding to play basketball slightly worse than he has before

in dallas they worshipped him as the heir to dirk, now hes just some guy in la, sad

and he didnt want to go there he was happy being the new dirk

the lakers without reaves have to have one of the worst rosters in the NBA, and in particular it's hideously constructed around luka specifically. we know from dallas that luka is good at playing with 3 point shooters, rim runners, and secondary ball handlers. well, the lakers last night played the following guys: lebron, jake laravia, smart, ayton (starters) + vanderbilt, jaxson hayes, and nick smith jr. the best shooter is laravia? the best rim runner is hayes? the best secondary ball handler is old lebron? it's horrific and a massive downgrade from dallas

too bad reaves cant defend at all because otherwise hes a great fit with luka

prob a better fit than kyrie or brunson in the #2 spot because hes better off ball, tho prob not actually better better since theyre better players, but tbf he is having an insane season currently

kyrie and brunson are bad defenders too and they worked but its still just not ideal to have two bad defenders in the mix

with the right mix of supporting players it can at least get you to the finals, tho i'm not sure i'd say reaves is better than kyrie. the thing w/ the lakers is that the new ownership group *should* make them a lot better but for the foreseeable future they're stuck in this cockamamie scheme where jeanie buss is still running the team

meant to post the other day that the highlights of kawhi scoring 55 in essentially three quarters are amazing. he scores like four points at the rim, otherwise it's pure midrange hooping, breaking dudes down and then pulling up with metronomic jumper form, and also shooting three pointers like steph. he shot 12-16 on twos in this game while making, by my count, two shots at the rim the entire night while going 16-17 from the line, he was legitimately treating an NBA game like pop a shot. at one point the clippers' announcer says that kawhi "is one with the basketball gods tonight" and it would be hard to argue otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpSZ09YuVqk

but for the foreseeable future they're stuck in this cockamamie scheme where jeanie buss is still running the team

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Friday, January 2, 2026 2:21 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gonna assume this is just some nonsense and the new owner will do as he pleases but who knows

yea that tends to be what happens cf the cuban situation

kawhi gotta have the most workmanlike 55 in the history of the league there

no, it's not the same. sam amick reported that jeanie is written into the sale agreement as governor of the team for the next five years. now, whether they um, empower her to change things... i guess we'll see but the cuban thing was not written into the sale agreement of the team and was not real and thus he got pushed out instantaneously. they have talked about this on the hoop collective podcast

Per a team source, Buss’ agreement with Walter and the NBA stipulates that she’ll remain the team’s governor for at least the next five seasons.

new guy can just appoint someone super governor

in all seriousness if hes signing the checks he untimely he can do as he pleases as to whether he wants to have a big fight over it or if she wants to have a big fight over it or what there agreement really is who knows

totally speculation but letting her be the figurehead go to the league meetings and so forth while he incrementally builds basketball operations out in his vision would make a lot of sense as far as doing a gradual handover, one thing that could tell us which was the wind is blowing is pelinkas status does he stay is someone installed over him etc

my point is just that there is some sort of awkward/messy/abnormal transfer of power of the organization happening that is going to coincide with, at the very least, one crucial offseason when it comes to building out the roster around luka, and could last as long as the rest of his contract there, which is effectively this season and the two after that. or, we take the lakers at their word, and this same front office is going to be running the team for the rest of luka's prime

yeah true

maybe they can just get pelinka to scam them some more players, he should be kept on for scamming purposes

i agree w/ you about pelinka. but he signed a contract extension in april, so unless this season just completely collapses, like not making the play in or something, i'd have to believe that it's still gonna be this jeanie/pelinka group running things this offseason

yeah prob unless i guess there is some understanding otherwise with the new guy, must say that jeanie firing her brothers on day one was incredible stuff, the league will miss the buss family when theyre gone last of a dying breed

cuban made himself the face of the mavs in a way that was unusual, but he only owned the team for like 20 years. the buss family and the lakers are a much different thing. i could definitely envision a scenario where jeanie was like "we will only sell the team if i can run it for five more years" and mark walter decided that the lakers were such a valuable property that he would go along w/ it even under those terms. i mean, that's the subtext of jeanie's governance being written into the agreement, imo. you're right obviously that we'll see whether he decides to effectively shank her or whatever two years in if the team stinks

i personally would not pay ten billion dollars for a toy i was not allowed to play with for five years but then again i dont have ten billion dollars i only have nine

if im jeanie do i really need to be running day to day operations or do i just want to go to the office sometimes hang around the lakers and fire my brothers

Keerthika Uthayakumar‬ keerthikau.bsky.social‬

Fun fact: 421 NBA teams have gone 20-11 or better in their first 31 games over the past 30 seasons.

This season’s 20-11 Lakers are the ONLY team on that list to post a negative net rating (-0.6) in those 31 games.

you really shouldn't be employed by an nba GM if you've gone into the season with deandre ayton and jaxson hayes as your centers. immediate disqualification

it seems like his plan was to scam the mavs out of luka, wait lebron out, and then just figure the rest out later

i do think the unplanned acquisition of luka for AD probably threw a wrench in their roster-building plans but you can't excuse the overall number of bad players in their rotation.

jaylen brown 50pts on 26 shots

wasnt just going nuts from 3 or the line either

guarded kawhi too

Automatic @automaticnba
4 minute scoring droughts this season:

15 — GSW
14 —
13 —
12 — IND
11 — ATL, SAC
10 — UTA
9 —
8 — NOP, ORL, PHX
7 — CLE, DET, LAC, MIL, NYK, PHI, TOR
6 — CHA, CHI, DEN, MIA, POR, WAS
5 — HOU, LAL, OKC
4 — MEM, SAS
3 — BOS, DAL
2 — BKN, MIN

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-d3ac5W4AAGyiN?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

keyonte on a nice heater wonder if hes figured something out or if its only a heater

as the graph clearly shows, lebron lives in his shadow at this point

i generally enjoy these kinds of presentations aesthetically but i legit cannot determine who is behind embiid. jamal?

yeah that’s jamal

paolo looks sullen down there

lukas killing his efficiency via hoisting

he’s having an epic hoisting year

you look at their roster and it’s hard to make the case that he should pass…

pretty impressive that in the year of our lord 2026 the 3 dudes setting the standard at the high end here along with shai are Steph, KD and Kawhi

dyson daniels hit a three today

now 7-64 on the season

He’s been so hesitant this season

Meanwhile kennard has the best 3 pt % in the league. He and NAW are were great pick ups

I should really read my post before hitting submit

cooper flagg 49 points most by a teen

The Hornets conclude the month of January with a point differential of +151, tied for the highest point differential in a calendar month in NBA history (Dec. 2010-11, Miami Heat).

…what?

they are cookin. pretty fun to watch

second all time??!!

that cant be right

it’s from the official hornets twitter account

their PR account that is. bunch of mutuals follow them

Genuine question, is this supposed to say point differential in road games? I just did the math by hand and got a different total for the Hornets in January, and also... https://t.co/yuih8FgWyC pic.twitter.com/axYASYfC5W

— The Thing (Ain't Going Nowhere) (@McKnocker77) January 30, 2026

ah well nevertheless

mcknocker bringing the facts as usual

Jarrett Allen 40-17-5-2-4 in 30 minutes???

what

im watching the highlights clingan is in hell

and allen is beating the whole trailblazers down the court you could say hes trailblazing

who knew he was such a trend setter

22-16-15 for jalen johnson vs utah tonight after putting up 31-18-14 on them earlier this year

Bad stat of the day. Ace Bailey has shot 44 ft in 44 games

nikola jokic passes oscar robertson for 2nd place on the all time triple-doubles list

speaking of triple dubs, steph castle tonight against the mavs:
40 pts (15-19), 12 rebs, 12 assists, 3 steals, 1 block in 32 minutes

only spur to get a 40-pointtriple double: david robinson

Wow

wemby 40-12 in 26mins

37 in the first half, too. 23 points in the first six minutes. just blitzed the star-less lakers until they collectively gave up.

for any fans of vorps and schnorps and good website design this was just overhauled today and looks great

https://databallr.com/

kon is leading the league in total threes made

kon academy

kon man

kontian ethics

https://databallr.com/

damn this is pretty nice

In the team total stats you can sort to remove garbage time stats... don't think I've seen that on espn.com lol

jaylen brown second in the nba in usage, third on his own team in time of possession

do not look at on/off data

i have seen it and needless to say do not care because its not real, i mean do people think if the celtics benched jaylen brown then the team would be +15 from this point on, if not then what is the point of said data

that’s not the point of it no but I’m just teasing anyway

WHO leads the league in off the dribble 3P%??? pic.twitter.com/kclRaBRiBr

— ³ 💙 (@KingaHarts3) February 26, 2026

the hart thing is obv small sample size theater, but sharing this mostly for anthony edwards. sheesh

ant turing into an elite shooter is wild stuff, his shooting fell apart in the offs last year but maybe its more robust this year

that’s not the point of it no but I’m just teasing anyway

― comrade jhøsh (k3vin k.), Friday, February 27, 2026 9:54 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

im assuming you watched the same "nerd sesh" video i did, disappointing stuff just repeating on off numbers like theyre gospel, derrick white is amazing hes always been like this (*except when he was on the spurs), tbf expecting a nerd to attempt to understand what numbers mean is prob a bridge too far

lagoon you’re getting very touchy it was just a joke! JB is really good, the MVP stuff is a little silly and that’s why everyone’s making content about it, just part of the cycle

his on-off numbers while pretty eye catching are mostly a product of the celtics depth and lineups they play which is partly credit to mazz, no one other than the most literal chart readers thinks he’s not a good player

honestly i dont think theres much logical explanation for how the celtics are +5 with jb and +15 without him, the +5 is about what youd figure, the +15 is just nonsensical, some of it is theyve rested jb 6 times against bad teams and went 5-1, but still think its prob just some weird heater

yeah +15 is an insane number there’s got to be some funny business going on under the hood

derrick white is amazing hes always been like this (*except when he was on the spurs)

wrong, he was awesome on the spurs

was referring to the stats the guy in the video was talking about fwiw

oh, i didn’t watch that

yeah i mean i didnt post it tbf i just referred to it

true true, my bad

celtics broke the league efg% record tonight with an 80.8

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDAL1hIasAALb7S?format=png&name=small

hes p good

Bam Adebayo tonight:
- 83 points, 2nd-most in a game in NBA history
- 36 made FT, most in NBA history
- 43 FTA, most in NBA history
- 22 3PA, tied for 3rd-most in a game in NBA history

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 10, 2026 7:51 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

‪NBA Stat‬ nbastat.bsky.social‬

Bam Adebayo and Simone Fontecchio combined for 101 total points, becoming the 6th duo in NBA history to reach 100 points in a game.

It's the only duo to achieve this feat without Wilt Chamberlain being part of it and the only one since 1962.

simone fontecchio will forever be remembered in the record books for this amazing feat

remember that guy fuckin uh simon focaccia

He also played with Wilt in 62 right

bam cibattabayo

great day for Italians in sports yesterday

He also played with Wilt in 62 right

― symsymsym, Wednesday, March 11, 2026 11:21 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahah that was gonna be my joke that simone fontecchio sounds like a 1950s syracuse nationals player before the league was fully integrated

in my mind Fontecchio looks like Pablo Prigioni, who of course was a time traveler from the 1950s NBA

I have an early childhood memory of Bernard King scoring 50 one time? For Golden State? Am I dreaming this?

I just looked it up - Bernard King scored at least 50 points EIGHT times lol

the first time he did it i was 7 years old, and he was playing for GSW. his FG% was 80%

yeah he was headed to alltime great status before he blew out his knee

Clippers shot 63% last night and Wolves shot 60%. Broadcast team was talking about rarity of both teams shooting 60+, but I didn't catch the deets and don't know how to look up how rare it is. But must be pretty rare?

kawhi had 45-5-5 on 15/20 fg i believe and continues a pretty incredible season even tho it seemed like he came out of the gates slow to me

Joel Embiid has now officially missed as many regular season games as he has played in his career. #sixers

Games played: 485

Games missed: 485

rip big man

the atlanta hawks of player availability

lol

lmao

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Luka 60-7-3-5

that’s too many

bro is ballin during this 8-game win streak

44-9-5-3
35-8-4-2
31-11-11-2
51-10-9-3
30-11-13-1
36-6-4-2
40-9-10-1
60-7-3-5

VJ 38-7-11-2

(vs the kings, but still)

getting his summer league reps in early

i love end of season madness. max raynaud 62 points in his last two games

fantasy hoops is so specific bcuz the final 4-6 weeks of the fantasy season and the fantasy playoffs are basically a different league. it’s like a TV show that changes its cast every season, after the all star break you gotta get familiar with the new cast members. GG jackson is a recurring guest star

yup. randos start putting up top 10 player numbers

lol our dudes

Underdog @Underdog 8h

Rookies with back-to-back 30 point games over the last 5 years:

Victor Wembanyama
Paolo Banchero
Brandon Miller
GG Jackson II
Cooper Flagg
Jalen Green
MAXIME RAYNAUD

IHart
9-20-10-2
In 25 mins

jokic 23-21-19, 3 straight 14-14-14 games and 2 straight 15-15-15
jamal murray 53pts

Keerthika Uthayakumar‬ keerthikau.bsky.social‬

Raptors went on a 31-0 run tonight against the Magic, the largest unanswered scoring run by a team in the 30 seasons that we have play-by-play data.

The previous NBA record was the Mavs' 30-0 run vs Thunder in December 2023.

Tim Reynolds @ByTimReynolds

There have now been 81 games this season decided by 30 or more points.

A new NBA single-season record, topping the mark of 80 last season.

point inflation in the nba correlates with climate data, makes u think

cooper flagg averaging 48ppg in april (2 games)

too many points imo

more like cooper hogg (hogging all the points)

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lol

celtics tied the record for made threes in a game with 29 tonight they now share it with the celtics (and the bucks)

mike brown is a better coach than thibs

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seems like playing a more normal rotation should pay dividends in the offs but we'll see

the net rating changes between the two seasons are so small that i'm not really convinced they're examples of anything beyond stuff out of the coach's control i.e. the team having another season together, the league being really bad this year, randomness, inertia etc

they had a better net rating while playing their starters less

yeah and i think if you had just given the knicks no coach or like hired a knicks fans out of the stands you'd probably have gotten the same results

seems unlikely

idk! "play the starters a little bit less" was sort of like "a chimpanzee could come up with this solution" of NBA problem solving

sure but they played them less and got better

yeah, kinda

firstly +2.4 isnt nothing it represents over a third of their net rating and second they did it while cutting their starters minutes significantly

during a year when 1/3 of the league was openly not trying for like half the season, i just think there's lots of noise in those numbers that could be attributed to any number of things that have little or nothing to do w/ the knicks' coaching

it is true that any number of things happen every season

knicks were 4-14 this season against boston, detroit, cleveland, okc, san antonio, denver... maybe mike brown missed some of those games

beating the best teams is hard especially when youre not as good as them

and one would think that perhaps good coaching could help overcome such difficulties

would one

i would genuinely actually love to see someone run all the net rating stats this year but just erase any games involving

wizards, pacers, nets, jazz, kings, grizzlies and then post-asb any game involving the bucks, bulls, warriors

would be much more valuable than what we get right now looking at season long numbers this year w/ no context

think yall are forgetting that the knicks are the 2026 nba cup champs which is the only thing theyve won in 50 years therefore mike brown is a knicks hofer

funny thing is its very likely that the knicks will lose to the celtics in the second round this year when they beat them last year and everyone will take the opportunity to say that thibs was better because its against the law to acknowledge that the entire celtics roster was injured last year

on cleaningtheglass which filters out garbage time, which there’s a lot of when you play the bottom feeders, the knicks net rating went from 5.2 last year to 6.1 this year, so to jordan’s point a smaller adjusted increase than the raw totals, then again their improvement on defense is pretty legit and maybe has something to do with playing the starters less lol

tom haberstroh kinda reading my mind ... knicks not looking funky by this measure

NEW TOM THE FINDER POST: Which team dominated vs. non-tankers?

I ran the numbers.

One team stands above the rest. pic.twitter.com/PvEClbI42A

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) April 13, 2026

instead he is concerned about...

here are some teams that look underwhelming by this measure.

Minnesota. Yes, they’ve reached the Conference Finals in the last two seasons, but I don’t blame you if you’re skeptical of their viability this time around. Anthony Edwards’ knee is acting up and the team hasn’t risen to the level of their opponents. They’ve actually registered a negative point differential vs. A-League opponents, a number that is drowned out by their 20-6 +13.2 MOV mark against B-League opponents. That’s quite the swing.

Philadelphia. I haven’t had them on my title tiers for weeks. Though I hadn’t run this analysis before I made that determination, I feel better now for leaving them off the list. A 21-34 (.382) record against A-League opponents obscured by the 24-3 record against the teams trying to league? Yikes.

Cleveland. Gulp. I talked about them on Russillo last week. I wish they played better down the stretch to validate this post.

Charlotte. Though they have a positive point differential against A-League opponents, the team is seven games below .500 against those foes. That incongruity makes me nervous about their play-in. Still, Buzz City is faring just as well or better than the East outside the top four.

oddly satisfying to see denver’s MOV vs the B league teams, it’s been such a weird year for them

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HHpdKd_bMAE7DsG?format=jpg&name=large

I guess guys like to fuck around with Draymond and find out?

dame lol

Love seeing Derrick White up there with all the rim protecting bigs. my guy

i guess since he rim protects like a center he figured he should shoot like one too

ayooo

saw a mention that as in his last game Harden passed Curry on the all-time playoff scoring list. just feels wrong on so many levels

how is that possible

harden has played in 30 more playoff games??

that doesn’t seem right

guess he is +13 already this year

has he ever missed the playoffs before?

nope

yeah that adds up. don’t think he missed many of those games due to injury either

hard to get to injured when you don’t try that hard

the famous key to success

currently sweeping bluesky: https://www.82-0.com/

fun game! closest i got was 80-2 (after god knows how many tries). obviously on "hoop iq mode" with stats hidden and players in alphabetical order

pg oscar robinson (kings 60s)
sg stephen curry (warriors 10s)
sf kobe bryant (lakers 00s)
pf charles barkley (suns 90s)
c nikola jokic (nuggets 20s)

quite the pull! ive done it a few times and my best is 69-13

lamelo (cha 2020s)
shai (okc 2020s)
tobias harris (det 2010s)
tim duncan (spurs 1990s)
jokic (den 2020s)

sorry this is not a 60 win team this game counterfeit

https://i.postimg.cc/ZKJysw-w4/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-11-35-53-AM.png

paul pierce in the 00s instead of the 10s pushes that into the 70-win range

yeah idk if this team beats that above team lol
https://www.82-0.com/share?id=GhiIRb2dJjN153NtIs4y

didn't work but it's

jalen brunson (nyk 20s)
dave bing (det 60s)
kevin durant (phx 20s)
blake griffin (det 10s)
dave cowens (bos 70s)

record was 65-17

after playing it five billion times yesterday...it's all very based on stat stuffing. 60s Wilt is the cheat code

I finally got to 82-0 with Warriors Wilt, Steph, and Oscar, along with 80s Kings Cliff Robinson and 70s Denver Bobby Jones, who is new to me but had great D stats

so close

https://i.postimg.cc/Vvs1c0SH/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-12-07-00-PM.png

lol that team has zero defense

i feel like they’re trying to make their methodology sound fancy but it’s actually not at all

i dont think a team with cliff robinson should get to be perfect while my team of all timers does not

life isn't fair

i feel like they’re trying to make their methodology sound fancy but it’s actually not at all

the path to winning basketball is to accumulate the most rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks, because those are the stats of basketball

Bobby "the Secretary of Defense" Jones has a great wikipedia page, I'm embarrassed I didn't know him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(basketball,_born_1951)

my other great moment was playing on my phone on HoopsIQ mode and selecting Boston 00s SG Allan Ray, who is not in fact Ray Allen

lol

I was like "I Can't believe they spelled his last name wrong!"

lebron is playable at every position giannis is playable at every position except sg

somehow managed to cobble together a 61-win team out of these guys

pg damon stoudamire (tor 90s)
sg world b. free (lac 70s)
sf terry cummings (mil 80s)
pf chris webber (was 90s)
c mark eaton (uta 80s)

i’m still recovering from imagining lagoons team trying to share one ball

you should get a bonus for creating the most toxic locker room

I keep getting boxed into taking the 3rd or 4th best player on a team for my final selection.

this is a lot of fun! this was my first spin. gonna play this all day

https://www.82-0.com/share?id=65pyBsYjjZWaKTE4rdk8

I did get 80s MJ and 10s Steph on a team to get me to 72 wins.

xp

I wish they would tell you what the optimal choices would have been after the team's built

This one is pretty good:

https://www.82-0.com/share?id=ouoUDTcd8b3QMJVKHSQC

i’m still recovering from imagining lagoons team trying to share one ball

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, June 3, 2026 1:44 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

two greatest passer of all time on there

Showtime, baby:

PG 1980s LAL Magic Johnson
SG 2020s BKN James Harden
SF 2000s HOU Tracy McGrady
PF 2010s OKC Kevin Durant
C 2010s DET Blake Griffin

I just went 72-10, think you can go 82-0?

https://www.82-0.com/share?id=SgnCaGX88Cf5DhwgwnnV

Not much defense there, lol.

im going for worst possible lineup rn, got a 14-win season in there but i think i can do better (worse)

I just went 11-71, think you can go 82-0?

Play 82-0: https://www.82-0.com/share?id=95ycFH8f0OmkzWVfgSBc

lol

It's really demoralizing building a super team and then you get the 00s Knicks.

you get 2 re-spins btw, once for decade and once for team

Oh, shit. I did not know that!

It doesn't appear like defense is taken into account at all, because a Trae Young/James Harden backcourt got me to 78 wins.

xp oh wow gamechanger

whoa also just learned you can drag players to other positions to make room for your selections. just moved harden from sg to pg to accommodate pistol pete

That's going to make it too easy!

https://www.82-0.com/share?id=wviyqPBXQMwKyMP0z7cR

78–4. pumped my fist when I spun 60s warriors and only needed a center

think i might switch to classic mode so i can learn who was good in the 60s and 70s instead of just being like ive heard of that guy

or just learning things in general boogie cousins has better numbers than ant davis in pelicans 10s

basically everytime you get the bulls if you dont get jordan you gotta respin era for jordan they do not have any other good guys

been doing hoops iq because it seems like the honorable path but that’s the first time I broke 70

yeah hoops iq is def the real game im just trying classic for research purposes all my previous were hoops iq

60s has crazy numbers but the 70s kinda sucks who knew, they must not have enough stats for 50s

pacers 10s is one of the worst teams oladipo is their best guy just awful, indys bad altogether not sure they have any good guys

almost took out prime lebron in the playoffs somehow, '18 i believe. classic series

yeah pacers have had a ton of good teams just no huge stars kind of an interesting sitch

this game is fun but i wish it had more roster construction logic built in

got another 80-2 but on classic mode this time https://www.82-0.com/share?id=Xq2AvAlk5EHt6oz7iUFU

I wonder if you can only drag and drop positions on the computer version? That does really take the challenge out of it I'd think

what took me a while to see in classic mode is that it's organized by PPG, not overall stats. So Paul George is probably a better 10s Pacers guy than Oladipo, and you can sort each list by position and stat.

the real hoops IQ sicko mode would be no list, just name the guy

Selecting players with roster flexibility is nice move. Gives you the ability to still work in the best players in subsequent rounds.

yeah thats what it should be xp

Let's build a team that goes 0-82! pic.twitter.com/HvxHDJcsl6

— Nerd Sesh (@Nerd_Sesh) June 3, 2026

knew carson would be all over this lol

i started off a team with lebron '10s lakers and apparently you can't fill more than one slot with the same guy because when '10s cleveland came up lebron was off the list

yeah thats disappointing

I mean that makes sense

Got my first 82-0:

https://www.82-0.com/share?id=OcYSNwnWqeOSkVvHycdx

I just went 3-79, think you can go 82-0?

Play 82-0: https://www.82-0.com/share?id=eRONbjyaveI1Z2vqaPfE

this is as low as ive gotten with the training wheels on

zion playing 43 games sorry denied

Imagining Jordan murdering Harden on court as he chokes away a series.

https://www.82-0.com/share?id=rPjJ6O3BbMbKS0PGqQyf

y'all scrubs. go back to the toilet bowl

other team has no shot at a rebound

https://databallr-next-migration.vercel.app/sixrings

like the 82-0 game but it’s composite metrics rather than points/rebounds/assists

not that fun tbh too easy to get 99th percentile

actually it must have been glitching or something for me
earlier it’s good

I assume it doesn't have older players because of certain stats not being counted back then.

seems like it starts with the merger since I’ve seen some late 70s though recent years are heavily represented