Centers with 30+ points and 10+ free-throw attempts per game in a season:

• Wilt Chamberlain (7x)
• Walt Bellamy
• Moses Malone
• Joel Embiid this season

Embiid is the only one shooting 80%+ from the line.

Julius Randle tonight:

27 PTS
16 REB
7 AST
11-19 FG

He becomes the first Knicks player with 10+ 25/10/5 games in a season since 1983.

Blake Griffin this season:

31.3 MPG
12.3 PPG (career-low)
36.5 FG% (2nd worst in NBA*)
31.5 3P% (2nd worst in NBA*)

He hasn’t dunked since 2019.

*(min 10 FGA per game, min 6 3PA per game)

Kemba Walker last 10 games:

21.9 PPG
4.8 APG
43/42/93%

The Celtics have won 4 straight games.

The Nets have won 10 of their last 11 games. James Harden in that span:

27.5 PPG
9.6 RPG
10.9 APG
50/46/81%

Making his case for MVP.

Damian Lillard in the clutch this season:

92 PTS (2nd)
61.4 FG% (1st, min 20 att)
60.0 3P% (1st, min 15 att)
100 FT% (1st)
72.2 W% (3rd)

What time is it?

Lillard goes to a different level when it’s Dame Time this season.

Non-clutch minutes:
🏀 43.1 FG%
🏀 36.5 3P%
🏀 92.2 FT%

Clutch minutes:
⌚️ 61.4 FG%
⌚️ 60.0 3P%
⌚️ 100 FT%

James Harden first game back in Houston:

29 PTS
10 REB
14 AST
8 TOV

He is the 6th player in NBA history to record a triple-double in the first game against a former team.

Most steals in a game without committing a single foul since 1985:

10 — TJ McConnell tonight
9 — Eddie Jones in 1999
9 — Rafer Alston in 2007

Dennis Smith Jr and Mason Plumlee are the second teammates to have a triple-double in the same game in Pistons franchise history.

Donnie Butcher and Ray Scott did it in 1964.

There have been 23 seasons in NBA history in which a player averages 30 points and 10 rebounds.

If the season ended today, Joel Embiid will have the most efficient 30/10 season ever.

Embiid is shooting 52/42/86% (64.6 TS%) this season.

The Jazz have taken 77 more threes than their opponents in their last 4 games.

They have lost 3 of those games.

Joel Embiid is averaging 30.2 points this season.

He’s on pace to become the first center to have a 30-PPG season since Moses Malone in 1981-82.

Triple-doubles on 100% shooting since the three-point era (1980):

• Bo Outlaw
• Draymond Green (2x)
• Russell Westbrook
• Nikola Jokic
• Evan Turner
• TJ McConnell (tonight)

Joel Embiid tonight:

40 PTS
19 REB

It’s his 9th 40/15 game, passing Charles Barkley for most such games by a Sixer since the three-point era (1980).

T.J. McConnell tonight:

16 PTS
13 AST
10 STL (9 in 1st half, NBA record)
8-8 FG

He is the first player to record a triple-double with steals on 100% shooting since steals became official in 1973-74.

What a difference 10 years make.

20 PPG scorers in 2010-11: 20
20 PPG scorers this season: 43

The Suns are 23-11, the 2nd best record in the entire league.

They have won 15 of their last 18 games.

They are 1 of 2 teams in the top 10 in both offensive and defensive rating (Jazz).

This team is for real.

When Chris Paul goes to a new team, that team gets better.

Hornets season
Before CP — .220 W%
After CP — .463 W%

Clippers
Before CP — .390
After CP — .606

Rockets
Before CP — .671
After CP — .793

Thunder
Before CP — .598
After CP — .611

Suns
Before CP — .466
After CP — .677

Nikola Jokic has 50 career triple-doubles. That’s more than

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Bill Russell
Bill Walton
Shaquille O’Neal
Patrick Ewing
Tim Duncan

combined.