Sportscenters' fakakta stats

Today is the anniversary of Wilt’s 100 point game.

 

Cmon, work in something tying him to Thaddeus Young.

 

Both Wilt and Thaddeus started their NBA careers In Philadelphia.

 

Devon Booker is the 3rd youngest player in NBA history to score 4,000 points (Kevin Durant, LeBron James)

 

Magic Johnson won 3 Championships before he turned 27, LeBron won none before he turned 27.

 

In 1985, USC took a 2-0 lead at Syracuse before Syracuse went on a 102-66 run to end the game. Stats.

 

It was worse before. Look through the Elias baseball books in the '80s. That's when you would get the, "Batted .300 in night games played on a Wednesday" stats that were absolutely meaningless.

 

Come again, now?

 

And we had another one Saturday. Coach K surpassing Pat Summit for D1 wins. Never mind the difference in genders, it's a record, right?

 

That's the kind of thing that would have been a bullet point at the end of a story 10 years ago. And that is fine. It's a bit interesting.

Somehow this stuff became worthy of three minutes of broadcast time with a panel of four analysts breaking it down.