2020-2021 NBA Regular Season thread

He makes $9.75M this year. So this is basically like a guy who makes $100K a year being fined $500 and getting a week's vacation plus firm-paid sensitivity training.

 

He's also out for the year injured and will be a free agent at the end of the season. He gets to try to find a new deal as a marginal bench player who just missed a season, and oh-by-the-way hates Jews.

Meyers Leonard is fucked.

 

Funny enough if you showed me a list of NBA players’ names and asked me to pick the Jewish one, I woulda picked the guy named Meyers Leonard.

 

RIP

 

First Vermont Catamount to score in the NBA, ever.

 

Luka Doncic is tied for 11th with Bob Cousy for the most triple-doubles in NBA history with 33.

He just turned 22.

 

Where the hell is "anyone I offended"?"

 

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Oscar average a triple-double during at least one season? And what about Westbrook?

 

Rank Player Trp Dbl
1. Oscar Robertson* 181
2. Russell Westbrook 156
3. Magic Johnson* 138
4. Jason Kidd* 107
5. LeBron James 97
6. Wilt Chamberlain* 78
7. Larry Bird* 59
8. James Harden 54
9. Nikola Jokić 50
10. Fat Lever 43
11. Bob Cousy* 33
Luka Dončić 33
13. Rajon Rondo 32
14. Ben Simmons 31
John Havlicek* 31
16. Grant Hill* 29
17. Michael Jordan* 28
18. Elgin Baylor* 26
19. Clyde Drexler* 25
Draymond Green 25

 

I will say - I thought LaVine was always going to be a soulless gunner type, like a Monta Ellis, scoring a relatively empty 20+ PPG for the rest of his life. This could still be a one-year blip in his 3-point percentage propping up the rest of his numbers - it's not like his DRTG has radically improved - but even still, this version of LaVine is a legit all-star. (It also feels like the 1-in-10, 1-in-100 time this happens, like when a Jason Kidd radically improves his 3-point percentage late in his career, that is then used to justify a wishcasting comparison to every other player of this type improving in a similar fashion.)