Luka Doncic on visiting UCLA Health patients yesterday: “You go there and then you realize that you don’t really have problems in your life at all.”
Bam responds to critics: “Yall are blaming me. You should be blaming the head coach. I was not the one who let me go one on one the whole game until I had 70 then you sent the double. At that point, I had 70 with 9 mins to go. You think I’m not going for it?”
Miami Heat unveil a slew of promotions to celebrate Bam and his 83 point game: \(13 game tickets (Bam’s jersey number), multiple \)0.83 food items, $83 authentic jerseys, Adebayo jerseys with # 83 on them, etc
[Highlight] Luka subs himself out one assist shy of a 50-point triple-double, Lakers announcer: “He’s not chasing numbers.”
Jaylen Brown on hot mic after SGA draws a foul: “That’s not basketball!”
Jaylen Brown “we give the benefit to those who, you know, who necessarily are trying to manipulate the game into their advantage. And I just don’t think that’s basketball. Like let’s just play basketball.”
No. 6 on the MVP Ladder Luka Dončić checks out tonight: 51 PTS 10 REBS 9 ASTS 3 STLS 1 BLK on 17-31 FG 9-14 3PT 8-9 FT
Matas Buzelis on Luka Doncic: “What was my take? … I don’t even know what to say, honestly. He started killing obviously when I started talking to him.”
Asked about the experience: “Probably not to talk to him.”
[Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores his 20th and 21st point of the night by draining the jumper. He passes Wilt Chamberlain for the most consecutive games with 20+ points in NBA History at 127 games.
[Keerthika Uthayakumar]: People will eat up “first player to have 23 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 6 steals & 2 blocks on 59% shooting with 0 turnovers” but want to put asterisks on 2nd-most points in a game in NBA history.
Luka Dončić: “In the 2nd qtr somebody started talking to me, that woke me up … I was surprised, I was shocked … I won’t said what he said, if I said that I would get tech … not very nice”
[Highlight] SGA “ I model my game after Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, And Allen Iverson” bringing back the midrange game
[Highlight] Cason Wallace’s reaction to Payton Pritchard’s buzzer beater
[Owczarski] Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on the criticisms of Bam Adebayo’s 83 points: “I apologize to absolutely no one. Period.”
[Highlight] Anthony Edwards and Julius Randle’s lazy off-ball defense vs Clippers
Spo: “he had 70 plus. The um, going back and forth, all that happened under 2 minutes. He was already 76 deep at that point, and. Damn right. We’re going to go for it. So I’ve seen people say you gotta be a purist. I’m a darwinist. In this league. Really, you can do anything you want.”
Luka after the recent Nikola Jokic interview 51/10/9 on 54/64/89 splits
[Robbins] Trae Young on the Bam Game: “It was kind of weird, them fouling… just to give him more possessions. It was a weird thing. It wasn’t very Erik Spoelstra-like.”
[Post Game Thread] The Denver Nuggets (41-26) comeback from a 20 point deficit to defeat the San Antonio Spurs (48-18) behind Jokic’s monster 31/20/12 triple double and Murray’s 39 points, 136-131.
Erik Spoelstra: “There’s nothing wrong with what [the Wizards are] doing. If you can tank and get a great draft pick, I don’t care… We don’t do that and we have a 14th pick do something that you’re trying to get out of the No. 1 pick.”
Sam Hauser and Jaylen Brown hosted a movie night on their off day. Celtics players were asked who they don’t want to sit next to during a movie.
[Highlight] - The Brooklyn Nets playing some of the worst defense in the history of basketball.
[Highlight] The referee Sha’Rae Mitchell goes down after she hit her head and shoulder on a camera operator, who was in her path, on the court (with a replay)
[Noh] The hidden side of Russell Westbrook: NBA’s most hostile interview is also its kindest teammate
Shai in the 4th Quarter tonight, 14 Points on 7/8FG and 0FTS
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander full postgame interview on the court after breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s record, and he is not amused from the shower he got from his teammates
JJ Redick on Luka Doncic: “He’s playing as well as anyone in the NBA right now, and that’s not being talked about enough, but I’m going to talk about it.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s all-around performance against Celtics: 35 PTS, 6 REB, 9 AST, 2 STL, 3 BLK, +12
[Highlight] Brian Windhorst on the Thunder “There’s rampant Jealousy. That’s when you know you’ve made it, when everybody is complaining about you!”
[Highlight] Jaylen Brown hits awesome fade away jumper to tie the game in crunch time vs the Thunder
Gordon Hayward on Bam: “He’s not a scorer, right? So for him to break Kobe’s record, I don’t think it’s great for the league… for him to shoot 43 free throws and 22 threes… the Wizards too. With all these teams tanking, it kind of makes it feel not legit”
Kon Knueppel leads the entire NBA in 3-pointers made this season with 233. He is a rookie on pace to finish with 290.
Laker starters just scored 137 of 142 points
The longest consecutive point streaks for 1-35 points, all-time and active (updated)
[Post Game Thread] The Oklahoma City Thunder (52-15) defeat the Boston Celtics (43-23), 104-102.
Jokić gets worked up over the claim that ‘the NBA doesn’t play defense’
[Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jaylen Brown exchange buckets down the stretch before Chet Holmgren makes both of his free throws with 0.8 seconds remaining. Payton Pritchard’s last-second 3-pointer is short as the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Boston Celtics, 104-102.
[Highlight] Luka Dončić (51 PTS (17-31 FG), 10 REB, 9 AST, 3 STL) scores the most points as a member of the Lakers to lead Los Angeles over Chicago, 142-130. It’s the 2nd time in Lakers franchise history that multiple teammates recorded 50+ points in the same season (Austin Reaves on Oct. 26).
[Highlight] Payton Pritchard hits his signature buzzer beater against the OKC Thunder to end the first half
Austin Reaves tonight: 30 PTS 7 REB 5 AST on 13⁄20 FG (65%), 4⁄7 3PT (57.1%), 0 FTA, and a team-high +18
[Highlight] Trae Young with the the Rondo fake pass and the easy driving layup (with a replay)
[Highlight] Courtside view of Luka Dončić hitting shots and talking trash to Matas Buzelis.
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander breaks Wilt Chamberlain’s record for consecutive 20 point game with 127!
[Scotto] Grizzlies PG Scotty Pippen Jr. will miss the rest of the season. He’ll undergo a sesamoidectomy to address ongoing discomfort in his right big toe. He’s averaged 10.6 points on 48% overall and 39% from 3-point range, 4.5 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals in three seasons with Memphis.
Nikola Jokic drops a monster triple-double against Spurs: 31 PTS, 20 REB, 12 AST, 3 STL, 2 BLK
[Post Game Thread] The Los Angeles Lakers (41-25) defeat the Chicago Bulls (27-39), 142-130.
[NBA.com] NBA MVP Ladder: 1. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 2. Victor Wembanyama 3. Nikola Jokić
Matas Buzelis: “I’d rather not say what I said. But he said something to me first. So that’s why I had to respond. And I mean, I’m not gonna say what he said either. But I just felt like I responded to what he said.”