“Contributing on defense” i.e. winning DPOY and making all-defensive 1st teams. Dude was not real. Most dominant player ever.

Jordan was nuts, I wish I got to see more of him when he played

Tbf mid 80s was also super high pace

37 ppg on 18 3P% lol he was just getting anything he wanted anyway

was shooting 30 times a night tbf

mid 80s

While playing an incredibly aesthetic game.

“contributing” on defense?

Not to be confused with Michael B. Jordan, I know you were thinking that

Glad they clarified I’m not sure I woulda known who they were talking about :3

It’s a bot post

You may have heard of him.

ya highest ATM is 15-16 Steph at 30.1, that’s the only 30 PPG 50-40-90 season (though KD and Bird were both right behind at 29.9 and 29.1 respectively)

Assuming everything stays the same as right now then yes. Curry has the highest at 30.1ppg with Bird in 2nd at 29.9ppg and Durant in 3rd with 29.1ppg

Also want to add that Curry is a clear 1st on 3p% for his season too with 45% from 3. Not that it matters for a 50-40-90 but that’s damn impressive for a season

He’s sorta the perfect player to break that record. Everybody but him and KD with the shooting touch to be well above 50% on FGs and 90% on FTs shoots too many threes. Even Steph only has one 50/40/90 year due to his volume of attempts keeping him below the minimum FG%

Technically not a 50/40/90, scrub is only shooting 89.7% from the FT line 😂

By a good chunk, and he’s doing it in 3 quarters

Still mind blowing that the Clippers traded him away along with seven 1st round picks. It’s probably the most Clippers thing ever that this was considered an absolute no brainer at the time and in retrospect turns out to quite possibly be the most lopsided trade ever.

He’s had a couple this season but mostly due to sitting out fourths with ²⁸⁄₂₉ points. His lowest scoring I think was 23 vs Dallas iirc.

He’s not hitting 31 points too much anymore though so the consistency merchant is washed in my opinion.

Nov 17 @ New Orleans but he only took 9 shots and made 5. Worth nothing he went ¹⁰⁄₁₀ from the line.

Edit: made 5 not 9

Well JDub is coming back so we could see his scoring dip a bit. The carry job he’s done so far this season has been insane

3 times he did he sat the 4th

Genuine question - why does Giannis keep getting lumped in with Jokic and Shai? He’s at a similar level to Luka imo.

Feel like it’s

1a: Jokic/Shai 1b: Luka/Giannis

This gap is super close though. Much closer the most people on this sub make it out to be.

Eh I think Lukas great, he can explode and take over a game vs shai who imo has an insanely high floor and usually always consistent (don’t google the 3 pointer % in the playoffs this year though lmao)

I got jokic shai at the top. Then Giannis and Luka underneath but on the same level. But it’s not a crazy level difference between them all

MVP race this year is an absolute banger

Luke is averaging 35/9/9

Id say Shai is having a better season, but I dont know about a full level above.

For now yes, it would be a better discussion when the season ends and not 15 games into it.

Thunder flair - check, random mention of Luka when no one asked - check

For all their success Thunder fans still can’t get over the ‘24 Playoffs, and the knowledge that with evenly matched teams Luka cleared their whole roster

shai plays on a significantly better team than Luka and also has played multiple seasons with them for synergy

if you put luka on this OKC team for a few seasons his numbers definitely go up as well

It’s been over a year of that lol

chicken wing sga with his constant cheating scores buckets? wow shocking!

I think the majority of GMs would rather Luka on the team over Shai. Shai’s stats look great but let’s not discount the caliber of players he has around him that Luka doesn’t have.

Pace is lower this season than it was in 87, as are FTA.

87 had a slightly higher pace, and teams shot 30 FTA/100 back then compared to just 25 now

Pace, Fouls and Scoring are all down since the 80’s. You’re thinking of the late 90’s which is more in line with current rates

all those stats are up which makes it insane that he’s only averaging 1.7 TOs a game, and it cant be overstated enough

I thought free throws were down

Fouls are way, way down compared to 20-30 years ago, wtf are you talking about?

Look at per 100 - this is historic currently just above Jordan’s 87 season and slightly below Hardens 18-19

The last pts gimme play I did with him it was something like -700 odds for 25 points. He put up 23. Of all games to bet on, I lose with sga 

Tbf the clippers might be so cursed that even if they had Shai they’d prob still lose

Pretty much when I gave up on the team. I’m not saying I could see that SGA would be this good, but giving up a promising young tall point guard for fucking PLAYOFF P? I just watch lakers games now.

No lol

You are so brave

chicken wing cheater sga is winning in the modern cheating nba game wow!

speaking the truth? chill out MLK lmao youre talking about a game with a ball that has less and less viewers every year

What’s Andrew Wiggins got to do with this?

He already has too many sub 30 point games in his

It’s so early in the season. SGA averages great numbers while not playing the 4th quarter. He’s gonna outlast Luka in the long run of the regular season.

Laker legend THT, we chose him over Caruso btw.

Plus he usually played all 82 games

MJ also had a pretty crazy whistle, how do the FTA align?

• 2025-26 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — 9.7 FTA
• 1986-87 Michael Jordan — 11.9 FTA

MJ averaged more FTA that season than SGA ever had.

hmmm, why 19 games? Really hard to say. I wonder why they would use 19 games in at this very moment. Perhaps philosophers can enlighten us in the future

This is some r/nbacirclejerk type of comment

Please please please delete this. It may be true on a factual basis but it’s the exact type of thing that will further fuel his detractors from appreciating his greatness. At this point I don’t even really care above MVP(I do) but I really just want this man to start getting his flowers whilst he’s playing and not when he’s retired.

Not in the postseason he’s not.

lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/2dWMLD8qZ4

Name checks out

he not just scoring lol he doing it efficiently, him & jokic doing historic shit, appreciate greatness, yall dudes be diminishing anything lol…

Better win 5 more titles.

Dear lord.