And that’s why I want Iguodala!

LeBron has played against someone born in 1962 (Kevin Willis) and 2006 (Cooper Flagg)

Will be 2007 when he plays Cameron Boozer this season

I didn’t believe that Kawhi one. That’s wild.

You have some all timers on that list but this is one of my favorites:

Wilt had a season where he averaged more minutes per game than there are minutes per game.

Not only did Robert Horry’s teams never miss the playoffs in his 16 year career, he made at least the 2nd round in all 16

The Pacers have never had a first overall pick play for them.

LeBron has a better chance of making the finals than Curry does at hitting a 3.

LeBron James has more playoff wins since 1997 than any franchise.

John Lucas once had 24 assists in a game and scored 0 points

No player has ever averaged 30 ppg and 20 rpg over the course of a season, except for Wilt Chamberlain who did this 7 years in a row.

I’ll always say this one — Saddiq Bey played for 4 different coach’s in a 5 game stretch

every TJ???

Bismack biyombo is younger than buddy hield

Steven Adams is younger than buddy hield

Andre Drummond is still somehow only 32

At one point in time there were only 3 players that made $30 million per year

- Michael Jordan
- Kobe Bryant
- Mike Conley Jr.

The one I heard recently was that you have a better chance to be in the Hall of Fame than to be All Defense x5 as a guard. Not sure if it’s true because I didnt double check but Id hope it wasnt a blatant lie lol.

Lebron was only 3 years away from playing in 4 decades as well.

A fun one for me is that Patrick McCaw is the only player in NBA history to win championships in his first three years and he did it with more than one team (GS x2, TOR).

Edit: I was wrong, apparently he was the only one to win three in a row to start his career. Russell and Magic were ²⁄₃.

The lakers only gave up one first round pick when they traded their 31 year old AD for a 25 year old Luka.

This one has been shared frequently: Kawhi Leonard has more career steals (1377) than turnovers (1345) and personal fouls (1303).

Holy shit. The TJ and the Sonics one sound impossible.

That Bruce Bowen stat is mind boggling

Even now, wanting Iguodala to take the shot if the fate of the universe is on the line is still being proven correct.

Jerry West won 41 games in a row once

That’s by far the longest streak a player has in American professional team sports

This post is incredible and needs more upvotes

Vince Carter is also second to LeBron in game winners/Tie or go ahead shots with less than 24 seconds on the clock.

Didn’t draymond almost get a quadruple double without points?

AC Green played every regular season game for nearly 14 and a half seasons (1,192 games). Mikael Bridges is the closest active player (638 games) and can break the record in a little under 7 seasons.

“Manute Bol blocked more than 10% of all 2-point shots attempted while he was on the floor”

This is hard to wrap my head around.

How did you even figure these things out, OP?

My favourite random NBA tidbit is there has never been a player named Brock in the NBA. The NFL had three players named Brock just last year.

Luka was teammates with Dirk, who was teammates with AC Green, who was teammates with KAJ, who was teammates with Guy Rodgers, who was teammates with Joe Graboski, who played in the last season of the BAA and the 1st season of the NBA.

Louie Dampier, the ABA’s all-time leader in three-pointers, hit 199 threes in the 1968-69 ABA season. No NBA player would hit even 200 until the 1994-95 season, when John Starks became the first to pull it off. Bonus fact, Kevin Durant has never made as many threes in a season as Dampier did in the aforementioned season.

Draymond is really a 1 of 1 player. Triple double with 4 points…baffling but amazing lol.

The Knicks held the lead for just 23.6% of the NBA Finals and still won in only 5 games

this “stat” was misleading at the time of the finals too, it makes you think they were getting shellacked the whole time when in reality Knicks outscored Spurs almost every quarter of the series

The 2015-16 Mavs had 3 point guards on the team at the same time with the exact same birthday:
Deron Williams, Raymond Felton, JJ Barea

All born on 6/26/84.

Dorell Wright hit more 3s in his 7th season (194) than in his previous 6 combined (73), and led the league in 3s that year

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wrighdo01.html

That Knicks stat is how they beat us 2 years ago too. We’d build large leads almost every game and then in the 4th the Knicks would just roll us. They definitely have a mental toughness.

Up until last year, James Harden had more made free throws than he did made field goals for his CAREER

companion fact to your draymond fact: he also had 5 blocks that game, making him the only player with at least 5 rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks in a game to not record a 5x5

In Game 5 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Kings, a still-in-his-prime Shaq only received ONE FREE THROW ATTEMPT despite being guarded by either Vlade Divac or Scot Pollard.

The Lakers lost that game by a single point.

I shared a similar stat in another thread but Hassan Whiteside shot 100% from 3 from 2011 to 2018

The Seattle Super Sonics have won a playoff series more recently than the Sacramento Kings. The Sonics have been defunct for 18 years.

What a way to kick two fanbases in the nuts with just one leg

From 1957 to 2022, 16 players total across all years have appeared in the finals. Those 16 players are in order chronologically from first appearance:

• Bill Russell
• Wilt
• KAJ
• Wes Unseld
• Jo Jo White (1x)
• Bill Walton (1x)
• Larry Bird
• Thomas
• Jordan
• Hakeem
• Duncan
• Shaq
• Kobe
• Lebron
• Curry
• Giannis (1x)

With the knicks wining, the last 6 years have been the highest amount of parity the league has ever seen in terms of winners.

Did you just copy and paste all of these from old “what’s an NBA fact that sounds unbelievable” threads?

he sonics kings one is crazy and hilarious 

Damn Iguodala

Only 2 players in NBA history have higher single-game career highs than Andrew Wiggins in all five statistical categories (Points > 47, Rebounds > 13, Assists > 11, Steals > 6, Blocks > 5).

Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon.

10 | 5 | 37 | 0

Jan 23, 2015

All the players Celtics have drafted 1st or 2nd:

• 1950 Chuck Share (1st)

• 1986 Len Bias (2nd), dead without playing a single minute

Wilt Leads the league in minutes played over a career, and has never fouled out

Damian Lillard once had a 5 point, 18 rebound game on 1-13 shooting

LeBron is taking PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) but the NBA is hiding it. Explain How could a 41 year old can still play at an elite level? Oh forgot this is Reddit, anything can be said and I said it. The truth will eventually come out years later.

Lebron fucked Bronny’s mom and the League didn’t turn this into a scandal.

Open shot. Fate of the universe on the line, or the Martians have the death beam pointed at Earth and you better hit it… I want Iguodala

Huh actually surprised kawhi has gotten a triple double

All respect to the bubble, but only one TJ really matters

Iirc the Knicks lead percentage was even below 20% until the last game

Max kellerman was onto Iguodala fr

Most people know this one by now but it’s still mind-blowing to me.

Mike Conley has played 1226 games, 37588 minutes, plus another 120 playoff games and 3789 playoff minutes, and has never received a technical foul (or had a triple-double).

How does Bruce Bowen shoot a higher percentage from 3 than the stripe?

“I want Igoudala”

Jamal Murray is the only player in the history of the NBA to score 50 points with zero free throw attempts

Sidney Wicks had a ten year career. His points per game decreased every season from his rookie season all the way to his final season.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wickssi01.html

Wilt once averaged 48.52 mins per game.

John Stockton is the all-time leader in both assists and steals, averaged 16/3/13 over a nine year stretch where he led the league in assists, and somehow avoided ever having a triple double in 1504 regular season games (he had 1 in the playoffs).

This is admittedly not as unbelievable but I think it’s fun: the 2017 cavs briefly had three #1 picks, a #2, two #3 picks, one #4, and one #5 all on their roster.

LeBron, Kyrie, bogut (for 56 seconds before he broke his leg) were the 1s. Derrick Williams 2, mike Dunleavy and Deron Williams 3, Tristan Thompson 4, and kevin love 5.

Bill Russell won back-to-back titles as Player-Coach.

This might be fake but it was constantly posted that Gary Payton has two sons named

Gary Payton Jr and also a son Gary Payton II

Someone would follow up and say he was unaware of one and they were born close to each other

Only 4 players have had a quadruple double. Two of those were with the Spurs. And the Spurs are the closest to adding the 5th if the NBA scored Timmys 2003 G6 Finals correctly

Mikal Bridges played in 83 games in a regular season

Bruce Bowen stat is mind-boggling

I’m at an age where my first real memories of being an NBA fan were being a kid during the end of the Iverson era into the Iguodala era and there were nights you’d really believe you had a superstar on your hands (well especially as a kid but still). He’s the original “just a jump shot away” player in my life as a fan.

I’ll never forget that one year in Philly when he could actually knock down the three. My first taste of false hope.

At one point, the Pacers brought out a lineup where every player either had the first name TJ or the last name Holiday.