This unfortunate news for the Lakers comes on the heels of a 33-point, nine-assist, five-rebound performance for LeBron in Sunday's win over the Detroit Pistons. Through 11 games this year, the superstar forward is averaging 25.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game. Tonight's ...
LeBron said despite all of the attention paid to the Big Three, it's another member of the Heat who has keyed the team's performance against Oklahoma City. "We didn't have many perimeter shots that fell for us last night," LeBron said. "Shane is our key guy right now, our only guy...
As a freshman, he led the Red Devils to MCC and Missouri District 2 titles while averaging 13.3 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. He was chosen as the 2013 Metro Catholic Conference Co-Player of the Year. In 2014, he averaged 26.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game as a sophomore. As ...
Eleven days earlier, and some 1,500 miles to the west, Chris Paul's final Clippers playoff game was like so many others: disheartening. He had been superb throughout the first-round series with Utah, bearing the workload at a near-historic clip after Blake Griffin had been fell...
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so this could just reflect good luck. International football is particularly hard to rate, whether using subjective or objective methods. The main problems are that the teams don’t play very many competitive matches against one another, and that the composition of the rosters is always changing....
digit assists in a game, and how many points I could pair with a big night distributing the ball. It made maxing out my Playmaking Badges a much easier task, and once I added double digit rebounds to the mix, averaging a triple-double for an entire season was a goal I finally ...
Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala. McKinnie's competition was Danuel House, a sharpshooting guard who, like McKinnie, went undrafted and toiled in the G League for much of his young career. McKinnie shined in the preseason, averaging 6.6 points and 5.0 rebounds in 18.6 minut...
Mathematically, plus-minus is not that hard to define: It reflects how many points a player contributes to his team’s scoring margin per 100 possessions, relative to an average player.14 Wall, for instance, had a plus-minus rating of +3.9 for the Wizards last year. That means with Wall...
Pay attention to the crowd and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ bench when Kyrie Irving is about to dribble. Irving’s bag of tricks includes quick crossovers, hesitatio…