Move aside, Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant. Jack Taylor is in town…? News broke on Tuesday night that Division III basketball player Taylor of Grinnell men’s team scored a video game-esque 138 points in a single game, breaking the previous NCAA scoring record. I don’t know what kind of game was being played for one player to be able to score that many points, but here is a box score of what happened during the game: [Read more…]
How good was point guard Stephen Curry in Monday night’s win over the Dallas Mavericks, on the road, in overtime? Simply put, he has never played a better game in the NBA. Not even close. Lets take a look at what went down. The already-shorthanded Golden State Warriors got a brief scare in the fourth quarter when Curry went down after – wait for it – twisting his ankle when he landed on a Mavericks player’s foot while driving to the basket. He
Some days are simply filled with bad news, and Monday turned out to be that day. A number of players around the league got news about the status of their respective injuries, and it was all bad, starting with the unexpected extent of Kyrie Irving’s finger injury sustained during Saturday’s game against the Mavericks. See which players will miss an extended period of time, along with some very interesting quotes from Dwight Howard and Marcin Gortat below: Kyrie Irving will miss four weeks
Every night in the NBA, something noteworthy happens. It can be anything from a ridiculous facial jam, a scuffle, a milestone or players caught doing silly things on camera. These are moments we simply can’t afford to miss as fans, but it’s difficult to keep track of everything with so many games being played on most nights. While we can’t show you everything, we’ll do our best to keep you updated with some of the best stuff from around the league.
We all have a general idea of what Mike D’Antoni wants to do as the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Get them to score a whole lot more, for one. D’Antoni is a well-documented offensive wizard, so if anyone can figure out how to best utilize the endless amount of talent on the roster, it would be him, no matter what Magic Johnson wants to say about it. We don’t know, however, of his plans in greater detail – mostly because we
