ESPN Stats: Joel Embiid had his 6th straight 30-point game in tonight’s victory over the Spurs. He joins Wilt Chamberlain and Allen Iverson as the only players in 76ers history to have 30 points in 6 straight games.
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Justin Kubatko: Nikola Jokic last night: ✅ 24 PTS ✅ 11 REB ✅ 8-12 FG Jokic now has 403 rebounds and 203 assists in 29 games played this season. He tied Wilt Chamberlain (1967-68) as the fastest player in NBA history to reach 400 rebounds and 200 assists in a season. pic.twitter.com/wOuZGuTfAx
Law Murray: Players to score 30+ points while making every field goal attempt against the Los Angeles Lakers: – Wilt Chamberlain – Karl Malone – Keita Bates-Diop
Justin Kubatko: Domantas Sabonis last night: ✅ 30 PTS ✅ 11 REB ✅ 12-17 FG Sabonis has recorded four straight 20-point, 10-rebound games with an eFG% of at least 70%. The only player in NBA history with a longer such streak is Wilt Chamberlain (6). pic.twitter.com/zLsczdoaVw
Curry, who is second in the NBA in scoring and first in both 3-pointers made and attempted, got 94 of the 100 first-place votes cast in the 2021-22 debut of ESPN’s MVP straw poll, which was conducted from Dec. 3 through Dec. 6. If Curry goes on to win the MVP award, he would tie Wilt Chamberlain for the largest gap between wins (six years) in NBA history. Curry, who will turn 34 in March, also would become the third-oldest MVP in league history, trailing Karl Malone in 1999 and Michael Jordan in 1998.
Justin Kubatko: Rudy Gobert this season: ✅ 372 PTS ✅ 368 REB ✅ 72.5 FG% The only other player in NBA history to record at least 350 points and 350 rebounds while shooting 70% from the field through their first 25 games of a season is Wilt Chamberlain in 1972-73. pic.twitter.com/UaISd1JhIl
A decade ago, there were 18 total triple-doubles during the 2011-12 NBA regular season. Last season, there were 142. As the game and its positions have evolved, that number will likely continue to go up. The days of having a point guard, a shooting guard, a small forward, a power forward and a center who all have very distinct jobs on the court are gone. (Except, of course, Wilt Chamberlain, who had 78 career triple-doubles and led the league in assists in 1968, just to prove he could.) “It used to be that a center could rebound and score, but he wasn’t getting assists. A guard was getting assists and scoring, but he didn’t need to get rebounds,” said Christopher Dempsey, reporter and analyst for Altitude Sports. “All of that has been turned on its head now. Players are being asked to do more because they are capable of doing more. They are growing up in their basketball lives doing all the things.”
