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Curry at 1 feels right or nah?

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Magic lost Rookie of the Year to Bird. Elvin Hayes lost it to Wes Unseld. Melo and Wade both lost it to LeBron. Every one of them is on this card.

Donovan Mitchell is the only guy here who lost it to somebody who isn't.

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San Antonio held Shai to 40.9 percent shooting over seven games in the West finals and knocked out the MVP. So I'm giving him to the guy on this card in the Spurs jersey. 2015 Kawhi.

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The 2012-13 Bulls ended Miami's 27-game streak without Derrick Rose, who missed the entire season. They also snapped a 13-game Knicks streak that year, only the second team ever to end two streaks that long in one season.

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Bird and Walton settling it over a chessboard ♟️

Walton's feet limited him to 468 of a possible 1,148 regular season games for his career, but in that first Boston season he played 80, the most he ever managed. The Celtics won 67 and the title, and Bird later called it the best team he was ever on.

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Dirk Nowitzki finished with exactly as many technical fouls as Anthony Mason. 192 each. The soft-spoken seven-footer from Würzburg, dead even with one of the bruisers on the 90s Knicks.

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Freddie Brown led the NBA in three-point percentage in 1979-80, the first season the league had a three-point line. He was 31 and had been Downtown Freddie since high school in Milwaukee.

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The Lakers row says two seasons. The second one was a single game, a spot start on opening night 2017, and then he sat for the rest of the year on a four-year, $72 million contract.

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Milwaukee's 5OT and Oklahoma City's 5OT on this card are the same game. November 9, 1989, Bucks 155, Seattle 154.

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Memphis traded Marc Gasol to Toronto on February 7, 2019. That same year he won an NBA title with the Raptors and a World Cup with Spain. That's why he's the Grizzlies' pick here.

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Klay opened the 2018-19 season 5 for 36 from three over seven games. Then on October 29 in Chicago he made 14 of them in 27 minutes, still the single-game record.

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Larry Bird topped out at 29.9 in 1987-88. Jayson Tatum's 30.1 in 2022-23 is the only 30-point season in Celtics history. Jaylen Brown got to 28.7 last season and then got traded to Philly.

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Russell Westbrook wore 0 for four franchises. His first season out of it, wearing 4 in Washington, he still averaged a triple-double, 22.2 points, 11.5 rebounds and 11.7 assists. The number never mattered much.

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New Orleans at 47-35 is a bit of a trick. That 2002-03 team was the Charlotte Hornets after the move, Jamal Mashburn made All-NBA, and the league later handed the Charlotte years back to Charlotte.

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Hakeem banking one in without even looking at the rim 😳

He was a soccer goalkeeper growing up in Lagos and didn't play basketball until he was 15. The goalkeeping is a big reason his footwork was so good. By 1998 he was 35 and coming off knee surgery, and Houston went out to Utah in five in the first round. Drexler retired after that series.

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The 2017 Warriors' only playoff loss was Game 4 of the Finals, when Cleveland scored 49 in the first quarter. Jokic isn't the fix for that quarter. But he replaces Zaza Pachulia in the starting five, and I'm taking 16-0.

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Damian Lillard never led the NBA in threes made. Not in a single season of his career, which is how Portland ends up with a never on this card.

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Steph Curry made 402 threes in 2015-16. From 1989-90 through 1992-93, not one NBA team made that many in a season.

He breaks the league. He just takes a few more hits doing it.

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Paul Pierce hitting 30 in green for the first time ☘️

Funny part is he grew up in Inglewood as a Lakers fan and got cut from his high school varsity as a freshman. He passed Larry Bird to become second in Celtics history in scoring behind John Havlicek, and his Finals MVP in 2008 came against the Lakers.

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Malik Beasley made 319 threes for Detroit in 2024-25 and started 18 games. He finished second in Sixth Man of the Year voting.

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John Stockton's assist record survived 21 seasons of Chris Paul. Paul retired in February 2026 with 12,552, second all time, and still finished 3,254 short. That's why Stockton is on this card at 3.