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[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Andre Drummond is the first and only player in the NBA’s play-by-play era to average more than 8 rebounds and 3 offensive boards while logging fewer than 15 minutes a night over the first 10 games of a season.

[Taco Trey Kerby @treykerby]

I thought this was a JYD jersey, but he wore 31 in New York. Shelden Williams fits the timeframe but that's a wild choice.

[Jim Miloch @podoffame]

A player had only recorded a 40/10/5 game eight times before their 21st birthday in NBA history before Cooper Flagg did it a ninth time tonight.

Flagg is the first to go 43/10/6.

[Tomer Azarly @TomerAzarly]

Victor Wembanyama recorded a 22-point, 5-block half against the Suns. It's just the 13th time that's been done since 1996-97, per @Stathead.

It's his 2nd time doing so IN THE LAST WEEK!

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

Darius Acuff is averaging 25.9 points (8th highest ever for an NBA rookie) and 7.4 assists...

and the Kings' effective field-goal percentage, turnover percentage and net rating are all better when he's on the floor than they are when he's not.

[The Lead @TheLeadSM]

Most points through the first 10 games of an NBA career in the 3-point era:

273 - Michael Jordan
259 - Darius Acuff Jr.
252 - Brandon Jennings
242 - Terry Cummings
238 - Shaquille O’Neal

[Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 @JoshEberley]

2026 Luka
2019 Harden
2006 Kobe

[ShamusTalksSports @ShamusTalkSport]

LeBron James faces the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight, the franchise where his NBA career began, and a team he has faced fewer times than any other opponent in his career.

LeBron is 21-6 against Cleveland, a .778 winning percentage that ranks second among all teams he has faced in the regular season.

The teams LeBron has the highest regular-season winning percentages against:

1.) Charlotte Hornets — 50-9 (.847)
2.) Cleveland Cavaliers — 21-6 (.778)
3.) Toronto Raptors — 48-16 (.750)
T-4.) Los Angeles Lakers — 22-8 (.733)
T-4.) Minnesota Timberwolves — 33-12 (.733)
5.) New York Knicks — 46-18 (.718)

Data via @bball_ref / @Stathead

[Crazy Stats @NBAcrazystats]

Top 20, per @Stathead

[Mark Followill @MFollowill]

Mavs list Santi Aldama as probable for Friday’s NBA Cup group stage game vs Utah. His last game was Feb 4 w/ Memphis and he had right knee surgery in March. Aldama gives the Mavs a needed stretch big. Courtesy of my friends at @Stathead, he’s 5th in 3ptM by 7-footers since 2023-24.

Coincidentally the Mavs see the player first on the list tomorrow, Lauri Markkanen of the Jazz

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

Basketball Reference tracks per-possession averages back to the 1973-74 season.

Joel Embiid (38.1) has the highest average for points per 75 possessions during that span, but Luka Dončić (38.9) and Stephen Curry (38.5) are both on pace to top that.

[The Lead @TheLeadSM]

Crazy but true:

Outside of Wilt Chamberlain, Luka Doncic has scored more points than any other player in NBA history through the first 8 games of a season 🤯

[ShamusTalksSports @ShamusTalkSport]

Victor Wembanyama becomes just the 6th player in NBA history to record 50+ points and 24+ rebounds in a game and the first to do so since Chris Webber in 2001.

• Wilt Chamberlain — 75 times
• Elgin Baylor — 5 times
• Bob Pettit — 2 times
• Elvin Hayes — 1 time
• Chris Webber — 1 time
• Victor Wembanyama — 1 time

Data via @bball_ref / @Stathead

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

The Philadelphia 76ers are 7-1, and Tyrese Maxey is averaging 29.1 points and 5.3 assists, has around 86% of the Sixers' total value over replacement player and is 4th in Basketball Reference's MVP Tracker ("...based on a model built using previous voting results.").

[Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 @JoshEberley]

One can’t help but notice… Certain winds of change, perhaps?

[Bradeaux @BradeauxNBA]

The Rockets are winning games by 12.9 points per game this season, which is the best in basketball….

They’re also ranked 1st in net rating, and offensive rating so far.

[The Lead @TheLeadSM]

Most points scored through a player’s first six games of the season in the last 50 years:

231 - Michael Jordan (1986)
226 - Luka Doncic (2026)
222 - Luka Doncic (2025)
220 - Luka Doncic (2022)
218 - Michael Jordan (1988)
214 - Michael Jordan (1989)

[Myles @MylesEhrlich]

As we turn the page to college ball, Basketball Reference’s WNBA year-end wrap is here!

[PossibleChairs @Possiblechairs]

Luka currently owns the highest scoring season post merger, and 3 of the top 10. He’s the best scorer of the 2020’s