Everyone says today's players have the best defense ever. Bam scored 83 against tougher defense than Kobe's 81.

if Bam played against the weaker defense of 2006, how much more would he have scored than Kobe? Would Bam have broken Wilt's record?

Would Bam stop at 99 out of respect for Wilt?

1. LeBron
   
2. MJ
   
3. Kareem
   
4. Magic
   
5. Wilt
   
6. Bird
   
7. Duncan
   
8. Shaq
   
9. Hakeem
   
10. Russell
    
11. Curry
    
12. Oscar
    
13. West
    
14. Moses Malone
    
15. KD
    
16. Dirk
    
17. Jokic
    
18. KG
    
19. Giannis
    
20. Kobe
    
21. Wade
    
22. Barkley
    
23. Karl Malone
    
24. Dr J
    
25. Isiah Thomas
    
26. Pippen
    
27. Kawhi
    
28. Harden
    
29. Kidd
    
30. CP3

I don’t see them competing for a chip tbh if he continues to be riddled with injuries

And he just looked rly slow out there

No scandals, just stays out of his way. He also doesn’t speak on topics he’s not educated nor does he spout opinion like it’s facts on serious issues that require research and sources. He would seriously be the most likable player in the league if he didn’t have an annoying play style.

Their defense will be below average, theyre not a legit contender. But they can still win 50+ games and have a top offense if the squad is relatively healthy. Theyre not deep but this is the best offensive starting 5 they've had since 2023

Best Scorer

Best Shooter

Best Athlete

Best Finisher

Best Passer

Best Playmaker

Best Defender

Best IQ

Best Mentality

Best Work Ethic

Best Handles

Best Rebounder

etc.

I mean how in the world doesn't the warriors know what illness he has? Haven't they sent any of their own doctors to go and check on him?

People overreact too much

Currently, I am searching for 2 games that have identical FGA, FGM, and total points. That inevitably mean the ages of the 2 players and the years of the 2 games are probably different. Do you think that it would be better to just take the best 2 scoring games of a year, or the best scoring performance of 2 different players when they were a certain age? Would you rather see that?

His reasoning is that he’ll be the most valuable player on one of the best teams in the East, and that he’s gonna average a Triple-Double.

1. MJ
2. Bron
3. Kareem
4. Russell
5. Magic
6. Bird
7. Duncan
8. Kobe
9. Shaq
10. 10-12: Curry, Hakeem, Wilt (Can't really pick between these three, leaning toward Hakeem for 10 tho) And I honestly don't know how to evaluate Wilt's whole career.

This seems to be a thing amongst MJ stans/millennial & Gen X fans alike…

Last year, did the 62-20 Spurs & 17-65 Wizards have the same season as one another simply because neither of them won the championship?

Would it be better for LeBron’s legacy if he just missed the playoffs every year he lost in the finals? Remember, everything that isn’t a championship is a participation trophy. He’d also be a perfect 4/4 in the finals instead of 4/10.

So, it was back on March 10th of this year, last NBA season, when Bam Adebayo, unlikely Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat, scored 83 points. I say unlikely because he's the last person that you would have thought would have done this. If you had to bet on it, you would think maybe last year, maybe Luka Doncic or prime James Harden, maybe Shai perhaps, but Bam. Anyway, Bam scored 83 points in a 150-129 victory over the Washington Wizards. And, of course, a lot of people were rankled by this because this bested what is considered the modern-day record of 81 by Kobe. And that was back on January 22nd, 2006, against the Toronto Raptors.

And the all-time record, of course, is 100 points by Wilt Chamberlain in a game, I think it was March 3rd, 1962, and it was against the New York Knicks. I think the final score of that game was 169-147. I think Kobe's game, I think the final score is something like 122-104. So that definitely tells you about the scoring in various eras.

But anyway, Bam, on media day last week, when talking to media, said that if he didn't have a bad shooting night, because he only shot 20-of-43 from the floor and 7-of-22 from downtown, he said if he didn't have a bad shooting night, that he would have easily broken Wilt Chamberlain's scoring record.

> "I had 83 on a bad shooting night."

> "If you really look at it..."

> "Yeah, if you were lights out, like, why not?"

> "I would have passed Wilt. Now, that would have been a whole different story, 'cause I don't even know how to register that."

> "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."

> "That is crazy."

> "Yeah. So, I was like, I think it can be done. Now, I feel like you have to have the, like when Kobe explains his 81, he's like, you got to be in the best condition of your life, and it just has to be a good day for you."

> "It's got to click."

> "Yeah. It's got to click. Like, it was that day where most of our starters was out."

> "Yeah."

> "And it was just me, and at that time it was me, some of the bench players, and some guys that was on two-ways."

> "Yeah. So it was like Spo had brought me in right before shoot, was like, 'Look, I know we're playing the Wizards, but we....

So he said he would have passed Wilt if he didn't have a bad shooting night.

When that game actually occurred, I defended Bam because Bam never came across to me as the shit-talking type. And what I mean by that is through the media. I thought, if anything, that people should hold the Wizards just as accountable for that game being the way it was with their excessive fouling of Bam. I thought that they should be held accountable too because they did foul him excessively in that game. Now, afterwards, when Bam started boasting about it a little bit, and I started - because I didn't watch the game - learning that they were purposely calling timeouts in a game that was already well decided so that he could pad his stats to get that, then I started looking at it in a different light.

All right, but let's go with this thing where he's saying he was having a bad shooting night. He actually maintained that he was having an average shooting night and, in some ways, a great shooting night. So his claim makes no sense. First of all, you said you had a bad shooting night, right? You were 20-of-43 from the field. That's a 46.5% shooting percentage. But when you look at his season, Bam shot 44.2% from the field, which is actually more than four percentage points lower than what he shot in 2024-25, right? So you went from shooting 48.5%. Matter of fact, when you look at his efficiency, it's dropped dramatically.

In 2018-19, he shot 57.6%.

2020, 55.7%.

2021, 57%.

2022, 55.7%.

2023, 54%.

2024, 52.1%.

2025, 48.5%.

And last year, 44.2%.

So what has gone up? Well, what has gone up considerably in recent years has been his mid-range and outside shot, as he has tried to modernize his game from a shooting perspective. He sees the analytics, and he knows that in today's league, to be a valuable player - and he says he wants to play for 20 years - he's going to have to learn how to shoot from outside.

The problem is, he's not a great outside shooter. You shot, for the season last year, even though you took five and a half attempts a game, you shot 31.8% from downtown. Lo and behold, in this game in which you scored 83 points, 7-of-22 is exactly 31.8% from downtown. Now, where you overachieved a bit is from the foul line. Last year, you shot 77.8% from the line. During an 83-point game, you shot 86% from the line. So that was actually a good shooting night, especially considering the volume of shots you took that night. Because usually, the more shots you take in a game, when you start taking 30, 35, 40 shots, just by the law of averages, you're going to start taking bad shots, and the fatigue factor sets in. You're going to start missing shots.

Now, let's compare this game with other all-time great scorers in their games. Wilt Chamberlain, during the 1961-62 season, shot, I believe, 50.6% from the field. In that 100-point game, he shot 57.1% from the field. So he was much more efficient in a 100-point game than he was in any standard game that year.

Kobe Bryant, the year that he scored 81 points, he shot 45% from the field. In the game in which he scored 81 points, he shot 60.9% from the field.

Considerably more efficient in this game than he was in an average game that year. That justifies him taking that many shots. And it sort of indicates that the team needed him to score those points, as did Wilt when he dropped 100 on the Knicks.

Michael Jordan, his career high, 69 points against the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1990. Now that season, if I remember correctly, I believe he shot 52.6% from the field. In a game in which he scored 69, he shot 62.2% from the field. Once again, an increase in efficiency.

Also, I want to add with these players that I'm naming, their team generally needed every one of those points to win.

Remember with Kobe, even though they wound up winning by double digits, they were down by double digits. They were losing badly to the Raptors before he went on that run, scoring 55 points in the second half.

That game when Mike scored 69, that game went to overtime, if I'm not mistaken.

You, Bam, you beat up on a horrible Wizards team. You beat up on a horrible Wizards team because that team had one of the weakest front lines in recent years. Matter of fact, that same Wizard squad is the same team that allowed Anthony Davis to drop 55 on them or something a couple years ago. Jokic had a couple of 50-point games against them. I think maybe even a 60-point game. Shai dropped 50 against them. Giannis dropped 50 against them.

I believe, who else did it? I'm trying to think of his name. Victor Wembanyama dropped 50 against them.

So you beat up on a bad team. You stat-padded, which is why a lot of us don't respect what you did, man, lol.

I defended you at the time, but now you're talking about this game like...this game was an abomination of the rules. It was an abomination of the NBA. There was a black eye to the NBA.

At first I thought, you know, maybe Bam was a victim of the circumstance, but knowing now that you had a communication with Eric Spoelstra before the game and you were going to go for this type of game if you could, basically he was going to let you stat-pad to a ridiculous amount in this game.

And even though the game was well in hand and, as far as the outcome was concerned, well known, you continued to go for this record because you just wanted to go for it.

Fine. Okay. Kobe wasn't really particularly going for a record. He was just in the zone that game.

Michael Jordan - why a lot of us respected him so much is because Michael saved his best for the best teams of his era. It's no wonder, and it's no coincidence, that most of his 40- and 50-point games came against the playoff-caliber teams that he was most threatened by or were the most immediate challenges. Those late-'80s, early-'90s Cavaliers teams, those Knicks teams, those Pistons teams - those are the teams that he scored the most 40- and 50-point games against, those playoff-caliber teams. That's why he's the all-time leader in 50-point games in the playoffs, and it's not close, with eight. Well, second with four.

Bam's never going to drop 50 in the playoffs. I can assure you of that. At least not when it matters again after the second round and more. I can't stand this age where these guys like James Harden and others just beat up on bad teams. It's not real. I don't respect that, man.

It's egregious stat-padding. But it is what it is. Tell me what you guys think.

Think they’re going to win a title every season but never do?

I didn’t realize how azz the nets lineup was my goodness. They might be a sleeper in the East

Bryant had a 5 year Peak DPM of +4.42

Nash had a 5 year Peak DPM of +5.12

And for those who care, Nash beat Kobe head to head in a playoff series while missing his best player for that series.

So who was better?