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Luka Doncic led the Mavs to a much needed win tonight just missting another triple double. Doncic had 38 points, 11 rebounds & 8 assists!
Lukas Top Dunks of his NBA Career in the first 3 years. He had another one in tonights game that isn't on here but could be!Luka Doncic led the Mavs to a much needed win tonight just missting another triple double. Doncic had 38 points, 11 rebounds & 8 assists!
NBA Stats 12/12/22
Luka Doncic 30 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 1 block
B. Bogdanovic (Det) 24 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists
Franz Wagner 24 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 block
Moritz Wagner 17 points, 5 rebounds and 1 steal
B. Bogdanovic (Atl) 17 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists
Domantas Sabonis 21 points, 20 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal and 1 block
Nikola Vucevic 19 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks
Tyler Herro 35 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists
Duncan Robinson 14 points, 1 rebounds and 3 assists
Max Struss 10 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal
Nikola Jokic 43 points, 14 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals and 1 block
Corey Kispert 15 points, 1 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block
Since I can't watch the football game, I looked up some NBA and saw that Herro scored 41 points tonight!
It's great to see the Jazz back to their winning ways. They finally got Lauri Markannen back. He had missed around 3 games.
They destroyed the New Orleans Pelicans tonight behind fine games from all of our guys.
Lauri Markannen 19 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block
Kelly Olynyk 6 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists
Walker Kessler 11 points, 16 rebounds and 3 blocks in 23 minutes!
Why don't they start this young phenom? It would give the Jazz what I
would call the Ivory Towers. Two youngs studs in Markannen 7'0 and Kessler 7'1.
They would dominate on the glass and swat shots left and right not to mention
scoring in bunches. It would be a defensive nightmare to try and stop.
One last thing. Walker Kessler scored 20 points againt Indiana a while back. They need to play him
more minutes and he should be starting. How dominant is he? Kessler has 17 blocks in the last 6 games!
Then add on to that they he his shooting percentage is 76% which would probably lead the NBA. The kid
is an no brainer. In addition to Kessler the Jazz also have former Wisconsin Center Micah Potter and the european
foreign players. I would love to see more of the young guys playing instead of older veterans like Olynyk.
A member of the Los Angeles Lakers got MVP chants during Friday's 126-108 victory over the Denver Nuggets, but it probably wasn't who you're thinking.
It wasn't Anthony Davis, the Laker playing most like an MVP thus far this season. It wasn't LeBron James or Russell Westbrook -- two actual former MVPs -- though they deserved such praise with 45 combined points, 20 combined rebounds and 16 total rebounds. And it wasn't even the player who shares a last name with former Lakers MVP winner Kobe Bryant, though the less famous Thomas Bryant thrived with 21 points in perhaps his best outing of the season.
No, the MVP chants were for second-year undrafted guard Austin Reaves who had just scored his 10th consecutive point in the second quarter to cut a nine-point deficit down to four by finishing a layup in traffic and drawing a foul in the process. The fans rewarded him with perhaps the highest honor they can bestow upon one of their own.
i documented the story of Austin Reaves multiple times over the years when he was a high school and collegiate athlete, since he was an Arkansas native and played his high school ball not too far from me.
Austin Reaves had a great college career as the alpha dog at Oklahoma. He was ignored in the draft and only made the cut last year with the Lakers because they decided to add a third max-salary player and fill the rest of their roster with "league minimums."
They could have kept Mac McClung too on this same arrangement, but ironically, Kendrick Nunn was seen as having more value as a $4.9 million expiring contract (for potential trade considerations) than a "random" rookie point guard. I firmly believe that Reaves was added as a "token white guy" because the Lakers didn't have a single one at the time.
Anyway, Reaves has "defied the odds" and solidified a role in the rotation very consistently for the past year and a half. He will get a nice payday this offseason, maybe even from a different team. There are many players (especially white Americans) who don't get that opportunity.
Bojan torched the Mavs tonight. Dallas should have signed him in the offseason or trade for him now.
No NBA city is perfect, but the one market that consistently seems to create issues between players and fans is Salt Lake City. The Utah Jazz have played there for over four decades, but a common thread in that time has been players voicing frustrations about the actions of the fan base there. Both Russell Westbrook and Ja Morant have had run-ins with those fans in recent years, but even Utah players themselves have struggled in their interactions with them.
Donovan Mitchell is one such player. He spent the first five seasons of his career in Utah, but now that he's a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, he's opening up about the way he was treated by fans in his original NBA city.
"It's no secret there's a lot of stuff that I dealt with being in Utah off the floor," Mitchell told Andscaped's Marc J. Spears. "If I'm being honest with you, I never really said this, but it was draining. It was just draining on my energy just because you can't sit in your room and cheer for me and then do all these different things. I'm not saying specifically every fan, but I just feel like it was a lot of things. A [Utah] state senator [Stuart Adams] saying I need to get educated on my own Black history. Seeing Black kids getting bullied because of their skin color. Seeing a little girl [Isabella Tichenor] hang herself because she's being bullied."
Now that Mitchell is playing in the more diverse Cleveland, he called it "a blessing to be back around people that look like me." He also told the story of a particularly stressful interaction with a police officer. "I got pulled over once. I got an attitude from a cop until I gave him my ID," Mitchell explained. "And that forever made me wonder what happens to the young Black kid in Utah that doesn't have that power to just be like, 'This is who I am.' And that was one of the things for me that I took to heart."
Sadly, racism exists in every NBA market, and really, all across the United States. It can't be avoided entirely. But Mitchell's stories about Utah are hardly exclusive to his experience there. Many players have expressed issues with the fans in Salt Lake City. Mitchell is happy to have found a new home, but it's unfortunate that he had to deal with these issues in the first place.
One look at that Sam Quinn fellow tells us all we need to know. His bio just confirms what we all suspected. I'm sure we could all email him and give him Merry Christmas wishes and rejoice in the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ with him...Oh, wait... LOLDonovan Mitchell throws shade on the state of Utah for being too white.
Donovan Mitchell reflects on time in Utah before first game against Jazz: 'It was just draining on my energy'
Mitchell also noted that "It's a blessing to be back around people that look like me"
By Sam Quinn
The black-on-white murder rate in America is about 30-40 per month. Despite Utah's low population density, it stands to figure that at least a handful of whites were murdered to death by black goons during Donovan Mitchell's playing career. Instead of this real concept, he instead focuses on the psychosomatic fairy tale that where every black adoptee from a crackhead mother has a sob story about being bullied in their Mormon boomer homestead.
I don't really begrudge Donovan Mitchell for responding to the prompts to think and say exactly what he's supposed to think and say. He's not even wrong; I too consider it a blessing to be around people who look like me. The hook is that slovenly, self-hating nerds like "journalist" Sam Quinn want everyone around them to look like Donovan Mitchell.
i was about to suggest that “Sam Quinn” certainly isn’t his real name ...One look at that Sam Quinn fellow tells us all we need to know. His bio just confirms what we all suspected. I'm sure we could all email him and give him Merry Christmas wishes and rejoice in the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ with him...Oh, wait... LOL