Chamberlain took 63 shots from the field that night.There are so many more hints that another 100-point night just aren’t going to happen. Picturing him having those four insane quarters in one night is, well, let’s just say it doesn’t seem likely, even for perhaps the greatest shooter the game has ever seen. That’s the best of his best, the hottest of his hottest, the four best regular-season quarter performances he’s ever had. Nobody has had more of those in the last 25 years than Curry, who can get on a hot streak like few others can dream about.Ĭurry’s career high for a first quarter is 25 points. And the only 50-point second halves in the last 25 years belong to Bryant (55 against Toronto in the 81-point game in 2006) and Booker (51 against Boston in his 70-point game in 2017).
In the last 25 years, nobody has had more first-half points in a game than Bryant, who had 42 against Washington in 2003. To get to 100 points, that’s two 50-point halves. James Harden has hit the 60-point mark four times, Damian Lillard three times, while Klay Thompson and LeBron James each got there once.īreak down the numbers, and it starts to make sense why nobody has come close. Carmelo Anthony and Stephen Curry each had a 62-point effort in the last decade. Even in this era in which 3-pointers are all the rage - remember, they were about two decades from existence when Chamberlain set the record - hardly anyone has gotten within 30 points of history.īooker got his 70-point game in 2017. Think about it: No player has gotten closer than 19 points to 100, and only five have come within 30 points. David Thompson scored 73, Elgin Baylor and David Robinson each scored 71, and Devin Booker had a 70-point game. Kobe Bryant scored 81 points for the Los Angeles Lakers one night against Toronto, the closest anyone has ever come to Chamberlain’s mark. But all in all, we're doing pretty well, gotta get a wood stove before the next storm.2022 NHL Awards: Auston Matthews Wins Hart, Igor Shesterkin Earns Vezina I still have a bunch of chainsaw work to do, we've got six big trees (100 footers) down on the end of the carport (my riding lawnmower leaped in front of the bullet that was meant for me) but missed the house. And since this only happens about one year in 4 or 5, we only have a handful of snow plows and sanders. I don't care where you live, no one can drive in this stuff, and unless they've repealed the law of Gravity, just because you can drive in Nebraska in snow doesn't mean that you can drive on hills, in ice. The snow hits the ground, melts and then freezes, more snow piles up on the ice, melts to slush, then freezes hard. It looks like a tornado touched down.Īnd don't let Kris fool you, when we get snow it's always bad. The crews clearing downed trees, splintered power poles, and re-stringing powerlines, told us that the area around my house was the worst they had seen. Kris and I live pretty much dead center in the zone. A bit to the North, the zone swings South, a bit to the South, the zone swings North. When weather comes more or less from due West, it swirls around the Olympic mountains. The Puget Sound has this thing called the Convergence Zone. It's been cold and dark, but there are still some folks without power, so I'm feeling pretty good. I'm just back online, we've been without power for 9 days, no power, no water (wells have electric pumps, who knew?). Weirdness is afoot! Edited Decemby Kristopher Skelton Sub freezing temps, freezing rain, I had 6" snow at my place and I'm in the suburbs near Puget Sound (so it's usually pretty temperate). It took until that Wednesday for the municipalities to get sand and de-icer trucks on the roads. The Saturday after Thanksgiving it started to snow. It's almost worse that there are still thousands without power and the utilities have sent people home telling them to rest up for the storm that's rolling in tonight. You can imagine what 90MPH winds do to folks around here
It rains frequently and the first couple of weeks of rain after summer make my normally 40 minute commute over and hour and a half. 1/4" of snow cripples this place like it's Armageddon. What he didn't tell you is that Seattle is the weather retard capital of the world. I'm in about the same neck of the woods as Finnigan.