Quote of the day
"It's not a challenge for me to score 38 points, you know? If that's the benchmark, that's all you need to do, that's not really hard to do that. … The scoring title is not that important. We know I can do it. We know I can go out and score 38 points. The most important thing is sending the right message to the group, which is putting a championship above all else. That means rest." -- Kobe Bryant, who sat out the final game of the regular season, effectively conceding the NBA season scoring title to Kevin DurantDaily blurb
The NBA regular season is on the books. It’ll likely be remembered as the strike-shortened season with the compact schedule, and with more than its share of injuries. And it will also be remembered as the season of futility for the Charlotte Bobcats.
Michael Jordan will always be remember as #23. But the number now takes on another, more sinister meaning, as Jordan’s Bobcats closed out the season with 23 consecutive losses, securing the all-time NBA record for the worst winning percentage of .106 (7-59), eclipsing the prior mark of .110 (76ers, 1972-73, 9-73). Given the way they were trending, it’s probably just as well that the season was shortened. They would have needed two more wins to avoid finishing below .100!
Congrats to the Luebeck Eagles, who repeated as champions of the 2011-12 RIHC with a dominating margin of victory. It’s instructive to note that he did it while punting the blocks category – and had enough of a margin that he could have punted a second category!
Although I’ve now shuffled the left menu panel to put baseball on top, I’m going to try to continue to produce hoops stats as long as the three affiliated daily contest sites continue to offer NBA contests.