Interesting NBA Stats

the nba season is still young, but it's not young enough to not know better. while i figure out what that was supposed to mean, here are some numbers i came across that caught my eye.

182: league leading free throws made by richard jefferson - if richard jefferson continues at this current pace, he'll finish the season with about 710 made free throws which would be 13th most in a single season all-time. and because i can't imagine a realistic scenario where richard jefferson is allowed to join a club where michael jordan, charles barkley, oscar robertson, and moses malone are members, i suspect david stern has another referee scandal on his hands.


9.1: mark madsen's field goal percentage - in 104 minutes this year, mark madsen is 1 of 11 from the field and 0 of 4 from the free throw line. i have no doubt that if all the people who ever went to stanford played a basketball game, mark madsen would get picked last. even after asian physics t.a.'s.

71: eric snow's field goal percentage - this is not a typo, eric snow is shooting... wait, that is a typo. eric snow is actually shooting 7.1% from the field. of the fourteen shots eric snow has attempted he has made only one. if eric snow and mark madsen played a game of horse, it would take three weeks before either one of them could make the joke "ha ha, you're a 'hor'".

66: blocked shots by josh smith - josh smith, at 6 feet, 9 inches tall, has the most blocks in the league. he's averaging 3.5 blocks per game and jumps more often than any other player in basketball.

57: blocked shots by all new york knicks - the knicks, at 98 feet, 9 inches tall, not only have the fewest blocks in the league, but also have been blocked the most times in the league.

0.0: averages of all non-minute stats for ronald dupree, stephane lasme, and marcus vincius - this big three has combined for six minutes and absolutely nothing else. hopefully, they all get traded to the same team so we can watch a game where one team violates the shot clock 70 times and fails to grab a single rebound.

138 and 46: keith bogans' respective field goal attempts from three and from two - so far this season, 75% of keith bogans shots have been from behind the arc. he's made 52 threes compared to 24 two's, which translates to 2.2 threes for every two. if this continues, hopefully bogans can convince dwight howard to also play this way. because then dwight would average 17.3 threes a game while increasing his scoring to 75.1 points per game. it would be insane.

11.9: number of threes salim stoudamire averages per 48 minutes - george mccloud holds the league record for 3-point attempts in a season and ray allen holds the record for most 3-pointers made in a season. salim is currently shooting threes more frequently than both of them. obviously, he has no conscience. which is also why he steals candy from babies.

2: league leading flagrant fouls by jamaal tinsley - this is almost as impressive as jamaal tinsley's league leading number of bullet holes in his car. seriously, why is jamaal tinsley always involved in incidents? i'm sure if the pacers just bought him a copy of guitar hero 3 he'd stop getting into so much trouble and instead not stop a rocking.

69.4: denver's opponents' free throw percentage - this is the lowest opponent's free throw percentage in the league which is good news for the nuggets since the also give up the 8th most points per game. the only explanation for their stellar free throw defense is that george karl devotes practice time for his team to practice taunting opposing free throw shooters. either that or marcus camby blocks a bunch of free throws when the refs aren't looking.

3: number of times rajon rondo has gone to the line and made both free throws - though rondo has improved his field goal percentage from .418 a season ago to .547 this year, his free throw percentage has plummeted from .647 to a horrid .485. rondo is only 6-1, which is too short to be an awful free throw shooter. this likely means that by the end of the season, rajon rondo will have grown 15 inches.

0: technical fouls assessed to the memphis grizzlies - in a bold strategy by new coach marc iavaroni, memphis has decided this year to not allow the other team get free points by keeping their composure throughout the game. as an unfortunate side effect, the grizzlies have become sterile and unemotional as if they were robots or perhaps even robots in disguise. though, if they were robots in disguise, why are they only 6-14? and why wouldn't the other grizzlies transform into rudy gays? i agree, this doesn't make any sense.

54.5: percentage of dwight howard's made field goals that have been dunks - dwight howard has 96 dunks on the year which is fifth best among league leaders. he only trails the denver nuggets, the los angeles lakers, the memphis grizzlies, and the utah jazz. yes, dwight howard has dunked more times than 25 other cities. one-third of his 287 field goal attempts have resulted in made dunks. and if this is the case, logically, dwight howard should start shooting from half court so we can see a half-court dunk on every third magic possession.

404: number of minutes that damon jones has played - i can't win with damon jones. if he plays more than zero minutes, i'm upset because he's awful. and if he plays zero minutes, i'm upset because he's on the bench cheering whenever lebron does something great as if lebron or any of his teammates enjoy his company. my only hope is to get an early copy of the mitchell report and replace all instances of the word "roger clemens" with "damon jones".

9: three-point attempts off the hands of mark blount - to be fair, mark blount has connected on four of his attempts from long range, which is three more than dwyane wade has made so far this year. but before last year, mark blount had attempted one career three pointer. since then, he's jacked 40 threes. clearly, the real mark blount has been kidnapped and the person playing sparingly for the heat is just some 7-foot european player wearing a mark blount mask.

4: number of all star votes i've cast for nick young so far - this would have been much more but for whatever reason, nba.com only lets fans vote once a day.

0: number of things that are dumber than not letting me vote for nick young 1,000 times a day - if i weren't inside right now, i'd use my outdoor voice to scream about nick young.