The NBA is too good now
The league can't stop making baskets, which is not great
Some NBA players did awfully well over the NFL’s penultimate playoff weekend and we can’t have that. Something must be wrong, if NBA players are going right.
How right? Right past defenders, if we’re calling them “defenders.”
Superstar scorers sizzling with numbers to fizzle your father’s radio transistors. Devin Booker dropped 62 on Friday against the Pacers, 29 in the first quarter, a week after Booker cranked 25 in the first quarter (and 52 in the game) against New Orleans. Luka Dončić enjoyed 73 against Atlanta the night of Booker’s 52.
Outrageous output, with the NFL’s Lions (31) and 49ers (34) dropping sensible, waist-sized scores for men.
Earlier in the week Joel Embiid managed 70 against San Antonio, 2023-24 is the first time two NBA players cooked 70 points in a season since, well, last season. In 1960-61 Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor came close, Baylor hit 70 but Chamberlain only topped out at 67 points. Probably because Wilt didn’t have access to the same sort of low-calorie energy drinks available to us in our far-flung future.
