Stroke. He. Up. These are NBA Twitter’s three favorite words, but they tend to be far less realistic than critics would like to accept. Fans think in terms of a binary championship. They want teams to compete directly for one or rebuild for that purpose. Owners treat victory like a specter. Championships are fun. Making profit is a necessity. Give most owners a few home playoff games while avoiding the luxury tax and they’ll be pretty happy.
Unsurprisingly, this kind of inertia tends to keep teams together well past their expiration date. There may be a dozen teams that need to be busted in any given season. We are lucky to see one or two teams pull the trigger. So let’s take a look at the leaderboard now and try to figure out who should and shouldn’t hit that big red button and start over. We’ll rank the 30 teams, starting with the least flammable in the NBA and working your way up.
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Tier 8: Explosive-free zone
30. Boston Celtics: Boston takes the cake as the NBA team that needs the least blast due to their obvious talent, youth and valuable contracts. Read also : Sex/Life Season 2: 6 Quick Things We Know About The Netflix Drama. The Celtics are as well built as an NBA team can realistically be.
29. Milwaukee Bucks: The Bucks could handle getting a little younger. Khris Middleton (31), Jrue Holiday (32) and Brook Lopez are all nearing the end of their bonuses, and there really is no internal plan to replace them for the second part of Giannis’ title window Antetokounmpo. But who cares ? The Bucks will be among the favorites for the next few years at least, and they can predict the future when it arrives.
28. Denver Nuggets: Injuries are a bit scary and they could use a little more defense, but the Nuggets have a two-time MVP who doubles as the NBA’s most enduring player. We are still four or five serious injuries from the moment of the panic.
27. Cleveland Cavaliers: Get some wings in the door and watch the titles roll in. Wings don’t exactly grow on trees, but 90% of team building here is complete and the main four are all 26 or younger. The idea here will be to work on the margins for one or two additional actors. If they can do that, they can compete for the next decade.
26. Memphis Grizzlies: Can Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. stay healthy? If so, we’re done here. Even if they struggle to do so, the Grizzlies have enough draft picks to trade for another major play if they want.
25. New Orleans Pelicans: Same concern as the Grizzlies, but with the caveat that Zion Williamson is a little riskier than Morant, CJ McCollum is older than Desmond Bane and the Grizzlies are probably slightly better placed to spend deep in tax. Either way, they’re both looking to add existing cores, not destroy the ones they have.
Tier 7: They’ve already blown up
24. Oklahoma City Thunder: They blew it up three years ago and have done most of their rebuilding already. Assuming Chet Holmgren is healthy next fall, they could easily move up into that first group. This may interest you : The best new TV shows of 2022 so far include Netflix’s Heartstopper and more streaming hits, according to IMDb users. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been so good that opposing teams can’t even leak fake trade rumors about him anymore. He’s going to be the face of a contender in Oklahoma in the very near future, and all of those last-ditch picks will be spent supporting him.
23. Orlando Magic: The Magic made one of the biggest explosive trades in NBA history at the 2021 trade deadline. With the exception of cap filler Otto Porter Jr., literally every asset that they recovered for Nikola Vucevic is currently more valuable than Nikola Vucevic: Franz Wagner is a star, Wendell Carter Jr. is one of the best young centers in the NBA and Chicago’s 2023 first round is looking very good right now . Couple all that with probable Rookie of the Year Paolo Banchero and the rebuild here is in great shape.
22. Detroit Pistons: They’ve made some strange veteran acquisitions in recent years, but none of them represent significant setbacks to long-term goals. Bojan Bogdanovic will ultimately be a good example of trade arbitrage, as the Pistons got him without giving up a first-round pick, but will get one when they trade him. Nerlens Noel and Alec Burks do not affect their long-term capitalization prospects. Marvin Begley’s contract was odd, but small enough to ultimately be harmless. They’re just waiting for another high lottery pick at this point. Pair this guy with Cade Cunningham and Jaden Ivey and you have the makings of a solid hope.
21. San Antonio Spurs: You can’t blow up a team that has nothing. There is nothing flammable. The most expensive Spur would be the sixth most expensive Clipper. Just report the “Stop, stop, he’s already dead” meme.
20. Houston Rockets: This is the Spurs, but two years later in the Tanks timeline. They could trade Eric Gordon, but literally every other player on this team who has played 400 minutes or more this season is 22 or younger, so it’s safer to keep an adult in the room.
19. Indiana Pacers: Tyrese Haliburton and Benedict Mathurin are the only definitive guards, but the Pacers could really go either way with Myles Turner. If they want to extend him, he is still only 26 and could be the center of a competitive team built around their two young guards. If they want to swap it out and extend the rebuilding phase a bit, that works too. They could even keep Turner and swap some of their reserve capital for another staple piece if they wanted, with Indiana alum OG Anunoby making a lot of sense if Toronto ever makes him available.
Tier 6: Hold the line
18. Los Angeles Clippers: If the Clippers stay healthy, they can win a championship. If they blow it, they would have to pick up four first-round picks for Kawhi Leonard and Paul George just to get back to neutral given their continued obligation to Oklahoma City. The advantage of detonating it is therefore minimal. To see also : 2022 NBA offseason grades for all 30 teams: Celtics put on masterclass; Lakers underwhelm; The wolf swings big. It’s not worth closing a league window to return to neutral when just waiting and trying to fight the current squad will get them there in a few years anyway. Leonard and George just aren’t reliable enough to put together worthwhile packages anymore.
17. Philadelphia 76ers: Even if the 76ers don’t win a championship with their current core, they have a very easy exit in the summer of 2024, when Joel Embiid, P.J. Tucker and Tyrese Maxey (presumably) will be their only contracted players. If James Harden doesn’t prove worthy of a contract extension, the Sixers can simply retool this team with cap space in two summers. If they’re really patient, they can wait out the 2025 cap peak knowing that Embiid and Maxey will have signed pre-peak extensions. Ultimately, as old as this team is and as much choice as it has given, the path to retooling is just too clear to justify swapping out a competitor’s core.
16. Phoenix Suns: Even if you think the Chris Paul Championship window is closed, Devin Booker, DeAndre Ayton, Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson are all 26 or younger. The gesture would not be to blow it up. That would be to take Paul’s partially guaranteed contract, tie up several first-round picks (and the Suns still have all of theirs available to them) and go for a younger point guard. Heck, it could be done on a smaller scale using Jae Crowder and Dario Saric’s expiring salaries. So of course a long-term Paul replacement is needed here, but the essentials of a very good team will remain in place.
Tier 5: Wait it out
15. New York Knicks: These two teams occupy similar structural positions to the three above them, but without the immediate championship equity. In both cases, it is more a question of “when” equity will develop than of “if”. We all know the plan now. The Knicks slowly built up a supporting cast for a star (or two) to be named later. They have the choices to get this star. We’re just waiting to fill the void. Would it make sense to trade resurgent Julius Randle should an offer arise? Yes, probably. He’s the most sane salary filler in the building besides Evan Fournier, and his fit with another heavy-duty ball-handler (especially now that Jalen Brunson has proven indispensable) isn’t ideal, but in the overall, things look peachy in the Big Apple.
14. Dallas Mavericks: Nothing that happens this season, other than an injury to Luka Doncic, really matters. The Mavericks have no intention of winning this season. It’s a sabbatical year. They’re running out of time until June, when they’ll deliver a first-round, top-10 pick to the Knicks that officially completes the Kristaps Porzingis trade. When the time comes, they’ll be free to offer a team the full boat, four unprotected first-round picks and three unprotected trades, for the sidekick Doncic desperately needs. All they have to do now is cut the noise for another six months. Just come into summer with those choices intact and the plan starts to make sense again. What if they find out which of their current cast might make sense in a team with Doncic and Eventual All-Star X? All the best.
Tier 4: What are we trying to do here?
13. Golden State Warriors: We know the two-step approach doesn’t disqualify the Warriors from the championship because, well, they just won the championship. But with Jordan Poole’s extension next season and all the reports that the Warriors don’t plan on paying half a billion dollars in payroll, they’re going to have to pick a path by this offseason. At least one of Poole, Andrew Wiggins, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green is likely to leave. It’s not a full explosion, but it’s a necessary move of consequence.
12. Los Angeles Lakers: The Lakers need to do something, as they currently have a team with limited short and long term upsides. The correct approach would have been to trade Russell Westbrook and their draft picks in the offseason. They didn’t do that. But they can’t go the other way just yet because LeBron James can’t be traded legally until the offseason and Anthony Davis is injured. If the plan was never to trade picks, you could argue the Lakers should have blown it over the summer when Davis and James would have had the best return, but the Lakers are vain enough to keep James. with no intention of facing off if it means watching him break the all-time record in their uniform. Ultimately, explosives of some sort are needed here, but James and Davis are still All-NBA players. They should try to work their way into the discord, not out of it. Blowing him up only makes sense if they refuse to capitalize on the window created by James and Davis. It could be a choice they made months ago, though, and if so, it makes a lot more sense to tear this thing down over the summer than trying to half measure their way to the second round next season.
11. Miami Heat: The Heat get (and deserve) a lot more credit than the Lakers, but their situations are pretty similar. Their team, as it is currently built, is not good enough to win the championship. This is what the team was built for. In a perfect world, they would increase. If they could trade all their remaining capital and some young talent for another star, they would. But, well, it didn’t get them Donovan Mitchell, and it probably won’t get them the next star to hit the market. The alternative would be to get out of the remaining three years on Jimmy Butler’s contract now while they have the chance. Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro are still young. The assets they would gain from a deal with Butler could be used to build a new winner around these two. If another star doesn’t come, trading Butler is probably their best long-term option. Given its durability issues, they might not have that chance in a year.
10. Brooklyn Nets: The Nets have won seven straight at the time of this writing. That kind of optimism is somewhat remarkable in light of the last year they’ve endured, but there’s so much reason to believe it’s a mirage. Their plus-2.7 net rating is still somewhat suspect by contender status, and that’s backed up by their unsustainable 12-3 record in the clutch. Speaking of unsustainable, the Nets are shooting a jaw-dropping 51.8% on midrange jumpers, and before you say “but Sam, they’ve got Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving!” I would point out that 51.8% is such a historical outlier that no other team in recorded NBA history has made more than 47.4% over a full season. Even the 2020-21 Nets, with Irving, Durant and James Harden, shot just 46.3%.
But let’s say you’re ready to ignore those red flags and sincerely believe the Nets are title contenders again. This group of players is so explosive that if the front office doesn’t decide to blow things up, the roster will light the fuse themselves. Do you trust Durant, Irving and Simmons to stay healthy for another six months? This trio has played just 308 games combined in the previous three seasons, not including this one. This represents approximately 45% of the regular season games their teams have played during this period. Do you trust Irving not to spark another controversy?
This is the real dilemma facing the Nets. Right now, their play has given them the power to move Durant for something close to fair value. It is not known how long this leverage effect lasts. At the end of the season, they must decide whether or not to re-sign Irving. It’s as close to a no-win scenario as any competitor can get. Bring him back and you’ve not only approved of the past actions you’ve tried to condemn, but you’ve opened yourself up to whatever he might say or do in the future. Let him go and you simply run out of resources to replace his talent. None of that matters if the Nets can win the title in the here and now, but the odds of it even being a true favorite (as the Nets learned in 2021) are relatively low. This may be their last window to properly blast it and get a head start on the next era of Nets basketball. As the last few weeks have passed, I would advise them to take it.
9. Sacramento Kings: Twitter user @BigRorDawg summed up the situation Sacramento is in now perfectly, so I’ll let it go from here.
The Kings gave Tyrese Haliburton a franchise player. It happened. It’s finish. But the Kings are farmers, not socialites. Their goal is not to win the championship. It’s to make the playoffs. Domantas Sabonis is going to help them make the playoffs. Now, when we say a team should “blow it up”, we usually mean it because of a lack of fairness in the league. The Kings do not have an ounce. While their defense has improved in the 19th with a strong recent streak, Davion Mitchell is the only player in their rotation who could be described as a consistent, undeniable positive at this end of the field. When spring rolls around, playoff-caliber offenses are going to torture Sabonis pick-and-roll due to his limited mobility and the Kings are going to be knocked out soon enough. We can all agree on that. By traditional standards of explosive ability, the Kings might as well have bathed in gasoline. But these humble farmers waited 17 years for their playoff harvest to arrive, so let’s just enjoy their first streak of competitive basketball in nearly two decades and worry about the Ferrari they later traded. .
8. Portland Trail Blazers: Portland is the organic, handcrafted version of Sacramento. They’re over .500! The offense reigns! Damian Lillard is happy in Portland! That’s fine, and if the goal here is just to stay competitive for Lillard’s sake, they’re fine. But their 22nd-ranked defense rules them out of the league table. It will be until they upgrade Jusuf Nurkic (which won’t be easy given his age, injury history, and $70 million contract), and even then , their reliance on smaller guards limits their advantage. Shaedon Sharpe has looked so promising that a star trade could be achievable if the right player comes on the market, but the first round they currently owe Chicago is so protected that they effectively can’t trade another first. tower without entirely removing these protections. .
Portland has already lost the playoffs to Western Conference heavyweights Denver and Golden State with essentially this formula. The gap between her and the real newcomers like Memphis and New Orleans is widening day by day. A star trade is the only way the Blazers can close that gap during Lillard’s prime. If we’re being honest with ourselves, their best chance of developing championship equity in the near future would be to deal Lillard while he’s bringing one more trait back and then use that trait to make sure their backcourt of the future, Sharpe and Anfernee Simons, has the size and defensive support around them that Lillard and CJ McCollum never had.
Of course, Lillard made it clear he didn’t want to be traded. This apparently took a trade off the table. I’d like to remind the Blazers that teams are technically allowed to trade star players whether or not they want to be traded and they should probably act in their own best interests, but Lillard is so beloved in the Portland community that they almost certainly won’t. So here we are. There are worse fates than seeing a team icon lose in the first round every spring, but the price you pay is knowing everyone involved could do better.
Tier 3: Let’s talk in July
7. Atlanta Hawks: I don’t think it’s quite time to let go of that core. Trae Young’s shot will eventually regress to average. They can find a coach with more modern sensibilities to solve the problem between him and Dejounte Murray. There are still a lot of young talents here. It takes a lot to justify the departure of a 24-year-old All-NBA point guard. We are not there yet. But it’s getting harder and harder to deny that all the smoke here is from some kind of fire. There are almost certainly Young-related issues in that locker room, and the guy who traded him, Travis Schlenk, is no longer running basketball operations after general manager Landry Fields was promoted to his chair. Young has four years left on his contract, but due to the CBA’s restrictive rules governing extensions, Murray, who has just a year and a half left on his contract, will almost certainly become an unrestricted free agent in 2024. This puts quite a bit of pressure on Fields to pick a direction sooner rather than later. If things haven’t improved by July, they’ll have to explore something drastic. For now, though, focus on tweaking the supporting cast. I heard John Collins is available.
6. Minnesota Timberwolves: Let’s put that aside: the Timberwolves should try to trade Rudy Gobert today. They won’t because of the sunk cost fallacy, but those five first-round picks they gave up are gone and not coming back. The Gobert experiment does not work. It will get worse with age. If they act now, they could probably opt out of the last three years of his contract and claw back an asset or two in the process. If they don’t do it now, they see the barrel of three more years of top salary for an aging center making life harder for their two best players. No team has ever admitted their mistake on a trade of such magnitude so quickly. Frankly, no NBA general manager has ever been humble enough to do that, and chances are the new Timberwolves owners Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore aren’t either. But the alternative here would be to waste the two All-Stars who are already in the building.
Anthony Edwards has All-NBA potential. Karl-Anthony Towns was there a year ago. There is still time to put a coherent roster around them both. It gets a lot tougher once Edwards signs his max extension this offseason. Keeping this current group together dooms the Edwards-Towns duo to the middle of the Western Conference for years to come. They have no cap flexibility or provisional capital to improve. Play too long and they might need to hand out towns just to save future retooling around Edwards. If this all sounds grim, well, it should. That’s what happens when you screw up the biggest trade in franchise history. There is no good option here. We choose between a list of bad. At least moving Gobert now gives them time to figure something else out. They won’t, however, and in all likelihood that means things will get worse before they get better.
Tier 2: You might want to get ahead of this thing …
5. Toronto Raptors: There’s nothing inherently wrong with Toronto’s core. Things might look better if Scottie Barnes had a better second season, but the real problem facing the Raptors is lack of depth. It’s a fixable problem, but maybe not forever. Fred VanVleet will be a free agent after the season. Pascal Siakam and OG Anunoby will be in 2024. All three deserve substantial increases. With Barnes still two and a half years away from his second contract increasing his own salary, this outlay should inform how the Raptors build long-term roster plans. At their current numbers, these four players are cheap enough to be surrounded by significant depth. The Raptors just haven’t done a great job. But at their new prices? This work becomes much more difficult.
VanVleet’s situation is most urgent simply because of his impending free agency. This is what pushes Toronto in this level: it may not even be able to wait for the summer to remedy its situation. If the Raptors don’t plan to pay him, they should start considering trades immediately. If they do? All eyes are on Anunoby, Twitter’s favorite business candidate. He is one of 30 teams. He also seems to want to handle the ball more often. The Raptors don’t have a contact to give him if VanVleet stays. Above all that, the fact that Siakam and VanVleet are seven years older than Barnes. There is going to be some major overlap. We don’t know how much.
The Raptors need less of a demolition and more of a few controlled explosions. Which is the priority: the Barnes/Anunoby timeline or the Siakam/VanVleet timeline? Will they eventually decide to dedicate the resources currently allocated to one of the four main ones to a more traditional center? Or can they go the other way, deflecting the depth issues altogether by grouping all of their first-round picks with mid-level salaries like Gary Trent Jr., Thaddeus Young and Chris Boucher to go for a fifth cornerstone and hope they can build a bench on the sidelines? There is no obvious answer here. It’s just not the status quo. As much as we all appreciate their “everyone is 6-8” approach to basketball, the bad vibes and skill redundancies are starting to take their toll on the 14-18 Raptors. Fortunately, with Masai Ujiri at the helm, they are as well equipped to answer those questions as any basketball team.
4. Utah Jazz: Remember the 2013-14 Phoenix Suns? They tried to tank and ended up winning 48 games behind most improved player Goran Dragic. Two years later, they have won 23 games. Something resembling that trajectory is probably what the Jazz should be aiming for, though frankly, they’ve done such a good job in the trades of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert that 23 wins probably won’t be realistic for a while. Still, that doesn’t mean it makes sense to dedicate assets, and perhaps more importantly time, to this feel-good story. The sole purpose of the Mitchell and Gobert trade was to get out of the second-round purgatory that those two were trapped in. You don’t do that by adding, say, John Collins to a team led by Lauri Markkanen.
Danny Ainge knows it. He was the one who traded Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, after all. So what’s the game here? Markkanen and Collin Sexton are the only veterans under contract beyond next season, and moving some of these guys is a bit more urgent than you might think. Jordan Clarkson has a player option for next season, and depending on how he’s been playing, he’s going to opt out and ask for a bigger deal. Giving it to him locks the Jazz in that treadmill. Is a Markkanen exchange feasible? Well, history says yes. Remember, the Suns traded Dragic less than a year after he was named All-NBA guard. This deal not only pushed them to the bottom of the league, but they eventually used one of the picks they received in the trade to move to Mikal Bridges. The Jazz don’t have to rush into a Markkanen trade. If he continues to play as an All-Star, Utah would be absolutely right to keep him.
But the goal here is to land stars who can propel the Jazz into the title picture. Tanking is the easiest way to get these players. Some teams might be able to parlay the mountain of picks Ainge has accumulated in these players, but will these players want to stay in Utah? Sure, they could try to use those picks to trade in the draft and catch those players before they’re famous, but that’s easier said than done. Sam Presti attempted to do just that in 2021 by trading for Evan Mobley. The Cavs didn’t bite. When it comes to draft picks, quality beats quantity. Ainge’s latest contender was built around two No. 3 overall picks. It might take him a year or two to strip this team far enough to get there, but he will eventually.
Tier 1: Can I offer you this lit match?
3. Charlotte Hornets: To borrow a point from the great John Hollinger, the Hornets are the rare team that literally hurts every piece of the roster build. They’re ridiculously cheap, generally bad at scouting, and are perpetually battling for a No. 8 seed. Gordon Hayward’s contract made no sense at the time. Terry Rozier’s deal was even more confusing. Everyone not named LaMelo Ball should be available now. Given the many shortcomings of this front office, its only real hope of salvation is the lottery.
And hey, what if Victor Wembanyama wears teal next season? Things will probably go well. In the most likely event that he isn’t, we really have to start wondering what their plan really is to fight Ball, because on paper he’s exactly the kind of superstar who should turn down a rookie extension and plan to leave Charlotte as a 2025 unrestricted free agent through his qualifying offer. He earns enough off the court to risk turning down a guaranteed maximum contract (and it doesn’t hurt that he has another wealthy NBA player in the family), his family history suggests that he’d rather be in a big market, and even if he wouldn’t, the Hornets give him little reason to believe in their future. If the lottery gods aren’t smiling on them in May, it might be a good idea to preemptively look into dealings with Ball. Better that than waiting for him to force your hand later.
2. Chicago Bulls: Forget age, injuries and the top four picks protected by the Orlando Magic. If anyone argues that the Bulls shouldn’t blow it all up and should instead wait for this team to get healthy, kindly remind them that the team they would be waiting for was outscored last season. The Bulls scored 9,152 points last season and allowed 9,184. Considering the age and durability issues of DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, Nikola Vucevic and Lonzo Ball, it’s hard to imagine a better result from this foursome than playing in 76% of Chicago’s games. That’s what they did a season ago, and that best-case scenario led to a negative point differential. This is not a team worth preserving. Literally everyone should be on the table. The Bulls saw firsthand what a great draft pick can do when they handed Wagner to Orlando on a silver platter. If they have a path to these two juicy future Lakers picks, they have to take it. Even if they don’t, it’s time to start preparing for the 2024 draft. What if they, at 13-18, can sneak into the bottom four on lottery night? So that’s just the icing on the cake.
1. Washington Wizards: Washington’s commitment to win 35 games instead of 25 was cute. It’s about to get dangerous. Bradley Beal’s five-year deal (including no-trade clause) is going to look ugly in a year or two if he doesn’t start making 3s again. Kyle Kuzma is already planting seeds for his eventual exit, and if Washington is counting on Kristaps Porzingis to be Beal’s sidekick, well, just ask Dallas how it will go. None of Washington’s recent lottery picks have come up offensively. Johnny Davis was unplayable as a rookie. Monte Morris, Will Barton and Delon Wright are here for reasons that remain unclear.
The Wizards are going to be a 20-win team in two or three years. It will happen. It’s inevitable. They can choose to get there proactively and productively by trading Beal and Kuzma for value while they have the chance and letting Porzingis walk at the end of his contract. Or they may be forced into tanking when their best players age or get injured from lack of productivity. For now, the choice is theirs. In a few months, this will no longer be the case.
What was the worst NBA loss?
On December 17, 1991, the most lopsided game in NBA history took place, seeing the Miami Heat lose to the Cleveland Cavaliers 148-80.
What is the biggest loss in NBA history? T-1. 58 – St. Louis Hawks at Minneapolis Lakers, March 19, 1956.
Who lost by 70 points in an NBA game?
#5 Wilt Chamberlain – 70 points (lost to Syracuse Nationals)
Who has scored 80 points in the NBA?
Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game is almost as famous as Chamberlain’s. It’s the only other time in NBA history that a player has scored 80 or more points in a game, and only one other player (Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns) has reached 70 points. points since then.
How many players have scored 80? These two players are Wilt Chamberlain and LeBron James. That’s it.
How many NBA players scored over 70 points?
#1 Wilt Chamberlain Not only is he one of six players with a 70-point game in his NBA career, but Chamberlain is also the only player in NBA history with multiple games of at least 70 points (he did it six times).
Who scored 90 points in a NBA game?
Wilt Chamberlain had the most games with 90 points, with 1 game.
Who scored 100 points in a NBA?
On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain tallied 100 points for the Warriors in a 169-147 victory. Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points to set an NBA single-game record.
Who lost by 70 points in the NBA?
Oklahoma City Thunder lose by an NBA-record 73 points – The New York Times. N.B.A.
Who lost by 73 points in an NBA game? The Memphis Grizzlies, playing without star point guard Ja Morant, beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 152-79 on Thursday, an NBA record for the widest margin of victory (73 points). The previous record was 68 when the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148-80 at home on December 17, 1991.
Who has dropped 70 points in NBA?
#1 Wilt Chamberlain Not only is he one of six players with a 70-point game in his NBA career, but Chamberlain is also the only player in NBA history with multiple games of at least 70 points (he did it six times). He also has the most 60-point games in NBA history (32) and 50-point games (118).
How many 70 point games have there been?
This feat has been accomplished 80 times in NBA history. Thirty-two players have scored 60 or more points in a game, while only six players have joined the 70-point club.
Who is the number 1 NBA team?
| Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| R k | Team | Record |
| #1 | KEY | 22-11 |
| #2 | New Orleans Pelicans NO | 19-12 |
| #3 | BOS | 22-10 |
Who is the number 1 in the West NBA? The Phoenix Suns are 1st in the Western Conference with a 13-6 record.
Who is the best NBA team 2022?
2022 NBA Power Rankings: Utah Jazz take top spot after strong streak
- 01 Utah Jazz. Sports Images from USA Today.
- 02 Golden State Warriors. Sports Images from USA Today. …
- 03 Phoenix Suns. Sports Images from USA Today. …
- 04 Chicago Bulls. Sports Images from USA Today. …
- 05 Milwaukee dollars. …
- 06 Miami Heat. …
- 07 Brooklyn Nets. …
- 08 Cleveland Cavaliers. …
