Big Mitch just posted this to his X feed on why he didnt share the story of him letting his high school coach stay with him after the coach lost his wife. Mitch just being his humble self.

Here’s the video of the coach’s interview: https://streamable.com/fxzd76

Link to X: https://x.com/23savage____/status/1730817095246417950?s=46&t=FRbLrtrSR1WROWKj9WBBhA

Source.

KAT is currently averaging 22.2 on 50.3-41.8-91.1 shooting splits, while Naz is averaging 12.6ppg on 51.4-40-90.6 shooting splits.

This is not a post crowning either of them as the newest members of the 50-40-90 club; it's really early in the season and is kind of an arbitrary mark to begin with. Just a few days ago, Halli was also at 50-40-90. There's no guarantee that either Naz or KAT stay at 50-40-90 (in fact, I would be shocked if they did). But it's pretty remarkable that not only are the only two players currently averaging 50-40-90 shooting splits both centers, but they both play for the same team.

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Jimmy Butler asked where he thinks this team stands 20 games into the season:

“We stand right where we don’t want to be, which is very mediocre. Not good, not bad, just mediocre.”

“You talk about our offense, it’s been mediocre. You talk about our defense, it’s been mediocre.”

Since joining the Clippers in 2019, Kawhi and PG have been often sidelined due to injuries and load management -- but now with both healthy, they're playing, and playing A LOT, in what looks to be a huge deviation from the Clippers' previous load management strategy.

Kawhi and PG have played in all 19 games this season (including back to backs) -- Kawhi racking up 653 total minutes so far, PG with 676. They are 13th and 26th respectively in total minutes played this season.

If they were to keep up this pace (and not miss a single game, which is unlikely) Kawhi would be on pace for 2821 total minutes and PG on pace for 2919 total minutes. Kawhi has averaged 1789 total minutes per season since joining the Clippers (not accounting for the entire season he missed in '21-'22), and PG has averaged only 1564 total minutes per year. They are on pace to blow past those minutes totals by the all-star break.

PG was an ironman in Indiana and OKC, in his age 22 season he played 2972 total minutes. He played 2600+ total minutes in 6 of his first 9 seasons. Kawhi on the other hand is playing an unprecedented amount of minutes, his most minutes played in a season was 2474 at age 25 with San Antonio.

This all coming on the heels of the NBA stating their data does not support that load management prevents injury and their new Player Participation policy. The Clippers too seem to have scrapped their load management strategy this season.

The Clippers are 9-10 after 19 games.

What a game! On 11/22 FG and 5/13 from 3. He played 46 minutes and had 7 turnovers. And was the force behind a 30-0 run lol. Mavs lose to the Thunder.

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401584915

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/players-with-35-points-15-reb-15-assist-games

This has only been done 10 times in NBA history.

Oscar Robertson did it FIVE times.

Luka Dončić twice. 36/15/18 and 36/16/15

Nikola Jokić, James Harden and Wilt Chamberlain all did it once.

An even more impressive part about Luka's game is that he had an assist for every 2 points he scored. 36 points and 18 assists in last night's loss against the Thunder.

Based on point per possession, these guys are the top 5:

(Player, Poss, PPP)

• Kristaps Porzingis, 2.1, 1.56
• Jayson Tatum, 2.9, 1.29
• Tobias Harris, 2.3, 1.21
• Anthony Davis, 4.4, 1.20
• Karl-Anthony Towns, 3.2, 1.18

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/playtype-post-up?CF=POSS*GE*2&dir=D&sort=PPP

Top 5 players with the most post-up possessions are:

• Nikola Jokic, 6.8, 1.13
• Joel Embiid, 6.1, 1.06
• Bam Adebayo, 5.0, 0.93
• Anthony Davis, 4.4, 1.20
• Julius Randle, 3.5, 0.90

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/playtype-post-up?dir=D&sort=POSS

AD is the only one being in both lists. Bam and Randle looking not very efficient posting up, but they still do a lot. Jokic, as usual, has the most post-ups with very respectable efficiency, shooting 57.3% from the field.

Other notable and interesting names:

• Devin Booker, 1.0, 1.56
• SGA, 1.7, 1.37
• Dario Saric 1.1, 1.29
• DeMar DeRozan, 2.3, 1.14
• Rudy Gobert, 1.4, 1.11
• LeBron James, 1.8, 1.03
• Giannis Antetokounmpo, 3.5, 0.82
• Zion Williamson, 3.2, 0.83
• Victor Wembanyama, 2.9, 0.89

The least efficient players with at least 1 possession per game:

• Evan Mobley, 1.1, 0.52
• Anthony Edwards, 1.1, 0.61
• Nikola Vucevic, 2.9, 0.72 (WOW)
• Jeremy Sochan, 1.2, 0.73
• Isaiah Stewart, 1.2, 0.74

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/playtype-post-up?dir=A&sort=PPP