NBA Highlights

Jaxson Hayes flies in for the nasty putback and JJ Redick is amazed
https://streamable.com/7hxo4

Giannis uses his footwork to fake out Embiid in the post for the easy lay-in
https://streamable.com/5udkr

The Houston Rockets (33-18) defeat the Los Angeles Lakers (38-12), 121-111

KAT is ecstatic as he greets D'Angelo Russell in Minnesota
https://streamable.com/8rdtl

Shaq on why Embiid is soft
https://streamable.com/5fhxn

Rockets center, James Harden loses opening tip to Javale
https://streamable.com/74xnv

Chuck on the Sixers: "I think they are the softest, mentally weakest team that had a bunch of talent. They are the Cleveland Browns of the NBA. They've got a lot of talent and they talk the talk, but that's it."
https://streamable.com/vqler

The Rockets who did not play a player over 6'6 just beat the first seed Lakers who started a 6'8 point guard, 6'10 PF and a 7'0 C

Robert Covington drills another three to put the Rockets up 9 late in the 4th quarter

Robert Covington in his first game as a Houston Rocket: 14 Points, 8 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 2 Steals, and 2 Blocks

LeBron hammers home a reverse windmill in transition
https://streamable.com/1pg07

Enes Kanter celebrates surviving the trade deadline and staying a Celtic
https://streamable.com/qm3iz

Russell Westbrook vs. the Los Angeles Lakers: 41 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal, 17-28 (61%) FG, 1-2 (50%) 3pt FG, 6-8 (75%) FT, +12, W.

Giannis slams back the missed shot
https://streamable.com/95nn7

The Milwaukee Bucks (44-7) defeat the Philadelphia 76ers (31-21) by the score of 112-101 behind Giannis' 36 points, 20 rebounds and 6 assistsa)

The Rockets just beat the Lakers despite Robert Covington, who is 6’7”, being the tallest player to play minutes for them tonight

The Lakers only grabbed one more rebound than the Rockets (38 vs. 37), including the same number of offensive board (6 vs. 6)

Westbrook sprints down the lane and smashes it in
https://streamable.com/t1lf2

Giannis tonight: 36 points, 20 rebounds, 6 assists

Zion throws down the lob from Lonzo
https://streamable.com/b6ojl

Covington blocks Davis from behind
https://streamable.com/3heh7

Lakers are 0-5 against teams with centers deemed incapable of guarding AD

James Harden's gravity is ridiculous

AD draws the reach-in foul on Covington
https://streamable.com/r5jry

Harden Iso's on Davis and gets his 3 blocked
https://streamable.com/yw26x

Despite the final minute, the New Orleans Pelicans (21-31) defeat the Chicago Bulls (19-34) 125-119

Harden tries to draw a 3 shot foul and gets called for an offensive foul instead
https://streamable.com/ojinv

With his 34th point of the night, Russell Westbrook has reached 20,000 career points

Lakers are now 1-7 against Bucks, Clippers, Celtics, Raptors, Sixers and Rockets

Zion now has 4 straight 20-point games which is the longest streak by any rookie this season

Covington pins McGee's shot against the backboard
https://streamable.com/eearp

Covington with a clutch tough corner 3 over AD and the Lakers bench can't believe it
https://streamable.com/iid72

Westbrook shakes Davis and finishes the reverse layup
https://streamable.com/s8l9b

Felicio with the dagger on his own basketHighlights
https://streamable.com/dqo00

Lakers big ball lineup has nobody to guard the new look Rockets (

Caruso pulls out a Marcus Smart special to draw an offensive foul on the inbound
https://streamable.com/f4osx

Bucks chemistry is amazing

Embiid tonight 6/26(23%) 3/10 from 3, 19 pts, 11 reb

Kyle Kuzma last game before Trade Deadline : 18 pts on 7/11 FG. Kyle Kuzma first game after Trade Deadline : 4 pts on 2/8 FG

The Lakers are an incredibly boring and sloppy team for a title contender. Their two superstars, who are supposed to make the team fun to watch, don’t play many minutes, Lebron plays the lowest minutes of his career and Anthony Davis is constantly injured. I'd rather watch the Clippers, the Celtics, Heat or pretty much any other team rather than a Lakers game. The most excitement you could get from this team during the regular season is seeing JaVale taunt another player and then get ejected or get dunked on by said player. They don't even have any narrative going on, just a plain boring ass team.

After Losing to the Bucks on the road, the Philadelphia 76ers now have a home record of 22-2 and a road record of 9-19.

Sixers force Giannis to shoot the 3 and he airballs, on the next play he comes back and plays bully ball with Horford for the slam
https://streamable.com/bvxjw

Rockets' micro ball should be inspiring to us regular humans

Russell Westbrook finishes the third quarter with 31-5-5 on 67.7% TS

Philadelphia from three tonight: 19/45 (42.2%). Philadelphia from 4 feet to the three-point line: 8/37 (21.6%)

Giannis Antetokounmpo Drops 36 Pts, 20 Rebs vs 76ers | Feb 6, 2020

Zion splits the Bulls defenders with the behind the back and finishes the tough And-1
https://streamable.com/bepxz

Giannis spins around Embiid for the Lay-in
https://streamable.com/ape8p

Hassan Whiteside finishes with 17 points (8-10 FG), 23 rebounds, and 4 blocks

The Rockets' physical disadvantage is giving them an advantage psychologically against the Lakers

Giannis with the backdoor pass and the jam from Connaughton
https://streamable.com/sh41b

Adam Mokoka is currently averaging 105 points per 36 minutes. He put up 15 points in 5 minutes in an attempted comeback until Cristiano Felicio scored on own bucket.

Al Horford and Joel Embiid combined took 22 3 point shots, Ben Simmons did not take a single jump shot

Al Horford and Joel Embiid shot 11-43; Ben Simmons had 6 FGA

Michael Carter-Williams tries to bully Dennis Smith Jr in the post but gets his weak shit swatted
https://streamable.com/ocnb3

Connaughton throws down the putback slam off of Korver's miss
https://streamable.com/ogud9

Barrett gets the and-1 to drop! Vucevic loses his cool, wacks the stanchion and picks up a technical
https://streamable.com/f25i4

The Knicks hound the Magic to get the winning stop and Randle drops the Hammer after the buzzer
https://streamable.com/xr6nw

Simmons with the 720 noscope on the fastbreak
https://streamable.com/rlhg2

Lebron lobs it up to Davis for the throwdown
https://streamable.com/5l335

Alex Caruso has been the 2nd best defensive guard in the league, according to both ESPN's Real Plus-Minus and 538's RAPTOR metric.

Elfrid Payton has a career high of 7 steals tonight

Block by Randle leads to the alley-oop from DSJ to Robinson
https://streamable.com/vtt92

Nicolas Batum has played a whopping 79 points all season in 505 minutes played. He is averaging 5.6 points per 36 minutes, or 7.8 points per 100 possessions. Both averages are rock bottom in the NBA.

Laker's struggles against contenders continue and they're now 5-5 overall in last 10 games

Avery Bradley deserves way more credit as a defender

Connaughton blocks the shot attempt but gets repaid at the other end by Simmons
https://streamable.com/30hf5

KCP with the worst three shots in a row ever
https://streamable.com/qic7a
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Serge Ibaka won more games in the 2010s than any player in the NBA besides LeBron James
https://in.nba.com/news/which-players-have-the-most-total-wins-in-the-nba-in-the-2010s-decade-serge-ibaka-lebron-james-james-harden-kevin-durant/17bf4l4uf8m591n87gruno3ezg

I’m glad Houston won last night for multiple reasons, but my favourite is seeing all the people who usually complain about every team playing the same way are now complaining about the Rockets literally unprecedented style.

Where were you when the Rockets eliminated the Center position for future generations of basketball? February 6, 2020 is the day the Rockets showed the Basketball world you don’t need a Center to compete. Harden, PJ Tucker, Westbrook, Convington, it doesn’t matter... they’re all doing fine at the center position guarding Anthony Davis who’s a top 5 player. It could certainly work even better with a non elite Center. And don’t have to worry about clogging up the pace or passing to a guy that can only catch lobs... all of them are agile enough to shoot and create offense. Once again heading towards a position-less basketball. Morey is a genius and comes from the future. I feel like I’m watching myteam with this extreme 5-out

The Wizards are two games in the loss column away from the 8 Seed

Throwback when Livingston crossed Harden so hard you can see the confusion in his eyes.
https://i.redd.it/gsog54ntdif41.jpg

Yep agreed: This idea that Wiggins goes to GSW and become Iguodala because Iguodala was another guy who can't shoot before joining the GSW. Iggy is a genius, he see stuff on the floor only 7 guys in NBA can see. Wiggins is not a genius, he just not very good. 

Teams shouldn't double Harden or Westbrook, defend them 1-on-1 and let them get their 35 each. That's only 70.
https://streamable.com/htn29

Steve Kerr on D’Angelo Russell: “To be blunt, the fit was questionable when we signed him (from a positional standpoint).”
https://streamable.com/prwcw

The Raptors "monkey-in-the-middle" the Sixers with a crisp passing play into a Marc Gasol triple (January 22)
https://streamable.com/1rezs

Adam Mokoka from the Chicago Bulls has scored the fastest 15+ points in a game in the shot clock era (since 1954-55) just in 158 seconds.

Warriors are signing guard Jeremy Pargo of G-League affiliate Santa Cruz to a 10-day deal, league source tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. This is like a season-long training camp x make-a-wish program to let random people play for an GSW. Warriors need to pull deep into G league teams to get the guys like Heat, Spurs and Raptors been getting.

D'Angelo Russell has had one of the craziest starts to his career of anyone I can remember. He entered the league and was a rookie on the Kobe retirement tour, he had a subpar second year and got washed out of LA after only two seasons with a pretty big weird scandal (nick young video). Then went to brooklyn had his career resurrected. Then he developed into an eastern conference all star. Then he was traded for KD, played pretty well as the best player in GS, then traded to the Timberwolves at the trade deadline. Now he is 23 and on his 4th team, he was a top 5 pick, then a bust and then an all star. I can't wait to see where he goes over the next 10 years as he enters his prime. Dude's lived a 15 year career in like 4 years. Very well traveled.