Basketball Reference

Get in touch with Basketball Reference 🏀 Visit us at basketball-reference.com 🏀 Find us on social media sports-reference.com/blog/sports-re… 🏀 Email us sports-reference.com/feedback

A star-studded day in NBA history today!

I've seen box plus/minus nitpicked a lot over the last few years. It has, like any catch-all, its flaws. But it's easily searchable all the way back to 1973 (good for NBA history nerds like me), and the career top three is the three best basketball players I've ever seen. So... (first picture is the regular-season leaderboard, second picture is playoffs).

Top 10, per @Stathead

Rudy Gobert has four Defensive Player of the Year wins. During his career, his regular-season net rating swing is +6.7, and his playoff net rating swing is +4.7. He's 87th in career regular and postseason wins over replacement player, ahead of Joel Embiid and Draymond Green.

Real ones know.

Cool addition to Basketball-Reference .com that I didn't notice till today. Scroll down on the homepage, and you'll get to the standings for various international leagues.

Check out Sports-Reference.com They have a majorly updated search! 1. You can search across all sports on one page 2. You can search by nicknames 3. Now has a more forgiving "fuzzy search" capability, meaning that spelling doesn't need to be perfect to get the right results

I see that the new @sports_ref search feature is working perfectly.

Guessing many of y’all use @sports_ref for just about everything like me. 🏀 🏈⚽️⚾️ There’s now a brand new feature at Sports-Reference.com where you can now search every name in the database across every sport all in one place! 🔽

Pardon?

What first or last name can produce the greatest resume in sports? Check out the new @sports_ref search features and see if you can get better names than this. 👀

Sports Reference released a new search feature, no longer do you have to go to a specific Reference page to find your player. Super neat and makes researching players a lot quicker. Just use sports-reference.com!

Every sophomore here is participating in summer league besides two, and they play for the same team.

Some big events across the NBA on this date:

The WNBA record for consecutive 25-point games, irrespective of position, is eight. Halfway there.

Kyle Lowry totaled 18,209 points, 7,840 assists, 5,553 rebounds & 1,675 steals in the regular & postseason. James Harden, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, Gary Payton & Russell Westbrook are the only players in NBA history to match or exceed all four marks.

New Celtics Paul George and Mike Conley both set career scoring highs during the 2018-2019 season. How long ago was that? Here's what the Celtics roster looked like that season...

LeBron leaves the Lakers with the 10th-most points in franchise history and the 5th-most assists in franchise history Top 10 in Lakers points: 1.) Kobe Bryant (33,643 PTS) 2.) Jerry West (25,192 PTS) 3.) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (24,176 PTS) 4.) Elgin Baylor (23,149 PTS) 5.) Magic Johnson (17,707 PTS) 6.) James Worthy (16,320 PTS) 7.) Shaquille O’Neal (13,895 PTS) 8.) Gail Goodrich (13,044 PTS) 9.) Byron Scott (12,780 PTS) 10.) LeBron James (12,402 PTS) Top 5 in Lakers assists: 1.) Magic Johnson (10,141 AST) 2.) Kobe Bryant (6,306 AST) 3.) Jerry West (6,238 AST) 4.) Norm Nixon (3,846 AST) 5.) LeBron James (3,808 AST) LeBron is the only player in NBA history to rank in the top 10 in both points and assists for three different franchises. Los Angeles Lakers • 10th in points (12,402 PTS) • 5th in assists (3,808 AST) Miami Heat • 5th in points (7,919 PTS) • 6th in assists (1,980 AST) Cleveland Cavaliers • 1st in points (23,119 PTS) • 1st in assists (6,228 AST) Data via @bball_ref / @Stathead

LeBron James had 12,402 points, 3,808 assists, 3,680 rebounds, 552 steals and 297 blocks in eight seasons with the Lakers. There are only 36 others in NBA history who hit all five of those marks for their entire careers. Most of them are in or will be in the Hall of Fame.