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21-05-2025
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How will Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP run be remembered?
Yahoo Sports NBA contributing writer Tom Haberstroh and senior NBA writer Dan Devine highlight Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's stellar 2024-25 season and talk about his journey to becoming this year's winner. Hear the full conversation on 'The Big Number' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Shay Gildris Alexander is probably gonna be named the MVP. Advertisement He's the MVP in my book. He is by far the, the scoring leader this season, 32.7 points per game. And then when you look at the plus minus, the steals, the assist to turnover ratio, the lead. shit, I think is a big part of this and people are saying, Dan, like, free throw merchant, our favorite, Doris Burke is talking on the broadcast and bringing up that NBA Twitter believes he's a free throw merchant. I understand why people are frustrated with all the foul calls that he gets, because I think it's unusual the way that he gets these calls. But that's true for every superstar in the NBA. Jokic benefits from the whistle, Dodgeic benefits from the whistle. Advertisement LeBron does every MVP candidate in the NBA will get one or two calls a game that you're like, did he really foul him there? Do you have any thoughts on like how you'll look back? On this MVP race this season, one of the challenges with MVP voting, and I, I do have a ballot, and I did vote for Shay over Jokic in 2nd place. One of the challenges is balancing sort of the sober-minded statistical analysis with, I don't think that narrative is a dirty word. I think this is, I think storytelling is a really important part of our business and also of what our jobs are and what we do. To me, the Thunder were the story. Advertisement of this season. The driver of that literally and figuratively is Sha Gilda Alexander. Like they do not, yes, you can, you know, you can make the argument that he has the better supporting cast around him and Jokic has to do a heavier carry job and so on and so forth. And like everything about how Oklahoma City plays with the way that they structured the team to be a 5 out team with Chet at the big, the drive and kick, the guard guard screening actions, everything that kind of got. The ball rolling for Oklahoma City. All of that flows out from Gilous Alexander. This is not purely unethical hoops. There's more to it than that. Advertisement And then you like zoom out and it's 35 and 5, 50+% shooting with the steals and the blocks. And you're talking about Michael Jordan territory, like the, the in terms of production, not just from the guards, but from anybody, hitting those numbers, it's Jordan and it's SGA.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
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Dubs Talk: How Butler's injury could impact Warriors' NBA playoff strategy
Can Warriors hang on with Stephen Curry out for at least a week? Yahoo Sports contributing NBA writer Tom Haberstroh and NBA writer Dan Devine look at the impact of Steph Curry's first career hamstring injury on the Western Conference semifinals between the Golden State and Minnesota. Hear the full conversation on 'The Big Number' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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10-05-2025
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Tyrese Haliburton clutch again, continues ‘unreal' run
Yahoo Sports contributing NBA writer Tom Haberstroh and NBA writer Dan Devine go inside the numbers after Indiana's guard hit another game-winning shot in Game 2 against Cleveland. Hear the full conversation on 'The Big Number' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript When Tyrese Halliburton did the cojones, Eddie Howe, Sam Cassell dance, kind of felt like he should have gone with this one, the choke. Advertisement Oh, OK. Oh no. He's done it twice where he's had incredible comebacks against the Milwaukee Bucks and then again against Cleveland. Harkening back to Reggie Miller in the Pacers uniform, 8 points, 9 seconds. Come on now. You couldn't do the choke sign just like uh Reggie Miller. Like it it it's, it's such a layup to go with the choke hold. Damn, what do you think? What do you think about that? I mean, I don't know, I think he, he might not have made it out of Rocket Arena if he had done that. I feel like, you know, Cleveland's had problems in the past with people rushing the court, uh, you know, I, I don't know that I would have I would have wanted to, to test that theory out. Advertisement They were down 7, 48 seconds to go, and it happens again, according to ESPN Stats and Info. NBA teams are 3 and 1640 when they've been trailing by at least 7 points in the final minute of the fourth quarter overtime in the play by play era goes back to 1997. That is a winning percentage of 0.18%. 2 of those three wins are the Pacers in the last week. Yeah Per up to stats. Tyrese Halliburton is the only player in the last 20 years to rebound his own missed free throw and then hit a game winning 3 pointer in the last 15 seconds of a game. 20 years of games, one guy did it last night. That shot, that stepback 3 last night was his 10th make of the season to tie or take a lead in the last 2 minutes of the game. Advertisement Only Jalen Brunson, Nikola Jokic, and Tyler Hero have more, but here's the thing that differentiates him from them. It was his 10th make in 11 attempts in that setting. What? 1011 in those like do or die moments, go ahead shots with final two minutes, 4th quarter or overtime. He's 10/11, 10 of 11. He's 4 for 4 inside the arc, including the game winning series winning layup against Giannis, and now he's 6 for 7 on threes. That's a 90.9% field goal percentage. It is an unreal level of clutch time performance, and it has them two wins away from going back to a second straight Eastern Conference Finals with 4 for three of the next 4 games at home. Unbelievable.
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09-05-2025
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Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Indiana Pacers: live game updates, stats, play-by-play
Yahoo Sports contributing NBA writer Tom Haberstroh and NBA writer Dan Devine go inside the numbers after Indiana's guard hit another game-winning shot in Game 2 against Cleveland. Hear the full conversation on 'The Big Number' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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07-05-2025
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Can Warriors hang on with Steph Curry out for at least a week?
Can Warriors hang on with Steph Curry out for at least a week? | The Big Number Yahoo Sports contributing NBA writer Tom Haberstroh and NBA writer Dan Devine look at the impact of Steph Curry's first career hamstring injury on the Western Conference semifinals between the Golden State and Minnesota. Hear the full conversation on 'The Big Number' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript This week's big number is 0, as in, that is the number of games that Stephen Curry has missed in his 16-year career due to a hamstring injury. Advertisement This is not just a big deal for Stephen Curry and the Warriors. This is a big deal for the whole league right now because the Warriors are up 1-zip against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and they just have to hold serve. The stat is the Warriors have played 1,436 games in the Steph Curry era. And in that 1,000+ games stretch, they are a 53 win team, a win percentage of 646 with Stephen Curry in uniform. Without him on the floor, Dan. The Warriors fall from a 53 win team to a 32 win team. A win percentage of 392, that my friends, is impact. Jimmy obviously is more Batman than Buddy Hiel does, but if you have Jimmy operating as the like, I don't know, like, sort of like super Draymond as the, you know, I bring the ball up, I get us into our sets, I drive, I kick, I make sometimes Jimmy just needs to take the layup or take the floater. Advertisement I think that's generally the way it moves more and then if you've got doing that off the offball marathoning and and stressing out the defense by constantly being in motion, that might be the best way for this all to work. I think they still have a chance to win this series, obviously they're up 1-0, so the, the, the, the scales till a lot in your favor once you have an advantage there. And secondly, they stole home court, they did it at Minnesota. And then on top of that, like, as long as Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green are playing as well as they did in that game, if they can keep the Minnesota Timberwolves off the boards like they were in that game one, I think the Warriors still have a good shot here. Advertisement The games are coming every other day, game 1, game 2, game 3, game 4, game 5. So through 5, it's every other day, which makes it really hard to imagine Steph Curry coming back. Game 5 is Wednesday the 14th. Game 6, if you need it, is is Sunday the 18th. You've got 4 days off between game 5 and game 6 of this series if it goes that way. So if the Warriors can hold on, I think the likely or the opportunity for stuff to get back, get dramatically increases if you get to 6 and 76 would be in Golden State on the Sunday the 18th. If you get to that point, I would imagine the odds would be significantly better.
