NBA players like to play it cool sometimes and tell you they don’t care about stats and they just want to win.
Listen. That is not true. I don’t care what they say. They do care about their stats. Do those stats come over the win? Of course not. But they absolutely care about stats. It’s why Kevin Durant doesn’t shoot halfcourt heaves and why LeBron James is averaging 30 in a losing season trying to chase Kareem.
Stats matter, man. They are benchmarks. That’s why when Anthony Edwards was absolutely gunning for 50 points in Thursday’s Timberwolves game against the Spurs, I couldn’t blame him! If I’m being real I’d probably do it, too.
The Basketball Gods were hating on our guy, though. He just missed it.
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