Sad fact: Injury-ravaged Indiana’s 1-12 start is the worst for a team that reached the prior season’s NBA Finals since Milwaukee’s 1-12 start in 1974-75.

Fun fact: Cooper Flagg has played 441 minutes for the Mavs this season, more than Anthony Davis has in his Mavs career (415).

Most fast break points in a game this season: 36 - Raptors on Nov 8 at PHI 34 - Raptors on Oct. 22 at ATL 33 - Raptors tonight at IND 33 - Mavs on Nov. 8 at WAS 33 - Hawks on Nov. 12 at SAC

Raptors were 2-45 when going down by 10 or more last season. They came back from down 10 tonight, their fourth double-digit comeback win this season. Raptors are 4-5 when trailing by 10.

Raptors are 3 games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2021-22 season. 6 road wins. They didn't win 6 road games until March 2nd last season.

This night has been insane

37-year-old Steph Curry is the third-oldest player to record back-to-back 40-point games in NBA history, after Michael Jordan & LeBron James. He's the oldest to have back-to-back 45-point games since Jordan in 2001.

Giannis Antetokounmpo assisted on 14 of the Bucks' 20 threes tonight. His 18 assists led to FIFTY points.

Pistons have won 9 in a row for the first time since February 2008.

Landry Shamet's 36 points are the most off the bench by a Knick since JR Smith in 2013.

The Knicks bench has scored 60+ points in a game for the first time since Oct. 21, 2022. 1,485 days ago.

Landry Shamet has tied a career-high with 31 points. It's the most a player has scored off the bench for New York since Alec Burks on Dec. 29, 2021.

The Knicks bench has combined for 68 points (& counting!!) tonight, the most the Knicks have gotten from their bench since Nov. 10th, 2021.

The Brooklyn Nets have a lead at halftime for the first time this season.

Spoelstra just used his 12th challenge of the season, in game 13. He used 18 challenges all last season!!

Oso Ighodaro was +52 in 26 minutes last night. That's the third best plus/minus on record by someone who logged fewer than 30 minutes in a game

Immanuel Quickley is averaging 23.6 points on 74.3 TS% in his last 3 games Shooting 13-for-24 from three.

Raptors are 2 games over .500 for the first time since November 28, 2022 when they were 11-9 after a win against the Cavs. 1,081 days ago.

I asked Darko about playing Shead and Quickley together before the game. Here's what he said.

Some small sample size theatre but the Raptors have a +12.7 net rating & a 134.6 offensive rating in 94 minutes with Ingram, Barnes & Barrett on court together this month. -23.9 net , 101.3 offensive rating in their first 101 min together. -7.1 net rating in 195 minutes total.

The last 33 seconds of game time in Warriors/Spurs last night took 23 minutes of real time to play out.

Nikola Jokic has his fourth career 50-point game & he did it in just 3 quarters. Coming into tonight, Nuggets were 0-3 when Jokic scores 50 or more!!

SGA is second in the NBA with 32.5 points & he's only played in the fourth quarter SIX times this season. Including tonight, he's scored 30+ points through three quarters in six games.

Why did it take me 6 hours to realize Beal broke his hip? the oldest team in the NBA. they deserve all the unc jokes

OKC is leading by 20+ points for the 9th time this season. This is their 13th game of the season.

Last night vs OKC, the Warriors starters combined for 45 points. Tonight, Steph had 44 points on his own. The Warriors beat the Spurs for one of their best wins of the season, the day after one of their worst losses of the season.

Victor Wembanyama & Stephon Castle scored or assisted on 92 of the Spurs' 120 points tonight.

The Heat have blown a double-digit lead for the second time this season. 22 blown double-digit leads last season, tied for the most by a team since 1996-97.

Notable World Players by conference WEST Luka SGA Wembanyama Jokic Sengun Markkanen Murray EAST Giannis Giddey Siakam 12 players from each conference but 8 World players total??

So to sum up the All-Star Game selection process this season: 24 All-Stars 12 from each conference Positions don't matter 16 US players 8 World players 2 US teams 1 World team 8 players per team If there are not enough US or World players then Adam Silver will select more to fill out the teams.

Warriors' starters combined for 45 points tonight, third-fewest in a game by any starting lineup this season.

Not unrelated: they're shooting 39% from 3 (5th-best in the NBA), up from 35% (8th-worst) last season.

Per NBA tracking data, Raptors have been wide open (defender is 6+ feet away) for 64.2% of their three-point attempts this season. That's the second-largest rate in the NBA, behind only the Bulls. It's also up from 55.4% last season.

It’s pitch black in Toronto at 5:34 pm & it’s ruining my life

Nets are 1-0 when they hold opponents to under 115 points this season!!

It’s been 283 days since Luka Doncic was traded. In regular season games since: Lakers are 30-16 (6th), Mavs are 16-28 (24th) Doncic: 35 games, 23-12 record, 30.0 PTS, 8.3 REB, 7.9 AST Davis: 14 games, 8-6 record, 20.3 PTS, 10.1 REB, 3.6 AST Anthony Davis has only played 415 minutes as a Mav.

WHAT A SET FROM SPO WHAT A FINISH FROM WIGGINS WHAT A NIGHT OF BASKETBALL

The FIFTH game-winning buzzer-beater of the season! Tonight is the first night with multiple game-winning buzzer-beaters since March 17, 2024 per @Stathead

Victor Wembanyama has his SIXTH career game with 5+ threes & 5+ blocks, extending his record for most such games in NBA history.

Cade Cunningham has the SECOND 40-point triple-double in Pistons franchise history The first since Isiah Thomas in 1983!

Brandon Ingram has scored 210 points through his first 10 games with the Raptors, third-most in franchise history.

Raptors with 36 fast break points on the second night of a back-to-back. That's the most in a game by any team this season.

Russell Westbrook has scored 20+ points in 3 straight for the first time since January 2023.

18 points for the Warriors starters at halftime.

Nuggets were -10 in the first 2:15 without Jokic in the 2nd quarter... They were +16 in the next 5.5 minutes without him, with Murray, Johnson, Braun, JV & Watson on court.

Raptors were +6 in 17 minutes with their starters on court tonight. They've won their minutes together in back-to-back games after being a -23 in their first 4 games together.

Prepped for four games today, no one ask me how many words I've typed over the last 24 hours!

For @yahoosports.bsky.social: Wrote about Wemby & the Spurs’ offense struggling with some of the “exotic” looks they’ve gotten from defenses. On what’s happening, how they can counter, and why I’m not super concerned yet. sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...

Given that Toronto and Atlanta have never met in the playoffs ... is tonight the most important Hawks-Raptors game EVER????

The Raptors own the FIFTH-BEST halfcourt offensive rating in the NBA. They haven't ranked higher than 26th in halfcourt offence since the 2020-21 season (!!).