Interesting fact
Tristan Thompson only has 2 assists in 312 minutes...
http://www.nba.com/playerfile/tristan_t_thompson/career_stats.html
Only three players have ever led the NBA in scoring and won the championship in the same season:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 1970-71
Michael Jordan: 1991-93, 1996-98
Shaquille O'Neal: 1999-00
This is why people think Michael Jordan is the greatest player of All-Time. His combination of consistent individual excellence and team accomplishment is absolutely unparalleled. Wilt Chamberlain won his first championship the first year he DID NOT win the scoring title (1966-67). He was also on a team that saw 6 players average over 12 ppg in the regular season and 6 average over 11 ppg in the Play-offs.
Wilt's play-off averages through 15 games that year? 21.7 ppg, 29.1 rpg and 9 apg. RIDICULOUS. He also averaged 24.1 ppg and 24.2 rpg, while taking 11 less shots per game on average than his previous year. His shooting percentage went from a solid 54% to an obscene 68.3%. Truly remarkable, but it nonetheless shows how important team effort was in his 2 titles in 1967 and 1971-72 with a Laker team that used him as a 4th scoring option (After Gail Goodrich, Jerry West and Jim McMillan).
If you go even further into it, Mike and Shaq were the only two to lead the regular season and play-offs in scoring in the same season they won a title. Kareem was actually outscored in the 1971 play-offs by Bob "Butterbean" Love of Chicago Bulls fame (26.7 to 26.6, but still has Love as the leader). Hakeem Olajuwon led the play-offs in scoring for both of his title wins, but lost the regular season scoring title both years to David Robinson in 1994 and Shaq in 1995. Kobe Bryant has never led the Play-offs in PPG the same year he has won a title. This takes very little away from Kobe, but I found it kind of fascinating that Michael Jordan won both regular season and play-off scoring titles for each of his championships.
The Bulls are the first team in history to beat three straight road teams by at least 20 points.
Even if the teams were the Bucks, Nets and Hornets.
They should extend it to four with the Bobcats on deck.
Also, the Sixers better keep racking up the wins because 10 of their last 14 are on the road, including their last 5.
Also, also, Derrick Favors has 7 assists this year in 471 minutes.
Sorry about the complete randomness of this.