Victor Wembanyama's 2026 playoffs so far (excluding games he exited early): 7 GP, 25.0 PPG, 13.3 RPG, 2.9 APG, 5.3 BPG, 55.0 FG%, 37.8 3PT%, 86.7 FT%, +109 in 33.7 MPG
Not including Game 4 of this series (TKO) and Game 2 of last series (concussed)
Thoughts? Seems alright to me
Imagine the CDL in its current form, but instead of the rosters we see now, we have historic rosters from other CoD titles all competing in the current game. Imagine every single player/team mentioned would be as good now as they were back in their own respective game.
Every team selected is from a different title and a different organization, which is surprisingly hard to do considering how many players migrate from one great team to another, and I wasn't able to get all the orgs or a few specific players that I wanted to, but I think I got a good mix.
Without further ado, the rosters (in order of least recent to most recent):
BO2 Optic - Scump, Nadeshot, JKap, BigTymer
Ghosts Envy - Merk, Nameless, Study, Rambo
AW Faze - Clayster, Attach, Zoomaa, Enable
BO3 Splyce - Bance, Josh, Joee, Rated
IW Rise Nation - Loony, Aqua, Faccento, Felo
WW2 Evil Geniuses - Aches, Apathy, Assault, Silly
BO4 EUnited - Arcitys, Prestinni, Simp, Abezy
MW19 Mutineers - Havok, Skyz, Frosty, Owakening
CW Empire - Crimsix, Shotzzy, Illey, Huke
VG Thieves - Octane, Kenny, Envoy, Drazah
MW2 Ultra - Insight, Scrap, CleanX, Hicksy
BO6 Surge - Abuzah, Nastie, 04, Neptune
Obviously, I couldn't find the right teams to fit all the players that I wanted to into a 12 team league, but if we throw all these teams into the current CDL in BO7, assuming all of them are as good as they were in their respective games, how do you guys see the season playing out? Who wins an event, or multiple? Who wins champs? Who's the best player/best team? I figured this would be an interesting thought experiment especially for the older competitive fans.
If there's anyone in the league that currently has any remote possibility of breaking one of LeBron's seemingly unbreakable records, the minutes played record, it's probably Iron Man Mikal Bridges. He's been a starter for 8 years now, has not missed a game, and has led the NBA in total minutes since he entered the league at 21,206, averaging 33.2 MPG for his career and leading the league in total minutes three of the last five years.
In order to reach LeBron's current mark of 61,030, Bridges would have to continue to not miss a game, and average 33.2 MPG for another 15 years. Basically he'd have to play 23 years as a full time starter until he's 44 years old and never miss a single game, just to get to where LeBron is right now... and LeBron is still going.
Maybe this is common knowledge by now, but I just recently noticed that there are now 143 games on basketball reference that have Wilt's block totals recorded. Most of them are from his Laker days, closer to 1973 when blocks officially started getting recorded, but we can at least pull back the curtain a little bit on some of these absurd Wilt stats us newborns hear about.
Tallying up all 143 games, Wilt recorded 1,098 blocks, which averages out to about 7.7 blocks per game, and remember, this is mostly Wilt in the back half of his career. If he held this average for all 1,045 career games, he would surpass 8,000 career blocks, more than double Hakeem Olajuwon, the current all time leader.
The 23 block game was actually recorded during his first season in LA, the 1968-69 season, which means his actual career high is probably quite a bit higher. And this average mostly holds for the playoffs as well. Through 71 recorded playoff games, Wilt totaled 513 blocks, a 7.2 per game average.
August 13, 2023 was the day Sinner won his first Masters tournament in Canada, and thus his first big title
He is now only two short of having all of them. All he needs is Rome and Roland Garros. He's already won every other Masters, every other Slam, the ATP Finals and the Davis Cup which I don't think even counts as a big title but whatever, he's got it
It all hinges on if he decides to play Rome or skip it to preserve his body after playing so much the last couple months, but there's no one to really contest him at either event. June 7th 2026 will be the Men's Singles Final at the French, so if Sinner plays and wins both Rome and RG, he will have won every single big title in tennis minus the Olympics within 1,029 days
That's quite the fun fact for any stat nerds out there, but yeah, Rui Hachimura through 37 career playoff games is at 65/128, or 50.7% from 3, and his 5/7 shooting night in game 6 launched him past Bob Hansen for the highest career 3 point percentage in playoff history (min. 25 games)
This was why I thought the Knicks hiring Mike Brown was a great choice before the season started. I thought their offense at times was too one dimensional under Thibs, and they got too much in the habit of spamming Brunson isos. Games 1-3 against Atlanta, Mike Brown was falling into the same trap. However, in Games 4-6, their offense exploded from 109 PPG before to 127 PPG after, and the way KAT was used in the offense I think was the biggest reason why.
This is where Brown's time in Golden State really sticks out. In a similar way that the Warriors use Draymond Green to handle the ball and grab assists off of DHOs or their patented post splits, or how Denver uses Jokic to operate from the elbow and find cutters, the Knicks did the same thing with KAT particularly in game 6. KAT would operate on the perimeter with the ball and run DHOs with Brunson or Anunoby, with the other two perimeter guys running post splits either flaring out for open 3s or cutting to the rim where there'd be no big man in the paint to contest, since he's out on the perimeter guarding KAT.
Imagine someone telling you after Games 1-3 that in the next 3 games of the series, KAT would have more assists than field goal attempts. 21 total shot attempts to 26 assists. You'd think he should be put in a mental institution. But this is the biggest way the center position has changed nowadays and it's part of why the most successful offenses are indeed so successful.
The Hawks were up 9-5, and then they were down 22-72...
That doesn't even sound real. There will be so many stats and facts from this game that just seem outright cartoonish. Sad day for ATL man.