Shohei Ohtani has thrown the fastest pitch of any starting pitcher so far in this early season (100.6 MPH) and has the hardest-hit HR of the season by any player (115.2 MPH exit velocity).
Joel Embiid averaged 33.1 PPG in the regular season and 23.7 PPG in the playoffs.
That drop-off (-9.4) is the largest by that year's MVP in NBA history.
The Falcons had 39 points with zero turnovers in their loss against the Cowboys.
Entering today, teams were 440-0 when scoring 39 points with 0 turnovers since 1933, when team turnovers were first tracked, according to Elias.
DeMar DeRozan is the 7th player in NBA history with 8 straight 35-point games. He joins...
Wilt Chamberlain
Elgin Baylor
Michael Jordan
Kobe Bryant
LeBron James
James Harden
Caitlin Clark has 161 points and 52 assists in this NCAA Tournament.
Since 2000, it's one of six instances of a player having 150 points and 50 assists in ANY 5-game span.
All six of those belong to Caitlin Clark.
Russell Westbrook has:
- 20 triple-doubles in his last 30 games
- 18 triple-doubles in his last 25
- 16 triple-doubles in his last 20
- 13 triple-doubles in his last 15
- 9 triple-doubles in his last 10
Oscar Robertson never had any spans of this kind in his career.
LeGarrette Blount and Chris Long become the first players to win a Super Bowl with one team and then defeat that same team in the Super Bowl the following season.
As of now, the only players to ever sign for more than Middleton's $178M deal are Russell Westbrook (5 yrs/$206.8M) and Stephen Curry (5 yrs/$201.2M).
Middleton was the 39th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, making this the largest contract for a 2nd-round pick in NBA history.
Free agent Khris Middleton has agreed to a five-year, $178M deal to return to the Milwaukee Bucks, Excel Sports agent Mike Lindeman tells ESPN. Deal includes a player option.
Zion Williamson has 21 straight 20-point games, passing Luka Doncic and LeBron James for the most consecutive 20-point games before turning 21 in NBA history. h/t
@EliasSports
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!
59-year old Bobby Bonilla will collect a check for $1,193,248.20 from the New York Mets today, like he has and will every July 1 from 2011-2035.
Notre Dame QBs have now lost 24 straight starts in the NFL...
- 4 by Brady Quinn
- 4 by Jimmy Clausen
- 15 by DeShone Kizer
- 1 by Ian Book
That is the longest losing streak by starting QBs from a particular college since 1950 (h/t
@EliasSports
).
16 seeds were 0-135 all-time against 1 seeds...until tonight!
UMBC becomes the first 16 seed to ever beat a 1 seed.
It's the Retrievers' first-ever NCAA Tournament win.
Yordan Alvarez had 7 hits over the final 2 games of the ALCS.
The entire Red Sox team had 5.
He's the first human, ever, to out-hit the entire opposing team over the final 2 games of any series in MLB postseason history.
Luka Dončić will finish the season with 32.4 points per game. Joel Embiid can't finish worse than 32.6.
Embiid will become the first center to win back-to-back scoring titles since Bob McAdoo did it three straight seasons (1974-76).
LeBron James and Anthony Davis are the first Lakers teammates with 25 points and 10 rebounds in a playoff game since Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal did it in Game 7 of the 2002 West Finals vs the Kings.
Only 6 players in NBA history have 4 rings, multiple league MVPs, and a Finals MVP:
LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tim Duncan and, now, Steph Curry.
The Bucs are the 1st team with four 30-point games in a postseason.
They are the 1st team to beat 3 SB MVP QBs in a postseason (Mahomes, Rodgers, Brees)
Tom Brady is the 1st player in NFL history with 50 Pass TD in a season (including playoffs) for a Super Bowl champion.
Russell Westbrook will average a triple-double in a season for the 4th time in his career. Oscar Robertson is the only other player to do this & he did it once in 1961-62.
He could record 0 pts, rebs & 0 asts in every game the rest of the season & still average a triple-double.
The Kings trailed the Timberwolves by 17 points with 2:49 left in the 4th quarter.
Since 1996-97, the first year of play-by-play data, NBA teams entered the day 0-8,378 when trailing by 17 or more in the final 3 minutes of the 4th quarter or overtime.
The Kings won, 133-129.
Arkansas is the first team ever to beat an AP No. 1 during the regular season (Auburn on Feb. 8th) and the NCAA Tournament (Gonzaga tonight) in the same season.
Lamar Jackson is the first player in NFL history with 400 passing yards and 85% completion percentage in a game.
Jackson accounted for 499 of the Ravens' 523 yards of offense Monday night.
LSU wins its fourth national championship!
It becomes the 1st team in SEC history to finish 15-0.
It beat 7 AP top-10 teams, the most all-time, and its 726 points are the most in the AP poll era.
LeBron James joins Michael Jordan as the only players with at least 4 Finals MVP awards.
James is the 1st player to win the award with 3 different teams and 4th player to win Finals MVP at age 35 or older, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and Jordan
Luka Doncic and Michael Jordan are the only players in NBA postseason history to cap a 40-point performance with a buzzer beater while trailing.
Jordan did it in 1989 when he hit "The Shot" over Craig Ehlo.
Shohei Ohtani is the first player since RBI became official in 1920 to do all the following in a single game:
- 10 strikeouts as a pitcher
- 2 RBI as a batter
- a stolen base
LeBron James and Kevin Durant have played 13 games against each other in the playoffs. Their scoring in those games has been identical.
Head-to-Head in Playoffs
LeBron 424 points
Durant 424 points
22 running backs were taken in the 2015 NFL Draft.
After Todd Gurley was released by the Rams today, not a single one of them is still with the team that selected them.
Not because
#NBATwitter
wants it, but because
#NBATwitter
needs it.
LeBron James is 6-of-13 on go-ahead shots in the final 5 seconds of the 4th quarter / overtime in his playoff career.
He's now made one more than Michael Jordan.
The 2019-20 season will be Vince Carter's 22nd season, the most in NBA history passing Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Willis and Robert Parish.
If he plays in a game in 2020, he'll be the 1st player in NBA history to appear in a game in 4 different decades per
@EliasSports
The Celtics are now 22-1 when Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown both score 30 points, including the playoffs. That .957 win percentage is the best among duos all-time, minimum 20 games.
If Vince Carter plays tonight for the Hawks, he will become the first player in NBA history to play in four separate decades (1990's, 2000's, 2010's, 2020's).
The Boston Celtics are the first team in NBA history to win a Finals game by double digits after trailing by double digits entering the 4th quarter.
Their win probability fell as low as 4 percent when they were down 15 near the end of the 3rd quarter.
Tonight, the Warriors will look to be the first franchise to reach the NBA Finals 6 times in an 8-season span since the Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen Bulls from 1991-98.
Career playoff starts for the 8 QB starting next week:
Marcus Mariota 1
Tom Brady 34
Blake Bortles 1
Ben Roethlisberger 20
Matt Ryan 9
Nick Foles 1
Drew Brees 12
Case Keenum 0
Jrue Holiday is the first player over the last 25 postseasons to record a block and a steal inside the final 10 seconds of the 4th quarter of a playoff game.
Philadelphia joins New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles as the only cities with a team to win the World Series, Stanley Cup, Super Bowl and NBA title.
Jackson Holliday, son of 7-time All-Star OF Matt Holliday gets taken 1st-overall to the Orioles
The only other son of a former MLB player to be taken 1st-overall in the MLB Draft...Ken Griffey Jr. (1987)
J. Crossover.
Jamal Crawford (39 years, 20 days) has become the oldest player in NBA history to score 50 points in a game, surpassing Michael Jordan (38 years, 315 days) on Dec. 29, 2001.
He's also the first player ever with 50-point games for 4 different franchises.
The Astros' bullpen was one for the ages...
The Astros are the first bullpen to throw at least 40 innings in a single postseason and post a sub-1.00 ERA.
The United States has won gold in Women's Volleyball for the first time.
They are only the 3rd team to win the gold medal match 3-0, joining China in 1984 and Japan in 1976.
With Rudy Gobert off to Minnesota, the only player from the 2013 NBA Draft that is still on the team they made their debut with is Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Stephen Curry 3-pt FG Records:
* Most in a season (402 in 2015-16)
* Most in a game (13 on Nov. 7, 2016)
* T-Most in a single postseason (98 in 2015)
* Most 3-pt FG in a series (32 in 2016 Conf Finals & Finals)
* Most 3-pt FG in a Finals game (9 on Sunday)
Earlier today Thor Björnsson aka "The Mountain" from Game of Thrones, broke the deadlift world record, lifting 501 kg (1,105 lbs) from his home in Reykjavik, Iceland.
He won the World's Strongest Man competition in 2018 and has finished 3rd or better every year since 2012.
Russell Westbrook hit his 9th career 3-pt FG inside the final 5 seconds of the 4th quarter and OT.
That matches Kobe Bryant for the 2nd-most over the last 25 seasons. Only player with more during that span is Vince Carter (12).
Draymond Green joins LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird as the only players in postseason history with 200 steals and 10 triple-doubles
Donovan Mitchell has scored a total of 55 points in his first two playoff games, which is the most by a guard in NBA history.
The previous record holder is someone you may have heard of
According to
@EliasSports
LeBron James improves to 38-10 (.792 win pct) all-time in closeout games.
That is the best record by a player in NBA postseason history (min. 25 games).
James is the first player to reach the Finals with five different head coaches in NBA history.
Patrick Mahomes threw 5 Pass TD in a span of 10:30 of game time. It's easily the fastest span in NFL postseason history.
The next fastest? Tom Brady did it in just under 25 minutes in 2011.
h/t
@EliasSports
Albert Pujols hit a pinch-hit grand slam and Adam Wainwright pitched 7 scoreless innings today.
The Cardinals are the 1st team in MLB history to have a 40-year-old hit a grand slam and another 40-year-old throw at least 7 shutout IP in the same game, according to
@EliasSports
.
Deshaun Watson is the only starting QB in the last 15 postseasons with a 14-point comeback win in college and the pros.
He led a 14-point comeback win vs Alabama in the 2017 CFP Nat’l Championship game, and a 16-point comeback win today.
Justin Jefferson joins Randy Moss as the only rookies in Vikings history with a 100-yard receiving game on Monday Night Football.
Jefferson's 4 100-yard receiving games this season are tied with Moss for the most by a rookie in Vikings history.
Tee Higgins and Ja'Marr Chase have both recorded more than 1,000 receiving yards this season.
The
@Bengals
are the 1st team in NFL history with multiple players with 1,000 receiving yards before turning 23.
Though he was eliminated in the 1st Round by Juan Soto, Shohei Ohtani hit six 500-foot home runs, the most in a single Home Run Derby since Statcast began tracking in 2016.
The Ravens ran the ball 48 times Monday night.
They failed to gain yardage on only 3 of those runs: Robert Griffin III's 3 kneel downs to end the game.
Chris Paul is on the verge of becoming the first player to lose four best-of-7 series in which his team led 2-0. The only other player with three best-of-7 series losses in which his team led 2-0 is former teammate Blake Griffin.
Duke is shooting 30.2% from the 3-point line this season, which ranks last among major-conference teams and 339th in Division I.
No team with a 3-point percentage that low has ever reached the Final Four.
Tyson Fury makes history:
He is now the 1st fighter to end TWO reigns of 10+ title defenses:
2015: Fury defeats Wladimir Klitschko, who was attempting a 19th title defense
2020: Fury defeats Deontay Wilder, who was attempting an 11th title defense
This was Wilder's 1st loss