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Good morning. The scoring explosion is real. Not long after Klay Thompson went berserk for 52 and Kyrie Irving trumped him with 55, Stephen Curry got in the action by dropping 51 on the Mavericks on Wednesday. Even Steve Kerr was impressed. The Warriors trailed by 22 at one point, but won waltzing away. Let it be known that if your defense is weak Golden State will devour it slowly and completely, and pick its teeth with your bones.
Russell Westbrook had a huge scoring night too, racking up 45 in a huge Thunder win over the Pelicans. Kevin Durant didn't even make the trip to rest his toe. OKC is now a game behind New Orleans for No. 9 and 2.5 out of No. 8.
We had 11 games on Wednesday, so let's get to it and basketball.
FIRE EMOJI: GMIB is not emoji-friendly, unfortunately, or we'd tag this Mike Scott banger on Bradley Beal with several angry faces. Atlanta won. NEW STREAK! (Speaking of the Hawks, earlier in the day the league announced that the East Conference Player of the Week was ... all five Atlanta starters. WHAT ABOUT MIKE SCOTT, HUH? Adam Silver's out there breaking apart the Player of the Week tiara like Cady Heron at the Spring Fling.)
JAMES HARDEN'S GOT MOVES: Watch him freeze Jimmy Butler in place. The Rockets beat the Bulls.
RICKY IS SO BACK: A smiling no-look to a streaking Anthony Bennett. God bless Ricky Rubio. Hassan Whiteside had 24 and 20 in that game, but Miami lost because Whiteside will do anything his point guard tells him to do and Norris Cole told him to go out of bounds and inbound the ball after it had already been inbounded. Whoops!
PLAY OF THE NIGHT: Yes, Wolves-Heat was highlight-riddled. None were better than Thad Young's accidental flying DDT on Whiteside.
OTHER SCORES: Check out our NBA Scores hub, but quickly -- Indiana beat Detroit, the Nets surprised the Raptors, the C's beat the flailing Nuggets, the Bucks needed OT to beat the Lakers, the Spurs took care of the Magic and the Grizzlies handled the Jazz.
BYRON SCOTT WENT THERE: Bucks-Lakers was the first opportunity for Byron Scott to coach against his old point guard Jason Kidd, who got him fired a decade ago. Scott was forthright with the media, saying that back then Kidd "was kind of known as an a--hole." Dang, man.
THE ID OF THE KINGS: The Kings' starting five has performed better than all but three other five-man units in the entire league this season. So why is Sacramento so mediocre overall?
THE FUTURISTIC GOON: On Jusuf Nurkic, goon of tomorrow.
IT'S TIME: The Nuggets drafted a guy named Joffrey two years ago. He might be coming over now. Yes.
THE SHARKS OF DALLAS: Every Maverick is Right Shark or Left Shark. Except Monta, who is both sharks because Monta Have It All.
BALLER IN CHIEF: WSJ published an excerpt from Reggie Love's book on working for and hooping with President Obama. There are some great lines in the excerpt, including a CP3 vs. Tony Parker debate and some Presidential trash talk.
Happy Thursday. See you next time.
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