Tuesday’s shortened slate of action marked the 56th “playing date” (out of 168, in all) of this season’s attempt to return to NBA normalcy. The closure to the first eight weeks of action saw both historic achievement as well as the first postponement of the Association’s bally-hooed 76th season.
Steph Curry’s record-setting accomplishment at MSG underscores the league’s continuing and still-growing infatuation with the three-point shot … the league-wide usage rate through 415 games is .402 (up from last season’s all-time high of .392) and no fewer than 17 teams now are taking more than two out of every five shots from beyond the arc.