Through yesterday’s 10-game slate, the new and improved NBA this season has offered us 377 “Basketball Battles” – as long-time Celtics’ voice Johnny Most used to dub them – 754 team performances, so far.
Only 10 times this season has a squad posted 140 points or more – a measly 1.4 percent of the time.
I say “measly” in part because it’s a cool old word that doesn’t get used enough nowadays …
… but also because exactly 58 years ago today, in one NBA game, a measly two players combined for a whopping 141 points.