🏀 40-Burgers Across the Association

What to know: We had a beefy 10-game slate on last night and some guys decided to put the Superman cape on! Let’s take a quick look at some of the 40-burgers from across last night’s action!

DeMar DeRozan (Kings def. Mavs in OT, 129-128): Doesn’t it feel like DeMar has just been doing his thing for two decades now? Well not quite but he’s close, drafted in 2009, DeMar has been a midrange killer while the league around has evolved, and his effectiveness has never gone down. Last night he had a game-high 42 points in an overtime win against the Mavs, and he hit the game-winning shot splitting defenders with less than a second remaining.

The Kings now find themselves with the 9-seed in the West, and despite losing De’Aaron Fox, the acquisitions of Zach Lavine and Jonas Valanciunas really good give them a fighting chance to make a push in the back half of the season and STUMPSET a playoff series! This being said, DeMar will be their ANCHOR in the back half of the season. The guy still has it!

Nikola Jokic (Nuggets def. Trail Blazers, 146-117): There’s not much more that can be said about the Joker. He is an absolute juggernaut on the court. The Nuggets seem to hitting their stride right now. They won their 7th straight yesterday behind 40 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, and 3 steals from the big man. On the West right now all you will hear is Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, and now Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, but maybe that’s exactly where Denver wants it. While they have the Joker, anything is possible. Check out this NUTS shot he hit form the corner over some short guy named Ayton!

Anthony Edwards (T’Wolves fall to the Cavs, 107-128): The only loss out of the three, but a 40-burger is a 40-burger. ANT-MAN finished 44 points and 7 made threes. He is officially on a heater as this is THIRD STRAIGHT 40-point game! They lost to a very good Cavs team in Cleveland, but the skeptics still haven’t piped down from their franchise changing trade when they shipped KAT to the Knicks for Randle and DiVincenzo. Both who are sidelined for a few more weeks with injuries. Hindsight is 20/20, and maybe that wasn’t the right move, but the Timberwolves find themselves as the 6-seed in the West right now. If they get matched against a young team like Houston or Memphis in the first round, it would a helluva series for sure!

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