The Pistons have an entire English alphabet's worth of consecutive Ls

L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

Yard with Lunatics; Francisco Goya; 1793-94

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Scores

Friday

Raptors 111, Sixers 121 — Toronto was supposed to have one of the best defenses in the league with O.G. Anunoby, Pascal Siakam and Scottie Barnes featured heavily as Jakob Poeltl in the middle. On Friday, each of Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Tobias Harris scored 30+ points on better than 50% shooting from the floor.

(Philadelphia is currently No. 2 in offense and No. 3 in defense, by the way.)

Nuggets 122, Nets 117 — Denver is now 12-4 when Jamal Murray plays (8-6 without). Currently approaching a top-10 defense status, too.

Nikola Jokic spent his day off before the game to visit Yonkers Raceway and watch some harness racing. Of course!

Mavericks 96, Rockets 122 — No Luka, Kyrie, Lively, Exum. No chance. Dallas loses its fourth straight to slip out of the West top 6.

Hawks 113, Heat 122 — Another big scoring night for Tyler Herro. Atlanta is losing to the Heat without Jimmy Butler. Bad sign.

Suns 105, Kings 120 — Dominant win for Sacramento. You guard Domantas Sabonis with Drew Eubanks and you’re going to have problems. 28-11-12 for Domas.

Malik Monk with another beautiful dunk. He gets the aesthetics of dunking in a way few modern players do.

I yelped when this happened, and my wife (who was not watching) said “don’t you ever get tired of seeing dunks?” and I showed her the dunk and she yelped.