“We all know whose 50-point show was more impactful” Skip Bayless chooses Kevin Durant’s performance against the Knicks over LeBron James’ performance vs Wizards

“We all know whose 50-point show was more impactful” Skip Bayless chooses Kevin Durant’s performance against the Knicks over LeBron James’ performance vs Wizards

Skip Bayless on LeBron James and Kevin Durant

LeBron James and Kevin Durant, two of the best players in the NBA today, have both recorded 50-point games in the course of the most recent couple of days. James did it against the Washington Wizards and Durant against the New York Knicks, with their rivals eleventh and twelfth in the East, individually.

Both the LA Lakers (29-38) and the Brooklyn Nets (35-33) are confronting daunting struggles, in spite of being stacked with whizzes collected to come out on top for a championship. The Lakers played .500 ball through early January prior to going 8-19. The Nets drove the East for a large part of the period however had a 3-17 faint started by Durant’s knee injury toward the beginning of January.

Their present standings request such exhibitions, and both the legends of the game moved forward and conveyed.

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Skip Bayless picks Kevin Durant over LeBron James

Skip Bayless on LeBron James
Skip Bayless on LeBron James

On “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed,” Shannon Sharpe picked LeBron James’ 50-point game over Kevin Durant’s. He supported his contention with numbers from the game. However, James’ hardest pundit, Skip Bayless, made light of James’ endeavours:

“LeBron was playing the Wizards. It’s the Wizards without Bradley Beal. The records are about the same, between the Knicks (28-40) and the Wizards (29-37) right now.”

Bayless then illuminated the Knicks’ new play:

“They’ve had a hot streak. Because they came to the Clippers, at the Clippers, they won by 23, then they went up to Sacramento – won by 16. That’s no easy chore. And then they go to Dallas and win by 30.”

As far as insights, James scored 50 points while shooting 72%, including 66.7% from past the curve. Durant piled up 53 points, shooting 51.4%, going 30.8% from past the circular segment. James even had a superior free-toss shooting rate, however, Durant endeavoured and changed over a couple of something else.

While the Lakers’ won by an agreeable 13-point edge (122-109 on Friday), the Nets beat the Knicks 110-107 Sunday – with Durant scoring the last seven points in a nail-gnawing finish. Despite the fact that James’ 19-point second from last quarter was what the future held pad, Bayless promoted his contention by saying:

“Closer versus noncloser. (James) didn’t need to close, I tweeted ‘Even LeBron can close this one,’ because it wasn’t close. You have to be a closer when it’s close.”

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