30 Teams: 30 Records

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There's something unique in every NBA team... something they can call their own. Every team has a "one" and an "only", a "high" and a "lowly", a "most" and a... OK... OK... you got it...

There must be thousands of NBA records out there... but I'll only mention ONE for every team right here.

So here we go...


ATLANTA HAWKS
The ONE: Jamal Crawford and his ONE hour game. He had a playing time of 60 minutes. The most minutes in a game by any player last season. How was this possible? That game had 3 overtimes!

BOSTON CELTICS
The MOST: Number of championships: 17. The MOST in history. Lakers are catching up though... they're 2 championships behind.

CHARLOTTE BOBCATS
The ONLY: Larry Brown is the ONLY person to win as a coach in the college level and as a coach in the NBA level. But he'll always be remembered as the coach who couldn't win a gold medal in the olympics with a team full of NBA players!

CHICAGO BULLS
The MOST: Number of wins in a season: 72. The MOST in NBA history. Should have been 73 if you ask me... but they had that one unlucky game against Toronto that year (1996).

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
The Chosen ONE: LeBron James won the MVP trophy last year. When you have that trophy, that means you're number ONE until someone takes it away...

DALLAS MAVERICKS
THE ONE: Jason Terry won the Sixth Man of the Year award... which is the NBA's way of saying "You're not good enough to start a game but hey... at least you're number ONE among the best of the rest."

DETROIT PISTONS
The MOST: Points in a game: 186. The MOST in NBA history. It happened in a game that went to 3 overtimes back in 1983... you know... when players did not know how to play defense.

DENVER NUGGETS
The ONLY: Maybyner Hilario is the ONLY player to have his nickname (Nené) appear at the back of his jersey. See photo.

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GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
The MOST: Dunks allowed: 418. The MOST (or worst?) of last season. The Warriors allowed teams to dunk on them 418 times?! That's a lot of NBA posters.

HOUSTON ROCKETS
The BEST: Starting a season with 15 straight wins? The BEST so far in NBA history... The Rockets achieved this in 1993, after Michael Jordan's first retirement. If Jordan didn't retire, who would be holding this NBA record right now: the Bulls? Or the Rockets? We'll never know...

INDIANA PACERS
The MOST: The "MOST Improved Player Award" went to Danny Granger . He deserves it... He attempted 7 game winning shots last year... and 5 went in! Jerry Maguire wants to show him the money!

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS
The WORST: Losing the first 17 games of a season? Possible! The Clippers did before and it's the WORST so far in NBA history... but the Clippers are happy because the New Jersey Nets have lost 16 in a row to start this year! The Clippers actually have a chance to pass this record on to the NETS...

LOS ANGELES LAKERS
The MOST: Kobe Bryant had 61 points in a game. The MOST by any player last year. Who was guarding him?

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES
The FEWEST: Playoffs appearances: 3. That's the FEWEST by any franchise that tried being in the playoffs. (Oklahoma Thunder have been to the playoffs... when they were known as the Seattle Sonics.)

MIAMI HEAT
The FEWEST: Shots made in a game: 17. In March of 2008, the HEAT as a team only made 17 shots... the FEWEST ever! Any high school team can make 17 shots...

MILWAUKEE BUCKS
The ONE: The youngest ONE to score 50 or more points in a game is Brandon Jennings. 20 years and 7 weeks old.. He scored 55 points. What makes this even more impressive is that he had zero points in the first quarter and was just playing the 7th game of his career...

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES
The MOST: The MOST points allowed to a single player in 1 quarter: 33. The Timberwolves allowed Carmelo Anthony to score 33 points on them in the 3rd quarter of a game last year. How can you let someone score 33 points in 12 minutes?! Seriously.

NEW JERSEY NETS
The MOST: The Nets hold the NBA record for MOST points scored in an overtime period: 25. In other words, they scored 25 points in 5 minutes. How did this happen? Simple. They were playing the Clippers... in the 90's...

NEW ORLEANS HORNETS
The ONLY: Chris Paul is the ONLY player who holds the "most consecutive games with a steal" title. He made at least 1 steal, 106 games in a row!

NEW YORK KNICKS
The MOST: Chris Duhon made the MOST assists in a game last season: 22. That's hard to do... considering that the team mates he passes the ball to are not superstars...

OKLAHOMA THUNDER
The NEWEST: The NBA records they hold are under the name Sonics... so right now... all I can say is that they're the NEWEST team. Welcome to the NBA...

ORLANDO MAGIC
The ONE part 1: Dwight Howard had 1,093 rebounds, good for number ONE last season.
The ONE part 2: Dwight Howard had 202 dunks, good for number ONE last season. The ONE part 3: Dwight Howard had 231 blocks, good for number ONE last season. Can you imagine what it's like to guard Dwight Howard?

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS
The MOST: The 100 points scored by Wilt Chamberlain in 1962 was the MOST in history and it's worth knowing... because it will never be beaten.

PHOENIX SUNS
The MOST: Points scored before halftime: 107. The Suns once scored 107 points in the first 24 minutes of a game. The MOST in NBA history. 107 points? That's the scoring average per game of an elite NBA team.

PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS
The MOST: Brandon Roy made 10 steals in one game. That was the MOST in a game last season. The NBA record is 11.

SACRAMENTO KINGS
The LAST: The Kings had the worst record last year. Only 17 wins... that puts them dead LAST in the league. No where to go but up I guess...

SAN ANTONIO SPURS
The FEWEST: This team made 73 dunks. The FEWEST among NBA teams last year. To put that into perspective, the Denver Nuggets made 520 dunks last season... If someone asks you "What's the most boring team in the NBA?" Just say "Spurs!".

TORONTO RAPTORS
The ONE: The Raptors have made at least ONE 3-pointer a game since February of 1999. That NBA record is still going on... Yeah, it's been 10 years...

UTAH JAZZ
The ONLY: Jerry Sloan is the ONLY person to coach the same team for 22 years. This has to be a World record... aside from being an NBA record!

WASHINGTON WIZARDS
The MOST: Gilbert Arenas once scored 16 points in an overtime period. The MOST in NBA history. But with the way the game is being played today, someone might actually beat this record.