When you look at box scores at the end of a day, you see some eye-popping individual stats - Damn, is Wiggins taking 4-pointers? - paired with a lot of team losses. McCollum’s 33-point Brooklyn brunch, and another 30-plus night (and another loss) for Russell Westbrook - but Rudy Gay threw DeMar DeRozan’s shoe into the Golden 1 Center stands, so he gets to be King of the Court, if just for one day. There were more gaudy stat lines on Sunday night - 40 points for Jimmy Butler, C.J. We’ll be keeping track of the best player of every night of the NBA season, and tallying the results as we go along. Welcome to King of the Court, our daily celebration of the best players in basketball from the night that was.
