One of the greatest moments in NBA history, in my opinion, was when Jordan McRae dropped 36 for the Cavaliers in the final game of the 2015-16 season. There’s been a lot of cool stuff that has happened in the NBA, as you would expect from a league that’s been around for so many years, but I’d only put a few things above McRae’s monster game:
-Carmelo Anthony laying on the court and pretending to be dead while play goes on around him
-Wilt’s 100-point game, duh
-J.R. Smith chicken dance
-When the 76ers dropped the confetti too early
-Larry Bird hit a cool shot once, I remember that being pretty cool
And that’s it. You might have your own lists of cool stuff that happened in the NBA, but be sure to include McRae scoring 36 in there somewhere. If you have it below Malice at the Palace, that’s cool. But if you have it above Michael Jordan’s shot over Craig Ehlo, that’s not cool.
McRae scoring 21 isn’t quite at the same level as him scoring 36, but it’s still pretty cool. The advantage this performance has over that one is that the video for this one is still accessible to the general public, whereas my video for the 36-burger got deleted and I haven’t gotten around to reuploading it (or anything else) on my archival channel. I swear I’ll get around to it one day.