There's nothing like seeing an NBA player have everything click on a single night. Whether he's finding the bottom of the net whenever his wrist flicks, magically ending up in the right place for every rebound, finding passing angles no one else can see, rejecting shots left and right or committing thievery so often he should be arrested, a player in that type of zone is always worth watching.
Those types of performances are rare enough for the league's best and brightest. But for the morass of mid-level contributors and the myriad benchwarmers below them in the NBA hierarchy? They're nigh impossible.
Except when they're not.
Those are the showings we're interested in here—the ones where the non-household names seemingly defy logic and demand our attention with dominance that's as extreme as it is unexpected. By looking at the top 1,000 outings* (and ties) in each of the five major box-score categories and comparing them to the season averages of the players who recorded them, we can see which outbursts rank as the biggest outliers.
We want to find the players who seem allergic to blocking shots before channeling th ...
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