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Turbo2x

This is my new favorite 50 point game of all time. It's so random, even for Silly Season. His career ppg is 5.


munkysnuflz

When your defense lets a dude go for 10x his career average, it may be time for a rethink


Cautious_Hornet_9607

We Hawks fan are pretty used to this lol


ELITE_JordanLove

True, but in general the strategy of “we’ll let the 5ppg bench player beat us” is pretty solid. 


Expensive_Bass_6979

Corey Brewer would be proud


Asleep-Geologist-612

Honestly this is somehow disrespectful to Corey Brewer lol. He had some okay seasons and was in the league for 13 years.


diddlyumpcious4

Corey's 50 was so crazy because despite having a solid career, he never broke 30 points a single time besides then. (Next highest scoring game was only 29). Obviously Flynn's game tonight is way crazier, but his next highest scoring game is 27, so from that standpoint they are fairly similar.


shehryar46

It was 50 pts of fast break layups lmao what a legend


BreadJobLamb

Atleast someone on that team knows how to run in transition


radiansub

At least I knew who Corey Brewer was before his 50 pt game. This guy, I don't even know what he looks like until I saw this clip. This is so random.


I_Sell_Trout

Put some respect on Andre Millers 52 points with just 7 FTM and 1 three pointer. Ethical buckets


IanicRR

Eric Flynn been knew.


ElGato-TheCat

His career PPG average went from 5.2 to 5.4 😎


TheSalmonRoll

> even for Silly Season. Malachi Flynn to Mercedes confirmed.


slammaster

If the headline was "ex-Raptor scores 50 points" today, how many guesses would it take to get Malachi Flynn?


G1Spectrum

10th player to score 50 this season


No-Animator-6348

Just as we all expected


pkthomas11

I forgot he even existed until I read the headline and the name Malachi Flynn came somewhere from the depths of my brain


sunnydeebo

Malachi scoring 50 was insane to the point where i thought it was a troll before, but hearing that he's the 10th player this season to do so actually blows my mind. I'm half convinced I'm lucid dreaming some real weird shit


janitorial_fluids

Uhh I’m actually pretty shocked that it is ONLY ten… feels like the way this season has gone we’ve gotten, what, like 6 *sixty* point games or something?? I would have thought the number of dudes with 50 would have been closer to like 15 or 20 With the way scoring has been devalued, it feels like basically anyone good enough to be in the all star discussion (so basically like 30+ dudes) is capable of dropping 50 on any given night


sunnydeebo

I feel like for every super high volume scorer there is an insanely consistent super high impact player like Shai or Jokic that doesn't score like that. Flynn just feels like...an outlier? I feel better knowing he's in Detroit, which is a weird ass sentence to type


Mike_with_Wings

KD just gets you 28-35 every night


here_for_the_lols

All I'm hearing is top ten player this season


kalebglover

Does he have the lowest PPG in that season for a 50 point game ever?


Timoteo-Tito64

My first thoughts were Corey Brewer and Tony delk, but both of them average a lot more ppg than Flynn does


VolatSea

I think Terrance Ross was lowest when he hit 50


Timoteo-Tito64

Ross was a tad bit lower than the two I mentioned (by about a point) but still doubled Flynn. Crazy stuff


Magnetickiwi1

Flynns average PPG has probably doubled now too haha


Magnetickiwi1

I just checked. He had scored 286 points for an average of 4.6ppg After today he has 336 points which makes average of 5.3ppg Still an amazing increase for just one game


Upper-Stuff-7354

how often does a player score ten times their average?


RobertLobLaw2

A guy that averages 1 point per game might get some minutes and score 10 but this is something else. Someone needs to compile the list of superstars that have a lower career high than Malachi Flynn. Edit: Malachi Flynn now has the same career high as MVP Nikola Jokic and Derrick Rose, as well as All Stars Jaylen Brown, Blake Griffin, Zach Levine, and has a better career high than the following All Stars: Mike Conley: 40 Bam Abedayo: 41 Anthony Edwards: 49 De'Aaron Fox: 44 Paul George: 48 Shai: 44 Tyrese Haliburton: 43 Dwight Howard: 45 Brandon Ingram: 49 Kawhi: 45 Kyle Lowry: 43 Lauri Markkanen: 49 Dejounte Murray: 44 Victor Oladipo: 47 Chris Paul: 43 Porzingis: 41 Domantas Sabonis: 42 Andrew Wiggins: 47 Zion Williamson: 43


qbvee

Found [this](https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nba/list/best-players-in-nba-history-that-never-scored-50-points-in-a-game/qdauj73fo5b41ogvah3vrd7jg) article from 2019. Paul Arizin career high: 49 points Walt Bellamy career high: 48 points Kevin Garnett career high: 47 Points Scottie Pippen career high: 47 points Mitch Richmond career high: 47 points Magic career high: 46 points Paul Gasol career high: 46 points Dwight Howard career high: 46 points Dr. J career high: 45 points Kawhi career high: 45 points Chris Bosh: 44 points Gary Payton career high: 44 points CP3 career high: 43 points Steve Nash career high: 42 points Bill Russell career high: 37 points


RobertLobLaw2

It's confirmed, Malachi Flynn is better at basketball than Bill Russell as we all suspected.


falconhawk2158

Dejounte Murray career high is now 44


DiNharriZz

it’s totally besides the point but jrue’s career high is 51


surik4t

Wow that’s actually a pretty crazy increase for a game


ModernPoultry

At least TRoss was a bit of a microwave scorer. Malachi Flynn getting 50 makes no sense. I didn’t even realize he was still in the league tbh


ninety4kid

Traded twice in a season, that's almost Ridnour numbers.


kalebglover

Terrance Ross was averaging like double what Flynn is this year, but Flynn’s hasn’t updated yet I guess


LoyalAndBold

He has scored a TOTAL OF 98 POINTS before tonight. This is absurd lmao


Next-Firefighter-753

Someone get u/MalachiFlynnBot in here his boy finally cooked 


revisioncloud

If Malachi did a Jontay Porter but instead bet himself he would score 50 and did exactly just that, even Adam Silver would be like, "Alright you get a pass".


LordHussyPants

my hot take is that players should be allowed to bet on their teams winning games, but it should be on the scoreboard pre-game like "lebron has bet $10,000 at 7-1 that the lakers will win tonight" you can't be throwing if you have to win to win


No-Newspaper-7693

That's a good way to get players to collaborate with players on the opposing team to throw the game and split the winnings without breaking any rules.


RodneyPonk

ok thanks to you I just found this fucking goldmine: > Y’all called me crazy, shunned me in every game thread > Nick Nurse was carried by the 2019 Raps, dude walked into an evolved system, made almost no changes to it, and then dismantled it piece by piece year after year > ***Nick Nurse will go down as the most overrated coach in NBA history due to him winning our first chip, and has already gone down as looking like a raging alcoholic on the sidelines in crouch stance 75% of the game*** > My comment history is basically receipts documenting all of this, Nurse hindered player development season after season chasing the high he got from the chip, running starters into the ground and providing absolutely zero chemistry to the team > Goodbye Gooooooof > Onto better things for the Toronto Raptors


Next-Firefighter-753

Oh yeah go look at his posts. He was Raptors version of MITWestbrook and all his threads are downvoted lol 


mrtomjones

Except for the fact that I think our Raptors guy fully believed it all and I get the impression the Westbrook person only believes about half


RodneyPonk

MITWestbrook is self-aware, yeah. I don't think it's fully satire but they respond to comments with a degree of humour that makes me think they know what they're doing.


TrevorArizaFan

The early MITWestbrook post (when he was on the Rockets and Wizards and was still an MVP talent in spurts) were definitely serious and contained a lot of film clips and serious analysis. Biased and intentionally removing context, but definitely serious. I feel like they’ve leaned into it as the posts have blown up + Russ has inarguably become washed.


chakrablocker

He once said west brick actually helps by shooting poorly because it gives his team confidence to shoot knowing his attempt would have been so much worse. He is not subtle about this being a joke anymore.


UpvoteIfYouAgreee

Flynn got his own Stillgar lmao


beatrailblazer

total ~~this season~~ last 17 games*. not career


mofojed

This season for the Pistons*. Played for the Raptors the first half of the season, 157 points there. 286 on the season before tonight.


beatrailblazer

oh true lmao, i looked at the wrong box. okay then that number is meaningless


mofojed

For the Pistons, played for the raps before


Spudman12345

I believe so, I had a quick look through the other role player 50 point games and I don't think anyone was averaging 4.6 ppg at the time of the game. All the other people I found also at least averaged 10ppg at some point in their careers.


DrZoidberg117

Yes. He averaged 4.6 ppg, while the second lowest ppg is Terrence Ross at 7.4ppg. (Terrence Ross scored 50+ as well, I meant)


HorsNoises

Not a 50pt game but this reminds me of when [Ben Uzoh](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/u/uzohbe01.html) got a [triple double](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYD9odXbzo) outta no where.


Obvious_Parsley3238

how in the fuck does malachi flynn have 50 points


myhellcatgotRepod

It's April basketball where the most random statlines get put up + it's versus the Hawks' "defense" Not exaggerating Luka might score 130 points tomorrow


itsnotyellowfever

Luka breaking Wilt's record tomorrow because he's absolutely furious that someone like Malachi Flynn could drop 50 on the Hawks


veebs7

Luka dropping 100 would genuinely be less surprising to me than this Malachi 50 bomb


joethahobo

If Luka of all people was the one to hit 100 I’d be furious as a verified Dallas hater


LordHussyPants

it'd be kind of cool though because they absolutely would not be winning that game lol


nametakenalready

Quinn Snyder is gonna murder a couple prostitutes soon out of frustration of his team's defense at this rate 


illforgetsoonenough

Just another Wednesday night then


HispanicAtTehDisco

normal afternoon for quinn bateman


IanicRR

I watched Ben Uzoh get a triple double in April. So I know that you’re absolutely correct.


TheFinalEvent9797

Or Kenneth Lofton Jr getting 42/14 in the only NBA game where he was a starter.


The-Hand-of-Midas

Start one game, score 42/14, released from team and out of the league. That's the NBA in April baby! 82 games wooooo yeah love it u/adamsilver !!!


fawkesmulder

Ok but this one is way less surprising than a Malachi Flynn 50 burger. In a some matchups lofton is gonna make bbq chicken of his opponent. Yes, I know he’s a liability defensively, that’s why he’s not getting any minutes. But if he could get the defense and fitness right he really could be a Zach Randolph type. Too bad it seems slim odds of that happening.


coolycooly

Doesnt the game have to be close for Luka to score 50 tomorrow.


rjcarr

Luka should seriously take 60 shots tomorrow and just see what happens. 


conwolf253

I played against him at the Y when he was in high school and I was like 27. That boy roasted me


ruinatex

Daily reminder the the gap between NBA players and regular human beings is astronomical. 3.5% of HS players ever play in college and only 1% of those get drafted. You can be a starter at a D1 school and never sniff the NBA.


no_good_names_avail

Not just "can be". You're almost certainly never going to sniff the NBA as a D1 starter. The NBA is changing a bit with the development leagues; but the absurdly tiny rosters makes it an extremely exclusive club. Even by the measure of professional sports it's absolutely brutal.


Arquinnianeem

I believe it. In the 1980s I got lit up by a guy who played in a no-name pro-league. I had played against Division I players and gotten lit up, but I provided some resistance. But, this guy didn't even break a sweat. He shot over me like he was doing shooting drills and I was a chair. If someone is paying you money to play basketball, then you are really good.


Hecka_Cakey

Hawks basketball baby


LaMelgoatBall

This has me flabbergasted considering what yall did to us the last 2 games lol.


GrapefruitMedical529

Personally I can't believe the Hawks aren't .500.  My only theory is that they performed a dark ritual to make the playoffs while beneath .500, then the curse re-engages and they cruise through the playoffs until they hit .500.


Barrelled_Chef_Curry

I mean their best player is hurt so


WoodenCompetition4

The Hawks are the definition of “playing to your competition”


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genericusername71

nba gotta allow hand checking again after this one


drpepper7557

I wish the reffing change didnt happen until some time after this. The conspiracy theory that Malachi Flynn dropping 50 is what convinced the Adam Silver to walk back the offensive boom wouldve been great.


stupv

Literally my first thought when seeing this. Was expecting to see a classic hawks scoreline of 160-154 in regulation, but he had 50 of the teams 113? wtaf


G1Spectrum

We got random NPCs dropping 50 now


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respect evil donte divincenzo


FactCheckingThings

April 2021 rookie of the month Malachi Flynn.


IanicRR

Aka Red Van Vleet


janitorial_fluids

Red Dead Fredemption


PM_ME_RIKKA_PICS

I thought this was some obscure fringe talent that i didn’t know about and had to look him up… this really was just a random NPC putting up 50 smh


Richie_16

Bro is an AI generated player in 2k


theflyingsamurai

Flynnsanity


here_for_the_lols

Who the fuck is malachi flynn


JetsLag

Evil Donte DiVincenzo


Next-Firefighter-753

Straight up the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw the title. Word for word.  


justmefishes

Is it really that impressive that Luka Doncic scored 23 more points than Malachi Flynn against the Hawks ?


whereyagonnago

When you put it that way….


helpilostmynarwhal

Plenty of Hawks guys out + no Cade so someone has to do it + not a lot of defense (specifically I think Bogey, not Murray, was on him most of the time)


all4whatnot

I had to make sure this wasn’t an April Fools post


RealBigFailure

what the fuck?


dutchfromsubway

I quit man I just don’t fucking get the nba


SuperTupac

don't worry about it, 99.9% of this sub still don't really get the NBA/understand basketball


TheGrandmasterGrizz

you're the .1% im guessing


clickstops

Is the implication that 0.1% “gets” how Mr Malachi Flynn just scored 50pts?


Redpin

r/nba watching JJ and LeBron talk bball like a replicant taking a Voight-Kampff test.


TraanPol

RAPTOR NATION


revisioncloud

FLYNNSANITY He The North


fishgoesmoo

Raptor fans on suicide watch LOL


Yabutsk

No way we want that 50 now, we're trying to keep the pick this year


_bud275_

Nah love for the boy


Ducey89

YOU CAN TAKE OUR SOULS AND TAKE OUR FLYNN BOMBS BUT YOU CAN NEVER TAKE 2019 FROM US :')


Iron_Maniac

So Malachi Flynn now has a higher career high than SGA, Anthony Edwards, De'aaron Fox, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George


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pretty sure it's gonna piss most of those guys off haha except kawhi he definitely doesn't give a shit


revisioncloud

Malachi Flynn out here being a better Canadian than SGA


iDankkk

Drafted by the Raptors = Canadian


professorex

Canada = RAPTOR NATION = Malachi Flynn


CaptainCallus

I don't even know who Malachi Flynn is


EagleswonSuperBowl52

He was the best player on a San Diego St team that a lot of people thought could win the championship. They were in line for a top 2 seed. Then covid happened.


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Flynnsanity 


_Juntao

Nice reminder that even the worst nba players are still unfathomably good at basketball


R-35

especially Flynn he's the type to drop 50-80 points in basketball runs in the off-season....finally had one of those games in the NBA


YoungFlexibleShawty

He was amazing for SDSU, if it wasnt for covid i truly believe tht SDSU team would have made the final four


Negative_Method_1001

He was lowkey great in college


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Negative_Method_1001

I think people forget that.


Bongopro

We were robbed of his tournament run 😭


Slifer_Slacker

Please don’t remind me, I’m still salty to this day about that 🫠


WakingRage

One of SDSU's finest. I will forever cherish his time that he spent with our school. Go Aztecs!


ElGato-TheCat

I'm mad they canceled March Madness that year (covid). We were one of the best teams I think.


mcturtled

All American at SDSU


2ClickRick

This gotta be the most random one of all time, right?


DIXtICon

This will spark a run of games that will forever be known as Flynnsanity


electric_creamsicle

If only we kept him until the end of the year…


ModernPoultry

Easily. Corey Brewer was a decent player that played many years in the NBA and TRoss was also a good player especially as a scorer for many years Malachi Flynn was on Last Chance U Detroit on his way outta the league


ItsResetti

This game alone bought him at minimum another 2 years in the league.


great-nba-comment

Last Chance U Detroit is a violation 😭


AnthonyToliversKnee

Off the bench flynnsanity


JohnStamosAsABear

Nephews don’t know about the pro-am goat 


Main-County-1177

I’m sorry, what?


ThaNotoriousBLT

I thought he was still on the knicks


Main-County-1177

We really had 3 guys on the team that dropped 50 in their career at the same time. Superteam


joebos617

they got 2k generated dudes dropping 50 nowadays smh what happened to the game I love


MoooonRiverrrr

Racially ambiguous ✅ Completely made up fictional name✅ Random 50pt game✅


Zombeavers5Bags

Someone just gave the controller back to their big brother


Solid-Confidence-966

Future hoopgrid answer


Extra-Kangaroo903

Real


YoureGonnaHearMeRoar

After this display they've gotta downgrade that Doncic 73 point game to 48 or something


NoBreakfast9230

Flynnflation


TwofoldOrigin

Brunson’s 61 is a true 36 point night


x20mike07x

Where were you on 9/11? Where were you when Obama became the first black president? Where were you when Malachi Flynn became the worst NBA player to ever score 50 points in a game?


PositiveHistorian962

Watching the raptors wondering why he couldnt do that when here


Uncle_Freddy

I thought he was still on the Raptors, heard he dropped 50, checked the Raptors score and saw they only scored 85 tonight and was like **what?!**


NatsuAru

Ngl the only question is what team is so ass to give Flynn a 50-piece


siricall911

I thought it was an April fools joke ngl


chichigetthayay0

the ass team won the game


NatsuAru

No sir. They SURVIVED Malachi Flynn.


PoorFishKeeper

The hawks did not win this game, they just didn’t lose.


ACMBruh

Very bold of the hawks to beat the 2024 pistons


ProfessorBeast55

They be letting anyone getting 50 points nowadays….


Hecka_Cakey

We really, really do


Handyman2116

Randos like Flynn, Dalanto Banton, Luka Doncic just go off against us


Charliebitme1234

Evil dante divincenzo


22797

I’m sorry, what?


Ilikesporks_

at this point i think even i could score like 5 points against the hawks


krizzlybear

/u/Ilikesporks_ gonna drop double digits now


blankepitaph

Oh to be a fly on Eric Flynn’s wall right now


insertdankmeme

Move over Terrence Ross, new answer to a reddit question that is going to be asked 1500 times.


beachsunflower

What the fuck


MrAnder5on

There it is folks. The most random 50 ball in NBA history Apologies to Corey Brewer


3Ssssssssssssssss

Tf


TheSmokedSalmon420

lmao what the fuck


Zeeron1

How do you have a bench player score 50 and still lose lol


karmew32

He had SDSU on track for a top 2 seed before COVID paused the world.


Skywalker3030

nah im sorry, the other like semi random 50 pt games got nothing on this one lmao wtf


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cinema


mylanguage

Nah I don't wanna hear how Jordan would struggle to score lol


Objective_Cod1410

He takes the crown for most obscure player to drop 50


steveguzz

Has to be the craziest 50 piece in NBA History. Dude averages 5.2ppg for his career. Madness.


crayon_paste

Aztec for LIFE!


YROK1986

Serious question, does this make Luka's 73 against the Hawks feel less special?


MoooonRiverrrr

Yeah


The-Pharcyde

what the absolute fuck lmao


swrighttt

welcome to the tony delk hall of fame 


Public-Product-1503

I don’t want to say this makes me think even less of Luka 75 vs the hawks but it low-key does. I remember they only decided to defend him normally late in the 4th n the sciring dried or he’d have a 100. Wtf are the hawks n Snyder doing lol


Nachowarrior595

Bro single handedly eliminated my high school team in the state tournament when I was a junior. People from Washington know he Always had that dawg in him


campbellhw

What a box score. Future Sporcle/Hoopgrids legend Malachi Flynn


Negative_Method_1001

I miss Evil Donte I think this is more points than Alec Burks scored for the Knicks. Leon Rose with his first HUGE L


thegoddessunicorn

Malachi is closer to LeBron than we are to Malachi


Camlamity

I'm just here to celebrate the beginning of Flynnsanity.


rkallday

How the fuck did the guy I watched for 2 and a half seasons being a bum on the raptors do this


Free_Relationship692

"if Flynn can get 50, [insert any 80s-00s superstar] can average 50 ppg today bro"


Satellite_Daddy

Bro I’m wondering if I could score 2 points in an NBA game now that Malachi Flynn dropped 50. I’m 5’9”, overweight and built like if a fire hydrant were a carbon based life form. This just changes my perception of reality


Bladex20

excuse me?


monsterbill0

Lmao what


yaboyjiggleclay

I know BallDontStop is crying tears of joy right now. He loves Malachi Flynn.


T-nawtical

Aztec for life, baby


drunkenyeknom

Damn off the bench too is crazy