Can you name the NBA 40 point, 0 assist games (1989-90 to present)? by Scal

Year/Team	Player	Points
'05 Lakers		62
'06 Bucks		57
'95 Heat		56
'01 Suns		53
'96 Bulls		50
'98 Wizards		50
'98 Celtics		49
'05 Blazers		47
'92 Heat		46
'96 Heat		45
'93 Heat		45
'06 Nets		45
'09 Magic		45
'09 Mavericks		44
'10 Suns		44
'06 Suns		44
'98 Lakers		43
'00 Heat		43
'90 Sonics		43
'91 Knicks		43
'07 Lakers		43
'95 Jazz		42
'06 Hornets		42
'99 Sixers		42
'91 Knicks		42
'07 Raptors		42
'90 Sixers		42

Year/Team	Player	Points
'09 Lakers		42
'97 Jazz		42
'09 Mavericks		41
'90 Suns		41
'07 Wizards		41
'97 Bulls		41
'91 Hawks		41
'97 Hawks		41
'05 Bucks		41
'04 Nuggets		41
'93 Pistons		41
'01 Rockets		41
'06 Grizzlies		41
'91 Hawks		40
'97 Pacers		40
'00 Bucks		40
'90 Spurs		40
'91 Hornets		40
'94 Suns		40
'07 Hornets		40
'09 Hornets		40
'90 Clippers		40
'06 Bobcats		40
'94 Suns		40
'92 Rockets		40
'02 Lakers		40

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NBA Ball Hogs Quiz

by Scal

Created Mar 24, 2010 in Sports
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	jstef1209:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 04:35 GMT	0 points
	Good quiz, could be shorter time though.

	kinga3:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 13:21 GMT	9 points
	it is one thing when someone like howard or o'neal have no assists, but it says alot for someone like iverson or bryant

	alphadog:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 14:07 GMT	-1 points
	I would argue that simultaneously having 40+ point and 0 assists does not necessarily mean you're a ball hog. Many of the players on this list are forwards, centers or sharp-shooters who aren't "supposed" to be looking for the open man. Alternatively, there are probably some players on this list who were [probably] looking for the open man, but their teammates just couldn’t knock down shots that night causing the burden to be placed on them alone. That being said, there are a few players on this list who definitely deserve to be here, and for that I say good quiz

	Kicking222:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 14:10 GMT	3 points
	Wow, awesome idea for a quiz. Great job.

	y2jdilemma:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 14:23 GMT	18 points
	Im not an Iverson defender by any stretch but, take a look at that 99 Sixers team sometime and tell me who, exactly, he was supposed to pass to?

	lilaz9:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 15:09 GMT	5 points
	i was shocked to see tony delk on this list

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	harpua22:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 17:13 GMT	3 points
	it doesn't matter who your cast is, if you have the ball in your hands as much as AI, you gotta make your players better. Now that i think about it, maybe his cast wasn't that bad, iverson just didn't make them any better.

	nomuny12:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 17:55 GMT	6 points
	You know, it's refreshing to see a sports Sporcle quiz actually challenge me instead of another one of those "Type Go to Start" quizzes that only generate a lot of cheap plays. 5 Oranges and 1 nomination to you Mr. or Mrs. Scal.

	nomuny12:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 17:58 GMT	6 points
	@y2j: Surely the great Todd McCullough would like to interject to your statement. :D

	NickUM:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 20:01 GMT	3 points
	sweet freakin quiz. reallly tested bball history knowledge

	Haushinka:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	5 points
	LOL @ 62pts and no assists for Kobe Bryant. SHOCKING!

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	GushingGyros:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 22:54 GMT	1 point
	also glen rice is a huge ball hog along with kobe

	rudyfernandez5:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 23:29 GMT	1 point
	Not what i expected the quiz to be when i saw the title, but very original and overall great quiz.

	prolifik:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 01:22 GMT	0 points
	Funny how many of these 'ball hogs' are champions, MVPs, and/or future HOFers.

	Scal:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 01:41 GMT	7 points
	About the title...obviously many of these players are not ball hogs. Sometimes great players have to take over the offense in order to help their team win. As a Celtics fan, do I love the fact that Kobe appears twice on the list? Of course. But I really was just trying to pick a title that would grab people's attention.

	SammyG:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 21:49 GMT	4 points
	That's unexpected. Darius Miles, the worst player ever, once scored 47 points in a game? How did he manage to pull that one off?

	jUNKIEd:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 23:07 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz. Glad you found an actual definition for "ball hog" as oppossed to just an arbitraty list.

	dlh1231:	Mar 26th, 2010 at 01:29 GMT	4 points
	Great idea, when I first saw the title for this quiz, I thought it was another one of those crappy quizzes that always top the charts. I was obviously wrong, this is one of the best user-contributed quizzes I've seen. This had better get published.

	teh_DR:	Mar 26th, 2010 at 05:51 GMT	3 points
	Darius Miles?!? (mindblown)

	kbaker1819:	Mar 30th, 2010 at 01:49 GMT	2 points
	I was at the 05 Bucks game in which the player scored a Bucks record 57 points. It was awesome, but they lost.

	jpchi:	Mar 30th, 2010 at 05:29 GMT	1 point
	1....the number of people on this list that shot below 50% for the game in question.

	wk1199:	Apr 23rd, 2010 at 11:01 GMT	2 points
	awesome quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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	kop:	Dec 17th, 2010 at 20:34 GMT	1 point
	Great idea, well done.

	pete32782:	Feb 28th, 2011 at 02:02 GMT	1 point
	Have to agree with the term "ball hog" not really applying in the case of the big men. When you get the ball down to these guys in the low post, they're supposed to score. Yes, occasionally their teams will run a quick give and go, and they'll pick up an assist or two. But more often than not, you don't want them passing the ball, which is why they don't let big men inbound the ball, despite being the tallest players on the floor.

	UTR:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 04:42 GMT	1 point
	Newman.....

	mmag13:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 08:27 GMT	2 points
	Interesting how several people have made snide remarks about Kobe being on the list twice. But no one has mentioned the fact that Jordan is as well...

	Moise:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 08:34 GMT	1 point
	awesome quiz

	Bdogrox2:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 13:06 GMT	1 point
	didnt kobe score 81 one year?

	jeffrey226:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 14:34 GMT	2 points
	yeah but he had assists

	bmo1616:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 15:51 GMT	0 points
	I'm willing to bet that most of these games were losses for the team the particular player was on.

	mininimi:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 19:07 GMT	2 points
	but kobes game was actually what the lakers needed there. Kobe easily could have had more, he sat out the entire fourth quarter. In fact, he outscored the mavericks by himself through 3

	jakajaka:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 22:09 GMT	2 points
	@bmo1616, actually teams were 37-16 when this happened

	brutusj:	Mar 6th, 2011 at 02:23 GMT	1 point
	I thought Mighty Mouse did it once. Am I just imagining that?