Morrow Breaks Summer League Scoring Record
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Anthony Morrow lit it up for 47 against the Hornets to take the NBA Summer League single-game scoring record.
Carve another notch into Anthony Morrow's record of unexpected amazingness as a Golden State Warrior. Morrow closed out the Warriors NBA Summer League play Thursday night by setting the all-time Summer League scoring record, going off for a Kobe-esque 47 points in an exhibition win over the New Orleans Hornets.
Get this guy a flashy nickname, stat!
Morrow, you'll recall, was an undrafted rookie nobody except the Golden State Warriors decided to give a chance to. He scored a ridiculous 37 points in his first NBA start and went on to lead the entire the NBA last year in three-point shooting. Finally, a Warriors personnel decision that makes other NBA teams look foolish!
It's a little bit head-spinning, after earlier in the week his fellow Warrior summer leaguer Anthony Randolph tied the previous Summer League record by scoring 42 against the Chicago Bulls. It's fantastic these two youngsters are doing so well, but some Warriors fans like me are now struggling with Anthony dyslexia. Wait, which one is Anthony Morrow? Are you sure?
So now the Warriors' Anthonys don't just have the same first name. They are No. 1 and 2 in the summer league single-game record book, in games that took place only two days apart from one another. Randolph shares second place with the Phoenix Suns' Marcus Banks, who set that previous record in 2007. Of course, Marcus Banks is living proof that the summer league single-game scoring record does not translate into basketball superstardom. It's just summer league.
It's not like he was being guarded by Dwight Howard or LeBron. He was being guarded primarily by a guy named Julian Wright. If it weren't for Google, I'd probably think Julian Wright was one of the Jonas Brothers. Kelly Dwyer over at Yahoo's NBA blog Ball Don't Lie says rather ludicly, "There is absolutely no value in what we're seeing right now. There is no history of any of this summer play translating into anything significant come fall and winter."
But an all-time record is an all-time record. The aforementioned Dwight Howard and LeBron both played in Summer League early in their NBA careers, but niether one of them ever scored 47 in a summer league game.
And as further proof that Anthony Morrow is an all-around quality human being, the Las Vegas Sun reports that after the game he autographed his jersey and tossed it into the crowd.
Which almost makes up for that horribly ugly fro-hawk Morrow is sporting these days. Bleach it or shave it, dude, bleach it or shave it.
Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who pities the fool that still wears a fro-hawk without bleach, hair dye, or colored-feather roach clips.
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Posted Friday, Jul 17, 2009 - 1:57 PM PST
