Players who shot worse than Kevin Durant last year

The rush early last season to label Durant a chucker — which led to the Horford for ROY campaign — always bothered me. Even today someone in Hollinger’s chat derisively called him a “machine gunner.” But he ended the season at 43%, better than:

• Shane Battier
• Baron Davis
• Tracy McGrady
• James “Cashin’ In” Posey
• Kirk Hinrich
• Mike Bibby
• Jamal Crawford
• Jerry Stackhouse
• Stephen Jackson
• Rafer Alston
• Malik Rose (sorry, Hengst)

Throwdown with Carmelo Anthony

Just in time for Team USA’s ramp-up to Beijing, I got around to digging this up out of my photo archives. It’s from a qualifying tournament for FIBA Americas held in Las Vegas in the fall of 2008.

You also gotta see the guy he’s dunking on for Argentina, on the left, with The Moustache. Easily my favorite player for the Argentines, he was straight out of Prefontaine. If you can’t see it on this version, click through to Flickr for higher-res.