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Getty Images Even on teams with great scorers, "just get it to that guy" is bad strategy. It's late in a close game, your team has the ball, and they need to decide what to do. Pick and roll? Isolation? Drive and kick? This shooter? That one? ...

Jamal Crawford is a rare combination: He's both a high-potency scorer in his prime -- with one of the NBA's most feared offensive arsenals -- yet at the same time he's a wily veteran who has played for 16, count 'em, head coaches in his 12 NBA season...

Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images One of the playoffs' most explosive scorers has yet to explode in the NBA Finals. The man can score YouTube knows James Harden well. The way he scores -- a delightful mix of explosive creations off the dribble a...

Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty The best scorer in the NBA might also be the least dramatic. The Game 1 stat sheet says Kevin Durant scored 36 points, including 17 in the fourth. A 17-point quarter is a 68-point pace for an entire game. And yet, i...

Nets' draftee Marshon Brooks is a long, athletic, high-volume wing scorer with nifty footwork, long range, and a knack for getting off clean looks over or around just about any kind of defense. He can hit turnarounds over the outstretched arms of def...

A smart look at how elite scorers fare against the best defenses. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Deron Williams, Brandon Roy and Chris Paul top the list. Andrew Sharp at SBNation on superteams: "It's not a sign of weakness or laziness, and it's not LeB...

Mark Kiszla of The Denver Post: "The Nuggets are pressing Carmelo Anthony for a long-term commitment, because if he declines a three-year, $65 million contract extension now on the table, the team must consider trading its leading scorer. Trade Melo?...

Howard Beck of The New York Times: "Between Kevin Garnett's dunks and Derek Fisher's drives, a new star emerged Tuesday night in the N.B.A. finals: the flat-screen monitor. Perched on the scorer's table, it glowed with a stoic insistence, casting an ...

Cavs: The Blog's John Krolik: "LeBron James is having one of the most efficient scoring seasons a high-volume scorer has ever enjoyed. This much is statistical fact. He has also made me lose at least a year of my life due to his shot selection, which...

Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images The Rockets have been needing a scorer; Kevin Martin is one of the most efficient in NBA history. David Thorpe has been training Kevin Martin every summer in person, and on the phone day in and day out, since Mar...

By John Hollinger PORTLAND -- All Tony Parker could do was sit and watch. Marooned at the scorer's table while he waited for a whistle to get him back in the game, he saw the clock tick inside 4 minutes ... and 3 ... and 2 ... while a six-point Sa...

By John Hollinger SAN ANTONIO-Sometimes one can't appreciate a player with subtle skills until circumstances push him to the forefront. The recent play of the Denver Nuggets provides a good example. With league-leading scorer Carmelo Anthony sidel...

A player who sees the court like nobody's business, plays clever defense, rebounds a lot and really isn't much of a scorer? M. Haubs of the Painted Area has been watching lots of Ricky Rubio, and thinks he might be seeing Kidd. He used a John Holl...

By Henry Abbott The Kings' guard scored 48 last night, is the NBA's fourth-leading scorer at the moment and is tied with Amare Stoudemire for the best true-shooting percentage of any active NBA player. Martin also, it should be pointed out, sta...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz '07, Meet '09. (Johnny Vy/NBAE via Getty Images) LOS ANGELES -- While the Lakers were commemorating their history Friday night by hosting the Warriors at the hallowed Forum, the Clippers were chris...

Jonathan Abrams of The New York Times: "Kevin Durant is one of the N.B.A.'s fastest-rising figures in a league in which a player's star power often develops before his maturity. Yet the 6-foot-9-inch Durant, last season's sixth-leading scorer, h...