Ninth Puns

With three games left, Tobias Harris is at

51.5% for FG% (462/897)

40.1% for 3P% (81/202)

and 89.3% for FT% (175/196)

177 out of 196 free throws would have put him at 90.3%.

He would need to go 14/14 for free throws without a miss in the remaining three games. Not impossible, but pretty unlikely, especially if the Sixers start sitting their starters if they clinch the #1 seed.

Still, a remarkable season for a player on the likely #1 seed who didn't make the All-Star game and won't taste All-NBA (and who also has also played solid defense this year).

[Correction, courtesy of Classics22: They round to the nearest tenth, so he only needs to go 13/13!]

This season sees another 3 pt record broken:

> Washington's Davis Bertans just made the NBA's 26,375th 3-pointer of the season. And with that, the NBA's record for 3-pointers per game has officially fallen -- for the ninth consecutive season. (1/2)

> The record was 12.2 per team, per game, obviously set last year. By getting to 26,375 this year, we're assured of finishing ahead of last season's per-game pace. (2/2)

> https://twitter.com/bytimreynolds/status/1392646883223523328?s=21

Lots of 3’s. Rarely any D. In the end, 3 > 2.

The only members of the .700 club are 7-footers living above the rim: the New York Knicks' Mitchell Robinson last season and Tyson Chandler in 2011-12, and the Chicago Bulls' Artis Gilmore in 1981-82. Ingles has a shot at catching that group over Utah's final seven games of the season.

In a stat dominated by uber-efficient big men -- and Kyle Korver six years ago -- only eight players in NBA history have recorded a better true shooting percentage than Utah's Joe Ingles this season. And if he can crack the .700 mark, he'll join an even more exclusive list.

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Alright, this might sound batshit crazy, but Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus aren’t the only planets in the solar system. There’s a secret ninth one that NASA, and possibly others, doesn’t want you to know about.

There’s this old tale in astrophysics, or astronomy, or something, that regards a theoretical planet called “Counter-Earth,” which is a planet on the complete opposite side of the Sun, and it’s kind of hard to prove or disprove, considering we can’t see it because it’s blocked by the Sun and it would be pretty damn difficult to get all the way around an orbit to get to this planet. So, like Last Thursday-ism, it stands as a paradox.

Or something.

I honestly have no idea what I’m talking about, given I’m only a high school student. I do, however, know the answer to this Counter-Earth paradox, and I’ll probably make an update later if I find out more information.

My story starts about a week ago in the basement of a decently-sized house secluded in the middle of an Ohio forest, where I sat in a swivel chair staring at a computer screen and waiting for it to take me into my fifth period: science class. One of my best friends, Mike, sat across from me at a parallel table, feet up on the table and eating a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, same as always. His lunch period was during this time, so he wasn’t in class. He was browsing the very site on which you read this story right now, every so often turning his phone around to show me a meme he found. I don’t like my science teacher much, so I usually looked over and read the memes.

When my teacher instructed the class to finish an assignment on paper, I finished quickly and opened my book while waiting for everyone else to finish. I then heard a quiet, “Hey, dude,” coming from behind the book, so I dropped the book a little to find the face of my friend staring back at me, smirking.

“Yes?” I remember asking him.

“Hearing you talk about planets and stuff reminded me of a thing my dad is working on at the CIA,” he replied, bouncing his eyebrows a little. He did that a lot, mostly when he wanted someone to ask him to elaborate.

His dad worked for the CIA, and he was pretty high up, so I didn’t see much of the guy. He usually had important government stuff to work on, so he wasn’t even in the country very often. Even considering this, he was my dad’s best friend growing up, so my family tried to hang out with his family as much as possible, which included a lot of

I was looking for mystery movies with a theological/religion-based setting, with a focus on the mystery aspect rather than horror.

You could count the Dan Brown stories like The Da Vinci Code in this sub-genre but it would be nice to find movies that have a medieval or old school setting. I did a bit of googling for the same and discovered the series 'Cadfael', which is about a medieval monk solving mysteries. But I was wondering if anyone had any movie recommendations.

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Allow me to rearrange the order of my most prized possessions.