Unless there is the unlikely event that someone beats him in the next few days, andThe NBA’s preseason leading scorer will be a name that probably no fan of the league knows. And it is that he will not even be one of the members of any of the 30 franchises, but the figure of one of FIBA teams who take part in this series of exhibition games. More specifically, from Maccabi Raanana Israeli.
The report is for Jason Seegerswhich this Sunday exploded with 40 points during his team’s 144-97 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. A performance made all the more relevant when we consider that Siggers reached that number with nothing less than 37 years old.
The 1.88 point guard has been in Israeli basketball for six years and to date, he never had any kind of contact with the North American league. I hadn’t even participated in Summer League. However, his outburst against OKC puts him in the competition’s elite company: over the past four years, only James Harden (2), Stephen Curry (2) and Kendrick Nunn managed to add at least 40 points in a preseason game.
This Sunday it was Siggers’ turn, thanks to a stat line of his 15 of 26 from the field, 5 of 9 on 3-pointers and 5 of 5 on free throws.
Even as an exhibition game, it will be a night that will be hard to forget for a Siggers who not even at the FIBA level did he have much visibility in major clubs and that he had underperformed in his two previous showings in this series against NBA opponents: 12 points in a loss to Portland and 15 to the Clippers.
On the OKC Thunder side, his figure Lou Dort with 23 points in 18 minutes, while they also stood out Eugene Omoruyi (25 points and 12 rebounds), the rookie Usman Dieng (18 points) and Alexei Pokushevsky (15 points, 10 assists and 6 rebounds).
