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NBA Team of the Week (3/21/21-3/27/21)

 It's Monday, you know what that means! It's time to take a look back at the past week and see who the best players were around the league. Selections are based mostly on the player's stats, but (minus the rookie of the week) their team's record during the week is also taken into consideration. Click here to check out last week's if you missed it . If not, let's get into this. Point Guard: De'Aaron Fox As they're on the hunt for their first playoff appearance since 2006, the Sacramento Kings haven't had the best season. Coming into this past week at 17-25, they were well out of playoff contention. This week, however, the Kings were red hot, going a perfect 4-0 and improving their record to 21-25 on the year. While they're still out of the playoff hunt right now, sitting at 11th in the West and a game behind Warriors for the final spot in the play-in tournament. The Kings had two standout performers this week, and the first I'll be talking abo...

Raging Bulls: The Bizarre Time Bobby Portis Punched Nikola Mirotić in the Face and Made Him Better

December 9th, 1977 saw one of the most brutal punches in the history of non-punch-centric sports. In a match-up between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets, a battle for a rebound between the Lakers' Kermit Washington and Rockets' Kevin Kunnert escalated into a full-on fight at half-court. As Washington's teammate, the legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, attempted to break up the fight (something both Abdul-Jabbar and Kunnert attest to) by holding Kunnert back, Washington landed a punch on Kunnert. There are details of the fight that have multiple, conflicting accounts, but what happened next is not up for dispute. Rockets' star forward Rudy Tomjanovich ran toward the fight in an attempt to break it up. Washington, not knowing Tomjanovich's intentions, delivered a vicious punch directly to Tomjanovich. The results were devastating. Tomjanovich suffered a facial fracture so severe it detached from his skull, a cerebral concussion, and a broken jaw & nose, a...