TODAY’S SPORTSTAT: Bucks haven’t fared well in openers
By JERRY TAPP
The 2017-18 NBA regular season got started last night with a pair of games. Eleven games will be played tonight.
Looking at the last 10 seasons, there were two teams (San Antonio and Toronto) that won eight of their 10 season-openers, while one team, the Milwaukee Bucks, won only one season-opener in the past 10 years.
Here’s a look at how many season-openers were won by each of the 30 NBA franchises in the last 10 years (2007-08 to 2016-17):
8: San Antonio, Toronto
7: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Portland
6: Atlanta, Indiana, L.A. Clippers, New York Knicks, Oklahoma City
5: Brooklyn, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Golden State, Houston, L.A. Lakers, Minnesota, New Orleans, Phoenix
4: Cleveland, Orlando, Sacramento
3: Utah
2: Memphis, Philadelphia, Washington
1: Milwaukee
Photo by Gery Woelfel
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.