5 'SPOOKY' MOMENTS FROM OPENING WEEK

Victor Wembanyama already looked as if he were built in a lab by a mad scientist with a League Pass fixation.

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Strictly by the numbers, the Spurs rookie wasn’t necessarily wowing us – his scoring average (15.7 points per game) is less than all but 17 of the 74

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Philadelphia’s Tyrese Maxey almost singlehandedly did the remarkable, if not the impossible: He drained the drama out of the latest James Harden fiasco.

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The Beard’s script of forcing his way from one team to the next played out in the wee hours of Halloween without the screams

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Back in a schlocky 1950s sci-fi flick, Luka Doncic would have been the protagonist who accidentally gets caught in a cloud of nuclear

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fallout and suffers freakish effects. Only in the Dallas guard’s case, he doesn’t grow to Godzilla sizes – his game does.

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It’s a staple of scary movies, the vampire retreating to his coffin between nighttime prowls. You almost wish the New Orleans

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team could provide something like that between games – lined with bubble wrap – for Zion Williamson as a way to keep the big guy healthy.

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Golden State coach Steve Kerr has buried alive (gasp!) future Hall of Famer Chris Paul on the bench in Paul’s initial Warriors season.

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