A turnover in basketball happens when a team cedes control of the ball to the opposing team before a player attempts to score for their team. This can happen if a player loses the ball, steps out of bounds, intercepts a pass, breaks the rules (such as double dribbling, traveling, violating the shot clock, the three-second, or five-second rules), or commits an offensive foul. Sportswriter for the Boston Globe Bob Ryan claims that his co-worker Jack Barry came up with the idea of the turnover first.
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After the NBA and ABA merged in 1977, this technique was later adopted by the NBA for the 1977–78 season. Turnovers were first formally recorded in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the 1967–68 season. Jason Kidd and John Drew both hold the NBA game record for the most turnovers. On November 17, 2000, Kidd, a member of the Phoenix Suns, committed 14 turnovers while playing the New York Knicks. When playing for the Atlanta Hawks against the New Jersey Nets on March 1, 1978, Drew made 14 mistakes. On May 27, 2015, when James Harden was playing for the Houston Rockets against the Golden State Warriors, he established the record for the most turnovers in an NBA playoff game with 13. Since the WNBA’s first season in 1997, turnovers have been kept track of. A WNBA team has never committed 33 turnovers in a single game.
The National Basketball Association celebrated its 55th season during the 2000–01 campaign. The 2001 NBA Finals saw the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 1 to claim their second consecutive championship. On October 18, 1974, against the Chicago Bulls, Drew made his NBA debut, recording 32 points, 12 rebounds, and three assists. He rapidly established himself with the Hawks, leading the NBA in offensive rebounding (357) and averaged 18.5 points and 10.7 rebounds per game in his rookie campaign.
The NBA All-Rookie Team selected him. Drew was a standout player for the Hawks from 1974 to 1982. He was a two-time All-Star with them (1976 and 1980), scoring more than 20 points per game five times (1976–79 and 1981). In his second season, when he was chosen an all-star for the first time, he averaged 21.6 points per game. He nearly averaged 25 points per game the next year, in 1976–1977. He was among the top 10 NBA players in both 1976 and 1977 in terms of both points and points per game.
Individual Game Records – Turnovers Details
- Atlanta Hawks’ John Drew scored 14 against the New Jersey Nets on March 1, 1977.
- Jason Kidd scored 14 points against the New York Knicks on November 17, 2000.
Drew was the first player to be suspended by NBA commissioner David Stern for several infractions of the league’s drug policy in January 1986. Even though he wasn’t playing for an NBA team at the time, the league regarded his most recent rehab stay as his third infraction of the league’s drug rules. He was unable to apply for readmission until the 1987–88 campaign. The policy, according to Drew, “will prevent guys from coming forward and acknowledging they still have a problem.”.
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