Jordan Crawford erupts for 72 in China league
Nearly two years after last playing in the NBA, Jordan Crawford made his biggest splash in basketball Friday, scoring 72 points in China to more than double his stateside best.
But the performance of Crawford, however impressive in the box score, reportedly was not enough to spark the Tianjin Ronggang Gold Lions to a win over the Sichuan Blue Whales.
And the Gold Lions have struggled all season despite presence of Crawford, whose NBA career spanned four teams and four seasons, ending in 2014 with the Golden State Warriors.
The loss, in which he shot 21 for 40, including 4 for 12 from 3-point range, and pulled down 16 rebounds, dropped the Gold Lions to 5-23 in the Chinese Basketball Association.
Crawford’s entry into the NBA came two years before he was drafted, as an eventual draft pick in the blockbuster 2008 trade that saw Jason Kidd and Devin Harris among eight players trading places, with Kidd going to New Jersey Nets and Harris to the Dallas Mavericks.
The shooting guad twice scored 32 points in 2012 with the Washington Wizards and started 35 games for the Boston Celtics in the 2013-14 season.
But after a trade to the Warriors, the former Indiana and Xavier player was used strictly off the bench before taking his game to China.
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