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A Jester in the King's court: Is Isaiah Thomas as efficient as Lebron James?

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In the land of the advanced statistician, he with the highest points per possession is king.

For those who don't know, points per possession (hereafter called PPP) is a measure of how many points a team scores on a play in which an individual player finishes a play with either a drawn foul, field goal attempt, or turnover. It is a statistic that attempts to quantify just how valuable an individual player is -- how strong a strand he is in the spider's web, if I might wax poetic for a moment.

The league leaders in this category (among players with a high usage rate -- no one particularly cares that Jeremy Evans has a 1.