Navarro made history last night by tying the rookie record for three-point field goals made (8) in a game set by Jason Kidd in 1995 and Chris Duhon in 2005. He scored 28 points, going an almost-perfect 8-for-9 from the three-point line, grabbed two rebounds, and dished-out four assists in 34 minutes.
It was a really good game for him, from the beginning (he connected on his first seven shots from the field, the first five from 3-point range) to the end (he made the first one of three three-pointers in the final 13 seconds of regulation to force overtime), but unfortunately Memphis lost the game 120-118 against New Orleans.
By the way, Navarro leads the NBA in Three-Point Field Goals Per 48 Minutes (6.15), and he is the 9th in the NBA in Three-Point Field-Goal Percentage (51.6%), where the second best rookie, the enormous Kevin Durant (19,7 PPG), is the100th one!!! (29.3%). Apparently, Navarro is not a player for today's NBA (he looks as a shooting guard in a point guard's body). However, he has got something special, something that makes him very valuable as a player, as today's NBA player. We will see.
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