- It was a very active Monday night in the Challenge with a lot of picks ticking a lot of boxes.
- One box left unchecked was Ryan's selection for the night as he was ineligible for either of the two Last Man In options from the Raptors.
- After completing our first Pick One "trade" (two players traded for one another picked for both teams) a day prior with Spencer Dinwiddie, we had our second with Trevor's selection Josh Richardson. Traded from Boston for the picked out Derrick White to San Antonio, this whole segment is being put together to gloss over the fact that he only put up 6 PRA against the Timberwolves in a game where his team scored 139 points.
- A third straight Junior selection for Colin ended up being his second straight picked out selection. He had tried and failed two prior times to take the Warriors wing but this time he finally got it over the line. However, the fourth picked out Warrior of 2021-22, a new high for a single team to date, only netted 11 PRA in 22 minutes.
- Last Man In Fred VanVleet earned Lou 25 PRA in Toronto's win over the Lakers even though he shot only 3-for-14 from the field in the contest.
- Darius Bazley had his second consecutive 25+ point game starting for the Thunder, earning Al 33 PRA and allowing him to keep a firm grip on third place on the leaderboard.
- This of course meant the rich got richer as game leader Matt took home daily top score honors through Charlotte's Terry Rozier. Scary Terry nearly scored more points than any other selection had PRA en route to 40 PRA total in the Hornets' much-needed victory over Oklahoma City. The haul also made Matt the first person to surpass 4000 total PRA this season.
- Optimally, Matt could have rubbed twice as much salt in the wounds of his opponents had he went with Karl-Anthony Towns. KAT had himself a night for the ages with 80 PRA, including 60 points, against San Antonio. It would have tied Bradley Beal's 60 point performance from January 6th, 2021 as the most points in a selection. For bench bargains, Bones Hyland's 54 rookie-boosted PRA could have only been had by Lou while more than a few more people could have had Lonnie Walker IV or Aleksej Pokusevski's 27 PRA.
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