Hawks' Dyson Daniels makes the NBA story with record theft through NBA history

The Atlanta Hawks Guard Dyson Daniels is a top perimeter defender in the NBA. In his third NBA season and in Atlanta, he has an average of three steals per game. This is most of it in the league through a landslide. No other player has an average of two steals per game this season.

In the victory of the Hawks 134-102 against the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday, Daniel's three more swipes. This made 194 steals in the season, a number that has not reached any other player in the past 15 years. The last player who crossed this threshold was Chris Paul, who did this in the 2008/09 season with 216 steals. Paul had 217 steals the previous year.

Now Daniels is in the same company with 13 games of the regular season.

As one of the leading defenders of the NBA, Daniels consistently finds a way into the lanes and the pressure to cause the ball to the biggest stars in the league.

Last week, while he played the Hornets at the same time, he cleverly picked up a pass from Charlottes Miles Bridges and looked like a defender in the basketball court.

The record of the NBA all-time steals in a single season is probably inviolable, since Alvin Robertson had 301 swipes in the 1985/86 season as a member of the San Antonio Spurs. This year Daniels is at speed to enforce 200 steals, which puts him in the Elite company. He turned 22 on Monday and made the sky for the best basketball thief in the NBA for over a decade.

Daniels was traded in Atlanta in the low season, in a deal that sent Dejount Murray to the New Orleans Pelicans. Daniels spent two seasons in New Orleans after the pelicans moved in with number 8 in 2022.