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Found January 07, 2013 on Orlando Magic Daily: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Jameer Nelson,  Scott Skiles
TEAMS: Orlando Magic
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Jameer Nelson has been a stalwart in the Magic lineup for eight years. Longevity gets you close to all kinds of records. Tonight, Nelson will likely reach one of these milestones passing one of the Magic's all-time great point guards. Thanks to eight assists Saturday against New York, Nelson moved one assist away from tying Scott Skiles' franchise record of 2,776 assists. Considering Nelson is averaging a career-high 6.8 assists per game this season and has a 31.8 percent assist rate. Tonight Nelson will enter the Magic record books. Sure it took him 8.5 years and it took Skiles only five years. But who is counting? Longevity counts for something. Nelson has had a kind of torn relationship with passing. In college he was a scoring guard and the knock on him entering the NBA Draft was that he focused too much on his scoring and not enough on his distributing. Still, the Magic took a chance on him trading a future first round pick for Nelson's rights i...
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