In Tuesday's episode of the Fantasy Basketball podcast, Joe Polito and I compiled a list of our favorite stats from off the beaten path for the first half of the season. Whether it was something dug up from Basketball-Reference.com's Play Index or NBA.com's Player Tracking archive, these were all facts or stats that might not be evident in your typical box score.

Some of them can tell us something meaningful about the season as a whole or individual players and teams, and some of them are just fun. With a cold, dark, lonely stretch without basketball about to hit after tonight, may this help hold you over while we wait for the All-Star break to end. 

0.38

Hassan Whiteside averages .38 blocks for every opponent field-goal attempt defended at the rim, per NBA.com tracking data -- 2nd highest among top-50 in blocks this season. Klay Thompson is No. 1, at .51. He is blocking a ton of shots away from the rim, which gives him a nice little boost at the guard position.

1

James Harden is averaging 27-plus points, 6-plus assists and 2-plus steals, to go along with 2.7 3-pointers per game, the only player to combine those averages for a season. If you take out 3-pointers, he joins Michael Jordan (three times), Dwyane Wade (twice), LeBron James, Allen Iverson, Pete Maravich and Rick Barry (once). He is having a historically good all-around season, and is my top option in category-based Fantasy leagues right now. 

2

Of the players averaging between 20-24 minutes, James Johnson and Rudy Gobert are the only players averaging at least one block and one steal per-36 minutes and shooting better than 60 percent from the field. Both have shown what they can do when they get heavy minutes. 

This is also the number of members of the 10-plus point, one-plus 3-pointer, one-plus steal and one-plus block per game club: Draymond Green and Danny Green. As noted earlier both are unlikely members of the Rotisserie top-10.

3

K.J. McDaniels averaging 1.3 blocks per game. Joining Ron Harper, Jerry Stackhouse and Vince Carter as the only players to reach that mark as rookie guards/small forwards, per Basketball-Reference. His Roto upside is off the charts down the line. 

4

Of the current top-10 in Rotisserie value for the season, only four were in the top 10 last season: Stephen Curry, James Harden, Kyle Lowry and John Wall.

Kevin Durant (first last year), Kevin Love (3rd), Carmelo Anthony (6th), Paul George (7th), LeBron James (8th) and DeAndre Jordan (9th) have all fallen out of the top 10. Only Jordan and Love do not have serious injuries as an excuse, though Jordan is just outside of the top 10 and remains as consistent as ever. 

Chris Paul (14th last year), Damian Lillard (11th), Anthony Davis (13th), Klay Thompson (23rd), Draymond Green (76th) and Danny Green (82th) are the new faces. I would expect Green to fall out at some point, but he has been a true seven- or eight-category contributor overall while missing just one game. 

Additionally, four players are currently averaging three 3-pointers made per game: Kyle Korver, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Wesley Matthews. Only eight players have done it in history. 3-pointers are up eight percent league-wide since 2012-13, and 18 percent since 2008-09. That actually makes the elite 3-point bombers a bit less valuable than they might have been in years past, with 17 players averaging at least 2.0 makes per game and 127 with at least 1.0 per game. 

4.6 

4.6 percent of all field-goal attempts this season have been dunks, per Basketball-Reference.com. DeAndre Jordan (160), Tyson Chandler (138), Anthony Davis (112) and Andre Drummond (102) are the only players with more than 102 dunks on the season. That sounds good for Drummond, but the share of his shots that has been a dunk has fallen from 36.5 as a rookie to 25.6 last season to just 21.0 this season. It's not hard to see why his field goal percentage has dropped 120 points in a single season. 

5

Robin Lopez, Joakim Noah, Andre Drummond, Rudy Gobert and Enes Kanter top 5 in contested rebound percentage. Noah's placement here comes as something of a surprise, considering his overall struggles with health. 

7

Of the current top 10 in Fantasy points per game, seven are holdovers from last season: Kevin Durant, LeBron James, James Harden, Stephen Curry, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and John Wall.

LaMarcus Aldridge (13th last year), Kevin Love (33rd) and Carmelo Anthony (11th) have fallen out. Love's drop was expected, though this has been more extreme than anyone probably thought. His assist rate dropping has been a big disappointment. 

DeMarcus Cousins (12th last year), Anthony Davis (16th) and Russell Westbrook (11th) are all new to the top 10, and I wouldn't expect any of them to fall out in the next five years or so.

8.5

Rondo's assist opportunities dropped from 20.5 per game in Boston to 12.0 in Dallas. This despite his teammates shooting slightly better in Dallas on his passes. Rondo was averaging 76.9 frontcourt touches per game with Boston, down to 58.6 in Dallas. That isn't terribly surprising, though it does at least confirm that this wasn't just a stretch of bad luck for Rondo in his new home.

25

Draymond Green joins Scottie Pippen, Chris Webber and Larry Bird as the only players to make at least 25 3-pointers in a season while averaging at least 8.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.0 blocks per game. He is currently second among that group with 69 makes from long range, 40 behind Pippen's 1994-95 season. 

27

GSW and BOS play the most games post-ASB with 31. DAL only team with just 27. That means your Mavericks players will have the opportunity to rack up just 87.1 percent as many numbers in the second half. Keep that in mind if looking to make a trade. 

41.0

Ten players ever have played 29-plus minutes per game while shooting below 41.0 percent at the free-throw line. Three are playing this season: Andre Drummond, DeAndre Jordan and Rajon Rondo. The overall rate of free-throw attempts per field-goal attempt is down to the fifth-lowest level ever, making the impact of a disastrous high-volume free-throw shooter even more deleterious. At least Rondo never goes to the free-throw line anymore!

52.8

Kyle Korver is shooting 52.8 percent from 3-point range on 5.8 attempts per game. Tyreke Evans, Nikola Pekovic, Tony Wroten and Russell Westbrook are all shooting below 52.8 percent on the same amount of attempts per game -- within 5 feet of the rim. It helps that he leads the league in catch-and-shoot field-goal percentage on 3-pointers at 52.1, with 66.3 percent of his attempts defined as catch-and-shoot.

57.7

Among the top-50 in assist opportunities per game, Jrue Holiday had the highest field-goal percentage before his injury, at 57.7. Having Anthony Davis around to toss up lobs to certainly helps, as Tyreke Evans and Eric Gordon's inflated assist numbers with Holiday out can attest. 

90

Roy Hibbert leads the league in hook shot field goals made among players with at least 90 attempts, sinking 60 percent of them. Josh Smith is last in the league in percentage among players with 90 hook shot attempts.

160

DeAndre Jordan has dunked 160 times this season. That is more than the Celtics, Nets, Trail Blazers, Hawks, Heat, Lakers, Bulls, Hornets, Grizzlies, Spurs and Pacers have for their entire seasons. It is also 56 less than the Clippers have given up all season.