Rookie center Paulas Poscharskis, better known as Posnix, tied an unusual NBA record during garbage time in the Wizards’ blowout loss to the Timberwolves. In just six minutes on the court, he managed to rack up five turnovers, tying the record for most in that span. It started with a questionable offensive foul on a screen that looked clean. Not long after, he got picked clean by Minnesota’s Naz Reid, who seemed to take it personally and hounded Posnix on nearly every possession.
Even more puzzling was that Washington kept feeding him the ball. He got stripped, lost rebounds, and committed two more turnovers on controversial moving screen calls. One pass got deflected and turned into easy points the other way. There was brief hope for a clean stretch, but then turnover number five hit as he fumbled the ball again. Despite the rough sequence, Posnix smiled through it, seemingly unfazed by the chaotic six-minute stretch. It was a wild, sloppy cameo from the Latvian big man, who now shares a strange piece of NBA history.