Another scoring spree in the NBA: Luka Doncic scores 73, Devin Booker scores 62
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Luka Doncic and Devin Booker went on another NBA scoring spree on Friday night, making this a week like none other in league history.
Luka Doncic and Devin Booker went on another NBA scoring spree on Friday night, making this a week like none other in league history.
Doncic broke his own Dallas franchise record by scoring 73 points -- tying the fourth-most in NBA history -- and Booker scored 62 for the Phoenix Suns in the second highest-scoring game of his career to add to a week of offensive explosions the likes of which the league has never seen.
Friday marked only the fifth time in NBA history -- and amazingly, the second time this week -- where two players scored at least 60 points, after Joel Embiid scored 70 for Philadelphia and Karl-Anthony Towns had 62 for Minnesota on Monday.
Before that, the most recent such occurrence of two 60-point games on the same day was on April 9, 1978, when David Thompson scored 73 and George Gervin scored 63. The NBA went nearly 46 years without another such day before Embiid and Towns pulled it off.
Doncic had a game topped by only Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant -- Friday was the fourth anniversary of the Los Angeles Lakers great's death -- on the NBA's all-time scoring list. Chamberlain scored 100 on March 2, 1962; Bryant scored 81 on Jan. 18, 2006; Chamberlain had 78 on Dec. 8, 1961.
And now, Doncic has joined their echelon, his 73 tying Thompson and Chamberlain (who did it twice) for fourth-most ever in an NBA game.
"It was beautiful," Doncic said.
