Luka Doncic had 60 points and 21 rebounds and 10 assists on Tuesday, a stat line never seen before in NBA history.
Forget the numbers for a second. Consider how Doncic got Tuesday’s game into overtime. The Mavericks were down by nine with 27 seconds left in regulation. No team in the last 26 years — since play-by-play records of games began getting tracked digitally —had outscored an opponent by nine points in the last 27 seconds of a fourth quarter, according to SportRadar.Down by three with 4.
But he’s obviously earned serious consideration. So has Doncic, obviously. So has Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, whose monster season so far includes a in November. So has Jayson Tatum, who has Boston looking very much like a team poised to win an 18th NBA championship.The numbers are just absurd, everywhere. Scoring is up in the league, again. Entering Wednesday there were 51 players averaging more than 20 points per game. More than half of them won’t be going to the All-Star Game, because there’s only 24 spots in said game.
On average, somebody has a 40-point game every night the NBA plays now. There have been 70 such games so far this season. There were 119 in the entirety of the 2021-22 regular season; this season, the league is on pace for 168 of them this year. Big nights have never seemed to come this easily.They each have seven triple-doubles already; nobody else has more than three. Doncic is averaging 33.6 points, 8.7 rebounds and 8.
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