Game Day: Suns (22-50) @ Celtics (46-26), Fri 3/24/17

[Split T]

He did it! 70!!

[carey]

Did Booker really have a 70 point game?

[Sunsfan4life]

70-8 and 6 while shooting over 50% and doing it in 40 shots. In perspective, Kobe scored 60 on 50 shots in his last game.

And we still lost by double digits??? How does that happen!!

[Cap]

Wilt — 100
Kobe — 81
Wilt — 78
Wilt — 73
David Thompson — 73
Wilt — 72
Elgin — 71
David Robinson — 71
Wilt — 70
Booker — 70

11th 70-point game in league history.

[DrSublime]

70.

[Flagrant Fowl]

The Suns (Watson) are getting roasted a bit for Booker's 70.

On one hand, I kinda get it. But com'on, this team has 22 wins and is playing a bunch of kids. Some people need to stop taking their opinions so seriously.

[Mori Chu]

Pretty amazing. While you can dispute how he got to 70 or whether every point or basket is earned, that is still a pretty crazy statistical milestone. Most points ever scored in a game by a Phoenix Sun, and one of the top individual scoring games in NBA history. More points than MJ, Bird, Magic, Barkley, ... ever scored in a game. That is kind of insane.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/1899 ... on-celtics

[Mori Chu]

Maybe we should just put Booker in the Ring of Honor now.

[Cap]

65 points or more in a loss has been done eight times in league history: seven times by Wilt and once by Devin.

[Split T]

He was at 65 when we started fouling with 45 seconds to go. We only fouled twice, added two extra possessions. He would have got the first possession where he hit 3 free throws regardless. So the fouling probably took him from 68 to 70

[Wally_West]

https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/845462641434918912

[The Bobster]

Wilt Chamberlain's 78-point game was the NBA record at the time and came in a 3-OT game where Elgin Baylor scored 63 for the Lakers

David Thompson's 73-point game came on the final day of the season in a loss to Detroit (George Gervin scored 63 points that night to squeak by and win the scoring title)

5 of the 11 players scoring 70 or more points went played on the losing team. (Chamberlain came up on the short side in 3 of his 6 70-point games, Thompson and Booker were the only others).

Booker, Thompson and Kobe Bryant are the only guards to score 70 points in a game.

Booker's 21 FGM are the fewest by a players scoring 70 points, his 24 FTM were the 2nd most after the 28 FT Wilt made in his 100-point game.

[wpmiller42]

Wow. That's just crazy.

[O_Gardino]

Whatagame!

[Superbone]

Might see a 40 point night from booker. He's got 19 with 5 to go in the first half and seems to be the only one who's got anything going.

[Superbone]

I love Booker, but he'll keep jacking up shots without passing and his fg% will fall like a rock.

21 for 40 tonight.

[Superbone]

66-43 at the half.

Please UCLA, he's all yours if you want him.

This is on Watson? We started Ulis-Booker-JonesJr-Chriss-Len. I mean...

No kidding. Even the veterans are being ridiculous around here.

[Superbone]

40 for Booker! Still a minute to go in the 3rd. Will he drop 50?

[Superbone]

There's 50! Let's go for 60! 52 now

[Superbone]

Wow 61! Go for 70!