Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:23 pm
by Superbone
Somebody asked if Booker would score 50 points in a game in his career. I said, "If not this year, next year." No, it wasn't 50, count 'em, 70 points!
* The youngest player in NBA history to score 60+ points.
* The most points in Phoenix Suns history.
* The most points scored against the Celtics in their 70 year history.
Congratulations to our own Devin Booker. This is just the start.
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:21 pm
by Superbone
carey, duplicating this here if that's OK with you. This feat deserves its own thread.
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Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:31 pm
by TOO
Anyone care to wet blanket this? INF, where are you?
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:58 pm
by carey
TheOriginalOriginal wrote:Anyone care to wet blanket this? INF, where are you?
Jay Caspian Kang did a fine job of that already.
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Devin Booker's 70 points for Phoenix Suns can elevate his stature in league Second year player is youngest player to achieve mark and becoming sixth player in history to achieve feat
NBA.com Staff
Mar 24, 2017 11:08 PM ET
The roll call of the exclusive club is illustrious and historic: Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, David Robinson, Elgin Baylor, David Thompson. All managed to drop 70 points in a game at some point in their career. And now they’re joined by a baby-faced guard who at 20 years and 145 days becomes the youngest to smash that barrier.
Devin Booker ran around, through and over the Celtics’ defense Friday for 70 on the nose in a shooting display rarely seen on an NBA court. He did it by taking 40 shots and also making a remarkable 24 of 26 from the line. Even more impressive is that he did it against a 47-26 Boston team with the league’s 11th-best defense, and on the road.
And nobody’s ever scored that much against the Celtics in their long and distinguished history, with Booker shredding the Celtics more than, among others, Michael Jordan, whose 63-point outburst in the playoffs remains a vivid part of league history.
It was the type of performance that will only elevate Booker’s promise as the next best shooting guard in the league, and it’s easily the high water mark this season for the disappointing Suns, whose record will likely finish among the bottom three or four in the NBA.
Michael Jordan never scored 70 in a game. Indeed, only five players in NBA history have: Wilt, Kobe, Elgin, and the Davids Thompson and Robinson. We can add Devin Booker to that list after the 20-year-old scored that number in a loss to the Celtics tonight in Boston. That puts him past the aforementioned Jordan (whose best night was 69), Pete Maravich (68), and Rick Barry (64). Can we get this kid a nickname already?
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:30 pm
by carey
I totally made this happen with my reverse jinx of posting his sub 30% from the field numbers since Bledsoe was taken out.
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:32 pm
by TOO
Superbone wrote:The web is blasting this feat from many sources:
Michael Jordan never scored 70 in a game. Indeed, only five players in NBA history have: Wilt, Kobe, Elgin, and the Davids Thompson and Robinson. We can add Devin Booker to that list after the 20-year-old scored that number in a loss to the Celtics tonight in Boston. That puts him past the aforementioned Jordan (whose best night was 69), Pete Maravich (68), and Rick Barry (64). Can we get this kid a nickname already?
Nice.
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:44 pm
by Superbone
carey wrote:I totally made this happen with my reverse jinx of posting his sub 30% from the field numbers since Bledsoe was taken out.
It's all you, man!
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:00 pm
by UglyTruth
This is amazing. I loved seeing the Garden actually rooting for Booker to do well.
Too bad the celtics players aren't as classy as their fans.
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:43 pm
by Wally_West
The question now is will Devin Booker ever get more than 70?
Re: Devin Booker scores 70 points in a regulation game making NBA history
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:12 am
by Cap
Wally_West wrote:The question now is will Devin Booker ever get more than 70?
I'd hate to think he's peaked before he can even buy a beer.
Brandon Jennings had a 55-point game as a 20-year-old rookie. It's been downhill for him since.
