2024-01-23 03:51:36
Facing Victor Wembanyama, who was quite competitive before the game and was constantly confronting him during the game, Sixers ace center Joel Embiid was on fire from the first quarter, scoring 70 points in the game, setting a new record in the history of the Sixers in a single game. He scored a new high and became the ninth player in NBA history to score 70 points. He helped the 76ers retreat from the Spurs and win six consecutive games.
Perhaps as early as the first half, there were already some signs of everything.
Sixers ace center Joel Embiid faced the Spurs today. Although before the game he made a surprised expression when he saw the Spurs’ top pick Victor Wembanyama, who was taller than him, seemingly amazed by this underachiever’s height, but He came on the court with all his firepower. Starting from scoring 24 points in the first quarter, it showed that his touch tonight was absolutely extraordinary. The Spurs, whose original defense was at the bottom of the league and whose interior defense was even worse, seemed completely unable to resist Embiid. Raging.
Even after returning to the court after a break in the second quarter, Embiid still scored steadily, scoring 34 points in the first half. Embiid was the only player in the Sixers to score in double figures in the first half, and he was able to compete with today’s stable output. Wembanyama and Devin Vassell, Embiid “intensified” in the third quarter, scoring another 35 points in a single quarter. With 4 minutes and 31 seconds left in the third quarter, Embiid scored the 51st and 52nd points of the game with jumpers, which has set a new record. His personal single-game scoring record this season, Embiid hit a jumper from a 45-degree angle from the left three-point line before the gun sounded in the third quarter, accumulating 59 points, has already tied his record against the Jazz on November 13, 2022. A career single game record.
In other words, every point in the fourth quarter can be set as a new single-game high for Embiid. He rested for nearly half of the quarter before being replaced on the court with 6 minutes and 38 seconds left in the game, but he immediately scored in the first place after coming on. Bo stepped up to the free throw line, and after making the first free throw, he set a new career scoring record and reached the 60-point mark for the first time in his career, tying Allen Iverson’s 60 points on February 12, 2005, and became the Sixers’ first team member. The third player in history to score 60 points, Embiid finally added 11 points in the fourth quarter. Embiid made two free throws in the last 1 minute and 57 seconds of the game, tying Wilt Chamberlain’s 57-year team history scoring record of 68 points. Then Embiid scored a left-hand layup in the next wave of offense, setting a new record in the history of the Sixers and becoming the ninth player in NBA history to score 70 points in a single game.
Embiid was substituted in the last 1 minute and 22 seconds, and accepted the cheers of the fans. His single-game score stopped at 70, and he still became the record holder for the highest score in a single game in the history of the Sixers. In total, he made 24 of 41 field goals and made 24 free throws. 21 of 23, 18 rebounds and 5 assists. The number of shots and hits also set career highs. Although only Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, and Tobias Harris scored in double figures for the Sixers, they still defeated the Spurs 133:123 in the end and won their sixth consecutive victory.
NBA single-game scoring records are as follows:
Player Date Team Opponent Score Wilt Chamberlain 1962.3.2 Philadelphia Warriors New York Knicks 100 Kobe Bryant 2006.1.22 Los Angeles Lakers Toronto Raptors 81 Wilt Chamberlain 1961.12.8 Philadelphia Warriors Los Angeles Lakers 78 Wilt Chamberlain 1962.1.13 Philadelphia Warriors Chicago Packers 73 Wilt Chamberlain 1962.11.16 San Francisco Warriors New York Knicks 73 David Thompson 1978.4.9 Denver Nuggets Detroit Pistons 73 Wilt Chamberlain 1962.11.3 San Francisco Warriors Los Angeles Lakers 72 Elgin Baylor 1960.11.15 Los Angeles Lakers New York Knicks 71 David Robinson 1994.4.24 San Antonio Spurs Los Angeles Clippers 71 Donavan Mitchell 2023.1.2 Cleveland Cavaliers Chicago Bulls 71 Damian Lillard 2023.2.26 Portland Trail Blazers Houston Rockets 71 Wilt Chamberlain 1963.3.10 San Francisco Warriors Syracuse Nationals 70 Devin Booker 2017.3.24 Phoenix Suns Boston Celtics Tik 70 Joel Embiid 2024.1.22 Philadelphia 76ers San Antonio Spurs 70
Embiid set the NBA single-game scoring record this season, only one point shy of tying the 71 points set by Mitchell and Lillard last season. Today is the 18th anniversary of the late star Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game. . After today, Embiid’s average scoring this season has increased to 36.1. If it continues, he will become the fourth player in the past 55 years to average more than 35 points. The first three are James Harden in the 2018-19 season and 2005- Kobe Bryant in 2006 and Michael Jordan in 1986-87.
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