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Malik Monk celebrates (Reuters)
You don’t see something like this every day. 351 points – this is what the Los Angeles Clippers and Sacramento provided this morning (Saturday) in a game that received a place of honor in the NBA history books. In the end, the Kings won 175:176 after two overtimes and this is the game with the second most points in the history of the best league in the world.
And it’s not that before the overtime the result was particularly low, yes? Already in the first quarter both teams scored 40 points each. In the second quarter it was 36:40 for the Clippers, in the third it was “only” 34:37 for the team from Los Angeles and in the fourth 36:43 for Sacramento.
At the end of four quarters the scoreboard showed 153:153 and in the summation of the two overtimes the Clippers scored one more point – 22:23 – in a game that none of the players on the floor or the spectators will forget.
Malik Monk scored 45 points for the winners, Diaron Fox (12 assists) scored 42 points, Domantas Sabonis had 20 (10 rebounds), Keegan Murray had 15 and Harrison Barnes and Kevin Harter had 11. Kawhi Leonard was the man for the Clippers with 44 points, Paul George (10 rebounds) added 34, Norman Powell 24, Russell Westbrook 17 and 14 assists in his debut, and Mason Plumlee (10 rebounds) and Terence Man 10 each.
