{"id":476946,"date":"2024-01-27T03:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476946"},"modified":"2024-01-27T03:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T07:24:24","slug":"mavericks-doncic-notches-73-tied-for-4th-in-nba-history","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mavericks-doncic-notches-73-tied-for-4th-in-nba-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks\u2019 Doncic notches 73, tied for 4th in NBA history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a> had a night to remember before the beginning of the weekend, lighting up State Farm Arena for a career-high 73 points in a 148-143 triumph against the Hawks in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the highest-scoring match in the league this campaign, passing the 70-point performance by <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/philadelphia-76ers\/\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/\">Joel Embiid<\/a> a few days ago vs. the Spurs. It also tied Wilt Chamberlain and David Thompson for the 4<sup>th<\/sup>-highest output in National Basketball League history. Wilt, who owns the league record with 100 points, also had a 78-point match, while Kobe Bryant scored 81 points on January 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2006.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HISTORIC 73-POINT NIGHT FROM LUKA DONCIC \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 73 PTS<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd25 25\/33 FGM (75.8%)<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd25 15\/16 FTM<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd25 8 3PM<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the 4th player in NBA history to score 73+ points and the first ever to score 70+ on 75% or higher from the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Afm9cyJung\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Afm9cyJung<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1751076926142222473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those are legendary players,&#8221; Luka admitted. &#8220;I still can\u2019t believe it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was just the 15<sup>th<\/sup> 70-point match in the league, and the Slovenian is the 10<sup>th<\/sup> basketballer to do it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ij0PpNDMou\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ij0PpNDMou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luka Doncic (@luka7doncic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luka7doncic\/status\/1751109504769708441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He notched a 3-pointer with less than 3 minutes remaining on the clock to reach the 70-point mark. With Mavs leading 140-136, Doncic scored another 3-pointer. Luka had 41 points at halftime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kobe Bryant tragically passed away on January 26, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 scored a career-high 73 points on January 26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107: \u201cIt\u2019s very special, we all love Kobe man\u2026 it\u2019s special, on the same day, obviously I wish he was here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His profile photo and header is still Kobe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lUXvvpteg3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lUXvvpteg3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Landon Thomas (@sixfivelando) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixfivelando\/status\/1751115091968180339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic had a night to remember before the beginning of the weekend, lighting up State Farm Arena for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476947,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16747,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,18115,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Dallas superstar scored 73 points vs. the Hawks.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476949,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476946\/revisions\/476949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476946"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476946"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}