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NBA Game Scores
InsideHoops.comDaily NBA game scores for the NBA regular season, plus player stat leaders in points, rebounds and assists for each game. Also read NBA game recaps. And to view highlights with your own eyes, watch NBA videos:
2023-2024 NBA REGULAR SEASON GAME SCORES
GAMES OF FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2023 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toronto 116 22 32 23 39 Barnes 31 Achiuwa/Barnes 10 Barnes 10 Charlotte 119 35 31 24 29 Hayward 24 Bridges/Richards 8 Rozier 13 Detroit 91 23 21 24 23 Cunningham 21 Hayes 7 Cunningham 6 Orlando 123 28 30 35 30 F. Wagner 27 Bitadze 8 Anthony 6 Atlanta 114 23 45 24 22 Hunter 24 Capela 16 Murray 9 Philadelphia 125 35 27 31 32 Embiid 38 Embiid 14 Maxey 7 Washington 97 18 29 24 26 Kuzma 17 Coulibaly 10 Avdija 4 Brooklyn 124 26 24 40 34 Bridges 21 Claxton 15 Dinwiddie 9 Cleveland 111 17 36 35 23 Mitchell 27 Mitchell 13 Garland/Mitchell 6 Miami 99 25 27 23 24 Lowry/Richardson 17 Love 12 Lowry 5 Minnesota 127 33 27 38 29 Towns 24 Gobert 20 Conley 7 Memphis 103 31 24 24 24 Jackson Jr. 21 Aldama 10 Rose 7 Golden State 136 28 34 22 34 18 Curry 34 Saric/Kuminga 12 D. Green 13 Oklahoma City 138 19 37 33 29 20 Gilgeous-Alexander 38 Giddey 9 Gilgeous-Alexander 5 Chicago 121 24 28 35 34 White 24 Vucevic 16 DeRozan 10 San Antonio 112 33 30 20 29 Wembanyama 21 Wembanyama 20 Jones 8 Houston 114 27 25 40 22 VanVleet 26 Sengun/Smith Jr. 10 Sengun 7 Denver 106 22 26 26 32 Jokic 23 Jokic 16 Jackson 6 L.A. Clippers 117 32 27 29 29 Leonard 41 Zubac 12 Harden 8 Utah 103 26 20 29 28 Collins 20 Collins 13 Clarkson/Horton-Tucker 5 Dallas 125 37 34 26 28 Doncic 32 Lively 9 Doncic 10 Portland 112 22 38 30 22 Simons 30 Camara/Sharpe 9 Simons 8 New York 123 32 33 30 28 Barrett/Brunson 23 Hartenstein 16 Hart 7 Boston 133 33 41 35 24 White 30 Horford 10 Holiday/Tatum 5 Sacramento 114 24 26 33 31 Fox 34 Sabonis 17 Fox 7 Phoenix 106 26 33 12 35 Booker 28 Nurkic 9 Booker 7 GAMES OF THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2023 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indiana 128 27 36 28 37 Haliburton 27 Hield 11 Haliburton 15 Milwaukee 119 29 22 43 25 G. Antetokounmpo 37 G. Antetokounmpo 10 Lillard 7 New Orleans 89 30 24 17 18 Murphy 14 Daniels 8 Ingram 7 L.A. Lakers 133 29 38 43 23 James 30 Davis 15 James 8ABOUT NBA SCORES: HOW TO READ NBA GAME SCORES
What you already know is, NBA games have four quarters, and if a game is tied at the end of the fourth quarter than the games goes into an overtime (OT) period. If a game is tied at the end of that first overtime, it goes into a second overtime (2OT), also known as double overtime. And you guessed it, next would come a third overtime (3OT), also known as triple overtime. On and on it goes. In general, the average NBA game ends in regulation -- which means it ended after four quarters. But plenty of contests do reach overtime. There's nothing particularly shocking about double overtime, either. It happens. Triple-overtime is more rare of course. And beyond that, I'd have to look up when the last quadruple overtime game was, because they don't happen too often.
As for NBA game scores, one of the first lessons you learn watching a lot of pro basketball is that when a team takes an early lead that sounds sizable, it doesn't mean the game is over. Don't stop watching a game because one team takes a 15-4 lead in the first quarter, for example. Assuming the team that is losing isn't some sort of historically bad squad, if they're even half decent it's quite possible that you'll blink your eyes and a few minutes later the score will be a more respectable 19-12 or something like that. And perhaps tied or at least close to tied by the end of the first quarter. Basketball is a game of runs. It's quite common for one team to hit a few shots in a row while the other team misses most or all of theirs. There are lots of 4-0, 6-0 or 8-2 runs in NBA basketball games. An 8-2 run is nice, but not anything shocking. A 10-2 or 10-0 run deserves more attention. Once we get to a 15-0 run or 15-2 run or something like that, that's the sort of run that would cause me to sit up and pay attention. But a 6-0 run here or an 8-2 run there, it's all par for the course.
As for reading NBA scoreboards and looking at the stat leaders, again, NBA basketball is a team game. Every team needs a leader, and actual good teams needs multiple leaders, and the guys who score get noticed first when looking at NBA box scores, followed by rebounding and assist leaders, and if you go deeper then of course blocks and steals are of interest. But it'll always be a team game, and if a team wins by a big scoring margin and somebody on the squad scored 30 on a good shooting percentage, rest assured that the rest of the team also did their part, on both offense and defense.
Still, all of that aside, an NBA player scoring 20 or more points is pretty standard in almost every game. A player scoring 30 also happens quite often, but not necessarily every game. A player scoring 40 or more happens less often and is pretty impressive. But a player scoring 50 will draw national attention. A player scoring 60 is putting himself into record books. A player scoring 70 or more points in a single NBA game is literally changing history.