Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell scored a stunning 71 points — matching the eighth-most ever in an NBA game — as the Cavaliers erased a 21-point deficit to beat the Chicago Bulls 145-134 in overtime on Monday, Jan. 2.
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Wilt Chamberlain holds the single-game scoring record with 100 for Philadelphia against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962.He’s the first Cavs player to have a 60-point regular-season game — and he handed out 11 assists and grabbed eight rebounds to boot. “We were treated tonight to one of the greatest performances in the history of the NBA,” Cavaliers coach JB Bickerstaff said.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James opened the new year in style, scoring 43 points in a 121-115 victory over the Charlotte Hornets. James, who had celebrated his 38th birthday on Friday with a 47-point outburst in the Lakers’ victory in Atlanta, followed up with another stellar night in Charlotte.Before then he thrilled fans in Charlotte with a pair of alley-oop dunks — including a reverse jam off a pass from Dennis Schroeder.
Thomas Bryant scored 18 points and pulled down 15 rebounds and Austin Reaves and Schroder scored 15 point apiece as the Lakers wrapped up a five-game road trip with a second straight victory after dropping the first three.
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