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Monday, March 27, 2017
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Twenty-year-old Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns celebrates after hitting a historic franchise-best 70 points against the Boston Celtics during their NBA clash on Friday. USA TODAY
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BOSTON – Devin Booker is only 20 and already has a place alongside Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant and just a few others in NBA history.
Booker scored 70 points , becoming the sixth player to reach that total, but the Boston Celtics outlasted the Phoenix Suns 130-120 on Friday night.
David Thompson, David Robinson and Elgin Baylor are the NBA’s only other 70-point scorers. Baylor also held the previous record against the Celtics with 64 points in Minneapolis for the Lakers on Nov. 8, 1959.
”This doesn’t happen very often especially against a really good defensive team like the Boston Celtics,” Booker said. ”It’s a zone. It’s kind of hard to explain. I’ve been in those zones before, but never to this extent.”
Isaiah Thomas scored 34 points for Boston, which won its third straight and avenged its buzzer-beater loss in Phoenix earlier this month.
Coach Earl Watson even used a pair of timeouts in the closing minutes to get him extra touches. As Booker’s point total climbed, he even began to get cheers from some Boston fans. The entire display – in particular Phoenix’s attempts to prolong the game – tweaked some Celtics players.
‘It was weird what they were doing,” Thomas said. ”I’ve never seen anything like that. It is what it is. … But I mean it was obvious what they were trying to do. They were trying to get him the most points possible. Hats off to him. He played a hell of a game.”(AP)
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