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While the NBA world remains absolutely flummoxed after Bam Adebayo’s 83-point inferno, we’re on the verge of another historic feat that melts the brain. On the eve of Halloween in 2024, the San Antonio Spurs did something that no team has been able to accomplish since. They “held” Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to under 20 points.
I deliberately put held in quotation marks because the Spurs were getting beat so badly in that game that SGA barely needed to play in the fourth quarter. He finished with 18 points.
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One hundred and twenty-six games later, Gilgeous-Alexander has a chance to pass Wilt Chamberlain for the most consecutive games with at least 20 points, a record that has stood for over half a century.
It’s a streak that has gone on for so long it began before Cooper Flagg had ever played a game at Duke.
To put Gilgeous-Alexander’s streak and his MVP candidacy into proper perspective, here are seven ways to better understand how Gilgeous-Alexander is wrecking the record books.
(Amy Monks/Yahoo Sports Illustration)
1. SGA’s streak is longer than the next two longest current active streaks combined: Kawhi Leonard and Joel Embiid. Actually it’s longer than the next ELEVEN highest streaks combined.
Kawhi Leonard has delivered a metronome-like scoring streak for the Clippers this season. From Nov. 28 to now, he has put up 20-plus points in 43 straight games. It’s incredible. Joel Embiid has strung together 24 straight games of his own with at least 20 points. Impressive! Tyrese Maxey has mounted 13 such games in a row. Remarkable.
Stack them all together and those superstars still don’t topple SGA’s current mark. Actually, the next 11 highest streaks — Leonard (43), Embiid (24), Maxey (13), Luka Dončić (11), Bam Adebayo (7), Trey Murphy III (5), Pascal Siakam (5), Victor Wembanyama (4), Devin Booker (4), Stephen Curry (4) and Jerami Grant (4) — have a combined 124 straight games with 20-plus points, according to Stathead.com tracking. It’s not just that SGA’s streak is better than everyone else’s, it’s that none of them can even sniff what SGA is doing right…
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/the-craziest-stats-behind-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-20-point-streak-175845817.html
Author : Tom Haberstroh
Publish date : 2026-03-12 17:58:00
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