Damian Lillard is quietly becoming one of the greatest scorers in NBA history
You likely know by now that Damian Lillard dropped 71 points on the Houston Rockets on Sunday night. He did it in just 39 minutes with a total shot distance of 420 feet, both unparalleled feats in NBA history -- or in the case of the latter, since the start of the shot-location tracking era (1996-97). If you're interested in more of the crazy numbers to come out of Lillard's performance, check out our Sam Quinn's piece , which notes, among other statistical items, that Lillard is just the second player in History , joining Kobe Bryant, to put up two 60-point Game s in two separate seasons (2022-23, 2019-20), which I can't totally wrap my head around. Have you any idea how hard it is to score 60 points in an NBA game? LeBron James, now officially the single greatest scorer in history, has only done it one time in his career. Lillard has done it twice just this season and five times total. Speakin...