We've never seen a player get 59 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists and seven blocks before.
Joel Embiid's Dominance
It also came down to a highly efficient shoot: 19-28 from the field, 20-24 from the free-throw line. (We'll do 1-5 layups from the 3-point line.)
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Embiid scored 26 of the Sixers' 27 points in the fourth quarter. He was also +25 on the floor, scoring only seven points in one game.
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Hollinger's idea is to sum up an NBA player's performance in a game, including all box score factors, in roughly the same terms as points:
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Embiid's game score was 54.4 tonight. How does it rank in terms of greatest performances of all time?
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Note that we can generally only calculate game scores from 1983, since that's when they began to separate offensive and defensive rebounds in box scores.
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see her! This is the best game by any NBA player in the last five years. It was the best game involving the Utah Jazz since Karl Malone's 61-point in 1990
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Kelly Olynyk was in foul trouble, Lauri Markkanen, a high foul player in Walker Kessler, the doubling guard were both short and then ambiguous arms
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I think going too deep into that discussion might obscure how amazing Embiid was tonight, making all kinds of shots. He very skillfully portrayed those dishonesty,
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In other words, we saw history. And in this season of good vibes and low expectations, I think it's good to be the first to appreciate it.