In the first quarter of tonight’s Trail Blazers-Cavaliers game in Cleveland, the Blazers scored 31 points, a pretty high total. And they were outscored by one player on the Cavs!
Cavs forward Kevin Love dropped a ridiculous 34 points (!!!!), good for an NBA record in the first quarter. It’s the second-best quarter in NBA history (Golden State’s Klay Thompson scored 37 in a quarter last season):
Kevin Love falls just short of Klay Thompson's NBA record for points in a quarter pic.twitter.com/0zwt5w1otm
— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) November 24, 2016
24 of Love’s points came thanks to eight three-pointers!
Count along as Kevin Love hits EIGHT three-pointers in the 1st quarter 👀 pic.twitter.com/RdnGT537Av
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 24, 2016
This is what shattering the franchise record for quarter points & quarter triples looks like. #DefendtheLand
(📸 via @ESPNNBA) pic.twitter.com/D1uyQyAf4f— Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) November 24, 2016
Here was the shot that got Love to the NBA-record 34 points:
This is NBA Jam type stuff, in real life. It will be interesting to see how many points Love finishes with tonight, but my calculator tells me he’d need to score “just” 26 points over the remaining three quarters to get 60, for example.
UPDATE: After scoring 34 points in the first quarter, Kevin Love scored zero in the second quarter. What a loser!
But, the Cavs set an NBA record with 16 three-pointers in a half (with eight of these coming thanks to Love, of course):
The @cavs made 16 threes in the 1st half, the most 3-pt FG in a half in NBA history
Prev record was 15 by Warriors (twice, both last year) pic.twitter.com/4MOs5nLPyf
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) November 24, 2016
UPDATE II: Love “only” finished with 40 points.
