Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns scored 51 points tonight in the team's victory over the Chicago Bulls, and all this without playing a single minute in the last quarter of the game.
The American guard scored 20 of the 25 shots he took in the game, and hit 6 of 7 threes.
This is not the first time Booker explodes offensively, when his most memorable game was in the 2017 season, when he scored 70 points in Phoenix's loss to the Boston Celtics, in one of the most memorable performances by a player in NBA history.
In addition, Booker is the fourth player to reach 50 points this season, joining Joel Embiid (59), Darius Garland (51) and Stephen Curry (50).
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Game for Pantheon, photo: AFP
"I'm not in the MVP race," said Booker, who last year finished fourth in the voting after leading the Suns to the best record in the league.
"I just let people say what they want. I only focus on scoring."
One of the biggest stars in the league, Kevin Durant from the Brooklyn Nets praised Boker in a tweet that became particularly viral and wrote: "Scoring 20-25 from the field is simply ridiculous."
In other tweets, Devin Booker was compared to Kobe Bryant, who the player has stated more than once is his role model.
Devin Booker tonight so far... pic.twitter.com/xBk0RKvnN3
— NBA Memes (@NBAMEmes) December 1, 2022
20-25 is fuckin ridiculous Devin Booker.
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) December 1, 2022 Were we wrong?
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