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):
24 of Love’s points came thanks to eight three-pointers!
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):
UPDATE II: Love “only” finished with 40 points.