Just a few days ago I posted the best game of Darius’s NBA career; a 47-point outburst at the Pepsi Center (Denver for you n00bs). I hope you enjoyed watching that as much as I do–it’s a personal favorite–because I’m back with his third-best effort! If I’ve got any regular readers who also happen to be hardcore Blazer fans… sorry to keep bringing you back to this era. Now, I’ve watched a whole lot of guys drop 30 points… it happens all the time. Hell, according to Wikipedia Wilt once did it 65 times in a row. As ridiculously dominant and ahead of his time as Chamberlain was, I doubt that even he ever dropped 10 Hamiltons as casually as D-Miles did on the 31st of March, 2004…
Amazing. At no point in the video does it look like he’s even trying. Probably because he wasn’t! Yeah, I hear you. All jokes aside, nobody drops 31 in an NBA game without trying. I think Darius was just so fluid in the way he moved… it created an incredible appearance of ease. Take note of the coast-to-coast drive and finger-roll finish at the 3:57 mark. Talk about smooth… that sh!t was butter! Not my favorite play in the video, though. The crossover and dunk at 56 seconds? That was… excuse me as I search my vocabulary… astounding? Nah. I can’t even come up with a word that does the play justice.
I love how you can tell Tommy was gettin’ a little heated ’cause Darius was stylin’ on his Celtic pride. [insert pimp emoticon]
Did you know that Darius Miles has the 2nd most points in a game for a player off the bench with 47 points and 12 rebounds against the Nuggets in 2005? Crazy…
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200504190DEN.html
Wow, I just posted that game a couple days ago and didn’t even realize that he’d come off the bench! Who’s number one? I know JR Smith had 40-something off the bench against Chicago a few years ago.
Nick Anderson with 50.
… I suppose you may like to have the link to that game. http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199304230NJN.html