The Brooklyn Nets just scored a whopping 91 points on the Golden State Warriors in the first half of their game. Granted, the Dubs were without Stephen Curry as he’s out with a left shoulder injury, Klay Thompson, and JaMychal Green. However, the Nets were missing Kyrie Irving as well.
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The game ended with the Nets scoring a ‘modest’ 143 points and the Warriors getting up 113. Many have questioned whether or not the Nets just broke the record for the most points scored in a half by an NBA team.
No, the Brooklyn Nets did not break the record for the most points scored by a team in an NBA half. Their 91 points, surprisingly, pale in comparison to what the actual record is. Though, it is the most scored by a team in a half for this season so they can hold their head high on this milestone.
The Nets-Warriors score at halftime 😳😳😳 pic.twitter.com/MsGn39uGHH
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) December 22, 2022
What are the most points scored in an NBA half by a team?
The most points a team has scored in an NBA half was when the Phoenix Suns scored an unprecedented 107 points on the Denver Nuggets in a game on November 10th, 1990. The Suns finished the game off with 173 points to the Nuggets’ 143 points.
5 players on the Suns scored over 20 points with Cedric Ceballos scoring 32 points off the bench. What makes this feat every more astonishing is the fact that Cedric’s 32, as mentioned earlier, was the highest mark reached by a player in Phoenix. Orlando Woolridge scored 40 for the Denver Nuggets in the 30-point loss.
In an era where 3-pointers were taken at an extremely low rate, the Suns cashed in 0 threes made on merely 2 attempts. They drained 67 shots from within the arc on 104 attempts to reach their 173 mark.
For those wondering, 173 isn’t the highest numbers of points by a team in a game as that record is held by the Detroit Pistons who scored 186 on, funnily enough, the Denver Nuggets, who scored 184 of their own during a game on December 3rd, 1983.
