Bucks go long for NBA record
On Sunday, the Milwaukee Bucks endured their worst 3-point effort in just over a year.
On Tuesday, they set the NBA record for 3’s in a game. Go figure.
The Bucks made a record 29 3-pointers in their 144-97 romp past the reigning Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat on Tuesday night. They shot 29 for 51 from beyond the arc, two nights after going 7 for 38 in a loss to New York.
Milwaukee used 13 players and 12 made at least one 3-pointer — the only person who didn’t get onto that list being twotime reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, in what will go down as nothing more than an interesting footnote in Bucks history. Khris Middleton had four 3’s on his way to 25 points, Jrue Holiday made six 3’s in his 24-point night and Donte DiVincenzo was 5-for-6 from deep to finish with 17 points.
Antetokounmpo had only nine points. Didn’t matter much. Everything else was stat night for Milwaukee.
The previous record for 3’s in a game was 27, set by the Houston Rockets against the Phoenix Suns on April 7, 2019.
Tyler Herro scored 23 points for the Heat. Miami’s Jimmy Butler missed the game with a sprained right ankle.
76ers 100, Raptors 93 — Joel Embiid had 29 points, 16 rebounds and one scare when he briefly left the game with an injury, leading Philadelphia past winless Toronto.
Embiid had all of Philadelphia holding its breath when the big man left with some sort of leg injury. He went down early in the third quarter and grabbed the back of his lower right leg as he stood up. Embiid, who missed Sunday’s loss against Cleveland with back stiffness, walked gingerly to the locker room.
Embiid returned a few minutes later and checked back in the game with the Sixers down 11. He sank 14 of 16 free throws — as many makes as Toronto shot (12 of 14) to keep the Sixers in this one.
Tobias Harris had 26 points and 11 rebounds to help Embiid on a night the Sixers shot only 38% from the floor.
Magic118, Thunder107— Nikola Vucevic had a season-high 28 points and 10 rebounds, and Orlando beat Oklahoma City.
Orlando, 4-0 for the first time in the franchise’s 31-season history, is one of only two remaining unbeaten teams in the NBA, along with Atlanta.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 23 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for Oklahoma City.
Dwayne Bacon went 9 of 10 from the field and scored 18 points to go with eight rebounds for Orlando,
Knicks 95, Cavaliers 86 — Julius Randle had 28 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists for his first triple-double in two years, leading New York past Cleveland.
Randle, who scored 18 in the first half as New York built a 16-point lead.
It was the power forward’s first triple-double since Nov. 19, 2018, with New Orleans.
Bulls 115, Wizards 107 — Zach LaVine scored 23 points, including nine straight in the third quarter, and Coby White added 18 to lead Chicago to its first victory of the season over winless Washington.
Russell Westbrook, who sat out Sunday’s game, had his third straight triple-double with 21 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists for Washington.
Bradley Beal scored 29 points and Davis Bertans added 20 for the Wizards.