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Blake Griffin scored a career-high 50 points Tuesday night at Little Caesars Arena. Griffin’s Detroit Pistons beat a very good Philadelphia 76ers team 133-132 in overtime. Griffin scored the game-tying basket in overtime. Griffin scored the game-winning free throw on the and-one. Blake Griffin is good.
Wow.
Griffin became the sixth Piston in history to score at least 50 points with the last being Rip Hamilton’s 51 in 2006. Other members of the exclusive club were Jerry Stackhouse (01), Kelly Tripucka (83), Dave Bing (71) and George Yardley twice (58).
More fun with arbitrary numbers!
Griffin’s line of 50 points, 14 rebounds and six assists have only been matched or bested by nine players in NBA history. Russell Westbrook did it in 2017, James Harden in 2016, Michael Jordan three times, Bob McAdoo, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar four times, Wilt Chamberlain 12 times, Rick Barry, and Elgin Baylor five times.
That is some good company.
Here are some Tweets reacting to Blake’s performance.
Congrats @blakegriffin32 on scoring 50 tonight. Welcome to the 50 club brother ! Detroit Basketball (Mason Voice ) #holdat https://t.co/wPDKpWZQ71
— Rip Hamilton (@ripcityhamilton) October 24, 2018
Good shiiii @blakegriffin23 . I see you bruh bruh ✊
— CJ McCollum (@CJMcCollum) October 24, 2018
50-14-6 on 20/35, 5/10 from deep, game-winning And-One with 1.8 left in OT, just one turnover. Played smart and solid defense all game. What a night for Blake Griffin.
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) October 24, 2018
Bet Embiid's already getting the IG post ready even though he lost, got baptized by Blake and locked up in OT by, of all souls, Zaza. https://t.co/Bjikg3r8IB
— Brady Fredericksen (@Brady_Fred) October 24, 2018
This Pistons/ Sixers game though.. @blakegriffin23 playing out of this world!
— Jamal Crawford (@JCrossover) October 24, 2018
Career-high 50 PTS ✅
— NBA TV (@NBATV) October 24, 2018
Game-winning bucket in OT ✅
Take a bow, Blake Griffin! #DetroitBasketball pic.twitter.com/ueClqmDtI9
Would be a shame if this @blakegriffin23 dunk on @JoelEmbiid made its way around the web pic.twitter.com/VJtzUMQ1ea
— Isaac (@WorldofIsaac) October 24, 2018
And finally, seriously, enjoy this thread. And if you’re not a Twitter-er, throw an appropriate GIF in the comments.
Taking GIF submissions to send to Joel Embiid after a hard-fought game.
— Detroit Bad Boys ☠ (@detroitbadboys) October 24, 2018