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NBA Game Scores
InsideHoops.comDaily NBA game scores for the NBA regular season, plus player stat leaders in points, rebounds and assists for each game. Also read NBA game recaps. And to view highlights with your own eyes, watch NBA videos:
2024 DAILY GAME SCORES
THE 2024 NBA FINALS GAMES OF MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2024 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dallas 88 18 28 21 21 Doncic 28 Doncic 12 Irving 9 Boston 106 28 39 19 20 Tatum 31 Holiday 11 Tatum 11 GAMES OF FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2024 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boston 84 21 14 25 24 Tatum 15 Tatum 5 Horford 4 Dallas 122 34 27 31 30 Doncic 29 Lively 12 Irving 6 GAMES OF WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boston 106 30 20 35 21 Tatum 31 Brown 8 Brown 8 Dallas 99 31 20 19 29 Irving 35 Lively 13 Doncic 6 GAMES OF SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2024 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dallas 98 28 23 23 24 Doncic 32 Doncic 11 Doncic 11 Boston 105 25 29 29 22 Holiday 26 Holiday 11 Tatum 12 GAMES OF THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2024 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dallas 89 20 22 24 23 Doncic 30 Doncic 10 Irving 2 Boston 107 37 26 23 21 Brown 22 Tatum 11 Holiday/Tatum/White 5ABOUT NBA SCORES: HOW TO READ NBA GAME SCORES
What you already know is, NBA games have four quarters, and if a game is tied at the end of the fourth quarter than the games goes into an overtime (OT) period. If a game is tied at the end of that first overtime, it goes into a second overtime (2OT), also known as double overtime. And you guessed it, next would come a third overtime (3OT), also known as triple overtime. On and on it goes. In general, the average NBA game ends in regulation -- which means it ended after four quarters. But plenty of contests do reach overtime. There's nothing particularly shocking about double overtime, either. It happens. Triple-overtime is more rare of course. And beyond that, I'd have to look up when the last quadruple overtime game was, because they don't happen too often.
As for NBA game scores, one of the first lessons you learn watching a lot of pro basketball is that when a team takes an early lead that sounds sizable, it doesn't mean the game is over. Don't stop watching a game because one team takes a 15-4 lead in the first quarter, for example. Assuming the team that is losing isn't some sort of historically bad squad, if they're even half decent it's quite possible that you'll blink your eyes and a few minutes later the score will be a more respectable 19-12 or something like that. And perhaps tied or at least close to tied by the end of the first quarter. Basketball is a game of runs. It's quite common for one team to hit a few shots in a row while the other team misses most or all of theirs. There are lots of 4-0, 6-0 or 8-2 runs in NBA basketball games. An 8-2 run is nice, but not anything shocking. A 10-2 or 10-0 run deserves more attention. Once we get to a 15-0 run or 15-2 run or something like that, that's the sort of run that would cause me to sit up and pay attention. But a 6-0 run here or an 8-2 run there, it's all par for the course.
As for reading NBA scoreboards and looking at the stat leaders, again, NBA basketball is a team game. Every team needs a leader, and actual good teams needs multiple leaders, and the guys who score get noticed first when looking at NBA box scores, followed by rebounding and assist leaders, and if you go deeper then of course blocks and steals are of interest. But it'll always be a team game, and if a team wins by a big scoring margin and somebody on the squad scored 30 on a good shooting percentage, rest assured that the rest of the team also did their part, on both offense and defense.
Still, all of that aside, an NBA player scoring 20 or more points is pretty standard in almost every game. A player scoring 30 also happens quite often, but not necessarily every game. A player scoring 40 or more happens less often and is pretty impressive. But a player scoring 50 will draw national attention. A player scoring 60 is putting himself into record books. A player scoring 70 or more points in a single NBA game is literally changing history.