The Suns took the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference playoffs and will face the defending NBA champion Thunder on Sunday in Game 1.

Against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, the rising NBA star had 45 points to lead the Mavericks to a 134-128 win. He is the first rookie this season to have back-to-back 40-point games. It was a historic scoring performance for Flagg, as he reached another milestone in his professional NBA career.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 25 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder began their title defense with a 119-84 rout of the Phoenix Suns in Game 1 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series on Sunday.

The Los Angeles Lakers got a big Game 1 win against the Houston Rockets, 107-98, led by Luke Kennard. The 2025-26 NBA three-point percentage leader scored a game-high 27 points. Kennard was efficient from the field,

Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points on March 2, 1962. That is an NBA record and considered one of the most unbreakable feats in all of sports. Kobe Bryant was long in second place on the single-game scoring list, as he scored 81 points on Feb. 22, 2006.

MIAMI (AP) — The Boston Celtics had a first quarter like none other in their storied history. The Celtics scored 53 points — their biggest-scoring first quarter ever — in the opening 12 minutes of their game against the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.

On this date 39 years ago, Michael Jordan accomplished something only one player had ever done before him. He became just the second player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a single season, joining the legendary Wilt Chamberlain in one of the sport’s most exclusive statistical clubs.