NBA On This Day

2008 The Denver Nuggets set a franchise record, scoring 168 in a blowout 168-113 win over the Seattle SuperSonics. Eight Nuggets players reached double figures in what was one of the highest-scoring outputs in recent decades at the time.

2007 Kobe Bryant scored 65 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-111 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.

2022 Kyrie Irving dropped a career high 60 points in a 150-108 win over the Orlando Magic. This performance set a new Nets franchise record for points in a game (at the time)

2025 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander dropped 48 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 steals in a win over the Detroit Pistons.

2022 Steph Curry had 47 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists in a win over the Washington Wizards. He shot 16-25 FG (64%)

2022 Trae Young had 46 points, 6 rebounds, 12 assists in a win over the Portland Trail Blazers.

2022 Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves dropped a career high with 60 points in a 149-139 win over the San Antonio Spurs.

14th March 1965 The Boston Celtics became the first NBA team to reach 61 wins in a season, defeating the San Francisco Warriors 106-98. Bill Russell led with 40 rebounds and 20 points in that dominant campaign (they finished 62-18 and won the championship).

March 14th 1988 Basketball legend Steph Curry was born.

March 12th 1985: Boston Celtics Larry Bird scored a career-high and franchise-record 60 points in a 126-115 win over the Atlanta Hawks in New Orleans. This remains one of the most iconic individual performances in Celtics history (later tied by Jayson Tatum in 2021).

March 12th 1966 Chicago Blackhawks star Bobby Hull scored his 51st goal of the NHL season, setting a new league record for most goals in a single season.

March 12th 2023 Golfer Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, becoming only the third player (after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods) to simultaneously hold the Masters and Players titles.

March 11th 2020 The NBA suspended the 2019-20 season indefinitely after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. Games were underway or about to tip off when the announcement came, marking the start of a historic pause due to the pandemic.

March 11th 2011 A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, Japan, triggering a tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Nearly 20,000 people were killed or went missing, and it became the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

March 8th 1971 “Fight of the Century,” Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali by unanimous decision over 15 rounds at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This ended Ali’s 31-fight winning streak and saw Frazier retain the heavyweight title.

March 6th 2019 LeBron James surpassed Michael Jordan for 4th place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list with his 32,293rd point

March 6th 1985 Mike Tyson made his professional boxing debut, knocking out Hector Mercedes in the first round

March 5th 1996 The Dallas Mavericks set a then NBA record by attempting 49 three pointers in a 127-117 victory over the New Jersey Nets,

March 5th 2023 Iowa’s Caitlin Clark records an impressive triple double (30 points, 17 assists, 10 rebounds) in the Big Ten tournament final against Ohio State.

March 4th 1962 NBA superstar Wilt Chamberlain scored 58 points against the New York Knicks, marking his fifth straight 50-point game and setting a season scoring record of 3,921 points.