The Starting Five

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Player of the Night: Carmelo Anthony

Melo must have slept with ice because the chill of 45 was all the way live last night. Carmelo Anthony scored an NBA record 33 points in the third quarter of Denver’s 116-105 win over the 4-17 Minnesota Timberwolves.

George Gervin scored 33 in a quarter on the last day of the 1978 season–April 9th. Gervin and David Thompson were battling for the scoring title that season and Thompson went for 32 on the same day. Melo breaks Thompson’s Denver record in the process.

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