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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:
DAILY NBA GAME SCORES
GAMES OF SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brooklyn 107 24 24 33 26 Thomas 40 Porter Jr./Mann 6 Saraf 5 San Antonio 118 31 38 19 30 Wembanyama 31 Wembanyama 14 Harper 8 Boston 113 33 25 23 32 Brown 41 Pritchard 10 Brown/Pritchard 4 Detroit 119 24 36 34 25 Cunningham 25 Duren 18 Cunningham 8 Charlotte 139 31 20 44 44 Ball 38 Ball 13 Ball 13 Washington 113 30 32 26 25 McCollum 24 George 8 Carrington/George/McCollum/Sarr 5 New York 107 27 27 27 26 Brunson 37 Towns 18 Brunson 7 Miami 115 24 33 31 27 Powell 29 Adebayo 13 Mitchell 6 Milwaukee 113 31 25 28 29 G. Antetokounmpo 40 G. Antetokounmpo 14 G. Antetokounmpo 9 Cleveland 118 29 36 21 32 Mitchell 24 Allen 11 Mobley 6 Indiana 110 28 32 17 33 Siakam 33 Siakam 10 Siakam 8 Minnesota 114 28 30 28 28 Randle 31 Gobert 18 Randle 6 Toronto 129 32 34 25 38 Barnes 33 Barnes 11 Shead 8 Dallas 139 32 32 39 36 Davis 25 Davis 10 Russell 6 L.A. Lakers 127 36 26 33 32 Reaves 51 Ayton 15 Reaves 9 Sacramento 120 27 35 28 30 LaVine 32 Sabonis 14 Schroder 12 Portland 107 23 37 22 25 Avdija 23 Clingan 10 Holiday 7 L.A. Clippers 114 34 21 32 27 Leonard 30 Leonard 10 Harden 13 GAMES OF SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago 110 29 23 31 27 Giddey 21 Vucevic/Giddey 8 Jones 8 Orlando 98 30 19 31 18 Banchero 24 Carter Jr. 13 Bane 3 Charlotte 121 29 29 38 25 Ball 27 Ball 10 Ball 8 Philadelphia 125 36 25 25 39 Maxey 28 Drummond 13 Maxey 9 Oklahoma City 117 31 29 39 18 Holmgren 31 Holmgren 11 Mitchell 7 Atlanta 100 26 29 25 20 Alexander-Walker 17 Okongwu 12 Young 10 Indiana 103 21 31 32 19 Mathurin 26 Toppin 9 Dennis/Siakam 6 Memphis 128 23 37 43 25 Coward 27 Aldama/Landale 8 Morant 8 Phoenix 111 28 26 29 28 Booker 31 Dunn 7 Booker 7 Denver 133 34 37 29 33 Murray 23 Jokic 14 Jokic 15ABOUT 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.