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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 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York 105 34 26 25 20 Towns 25 Towns 13 Anunoby/Wright 6 Cleveland 124 28 25 38 33 Mitchell 27 Allen 8 Garland 6 Charlotte 105 25 20 28 32 Bridges 18 M. Williams 12 Bridges 5 Indiana 119 32 21 34 32 Haliburton 22 Turner 9 Haliburton 10 Sacramento 111 26 26 25 34 DeRozan 29 Sabonis 16 DeRozan 8 Washington 116 26 29 36 25 Poole 23 Champagnie 11 Carrington 7 Miami 124 29 30 32 33 Herro 25 Herro 6 Herro 9 Boston 103 22 23 36 22 Brown 24 Brown 9 Tatum 7 Utah 105 26 20 29 30 Collier 22 Kessler 12 Collier 10 Houston 143 33 37 32 41 Ja. Green 22 Sengun/Smith Jr. 14 Sengun 9 Detroit 103 27 32 22 22 Hardaway Jr. 23 Duren 13 Schroder 7 Oklahoma City 119 41 24 32 22 Gilgeous-Alexander 33 Holmgren 11 Hartenstein 6 Atlanta 118 34 38 24 22 Young 25 Okongwu 14 Young 12 Dallas 120 32 35 34 19 Davis 34 Davis 15 Dinwiddie 10 San Antonio 113 33 33 22 25 Barnes 20 Castle 15 Castle 9 Denver 106 21 33 31 21 Westbrook 30 Jordan 17 Pickett 10ABOUT 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.