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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 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philadelphia 139 34 38 31 25 11 Embiid/Maxey 34 Embiid 10 Maxey 12 Memphis 136 40 32 28 28 8 Morant 40 Coward 16 Spencer 5 Boston 129 31 28 40 30 White 27 White 7 Brown 10 Utah 119 38 26 32 23 George 37 Markkanen 9 Collier/Nurkic 8 Detroit 128 36 34 26 32 Cunningham 27 Duren 8 Cunningham 11 L.A. Lakers 106 30 35 23 18 Doncic 30 Vanderbilt 8 Doncic 11 Sacramento 90 20 20 31 19 Clifford 18 Raynaud 12 Schroder/Westbrook 4 L.A. Clippers 131 34 39 27 31 Leonard 33 Dunn/Konan Niederhauser/Lopez/Sanders 6Harden/Leonard 5 GAMES OF MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Milwaukee 123 25 38 32 28 Portis Jr. 25 Turner 6 Porter Jr. 11 Charlotte 113 26 40 23 24 Miller 31 Salaun 11 Sexton 8 Phoenix 115 22 39 26 28 Brooks 26 Ighodaro 10 Gillespie 6 Washington 101 23 31 25 22 T. Johnson 24 Bagley/Coulibaly 7 Carrington/McCollum/Sarr 4 Golden State 120 28 31 30 31 Curry 27 Melton 8 Curry 5 Brooklyn 107 30 27 28 22 Porter Jr. 27 Claxton/Porter Jr. 9 Porter Jr. 5 Denver 123 29 34 36 24 Jokic 21 Murray 6 Murray 11 Miami 147 41 22 47 37 Powell 25 Adebayo 10 Jaquez Jr. 11 Orlando 106 29 36 29 12 Black 27 Banchero 15 Banchero 10 Toronto 107 18 36 30 23 Shead 19 Murray-Boyles 12 Quickley/Shead 5 Minnesota 136 21 34 40 41 Reid 33 Gobert 10 Randle 14 Chicago 101 23 27 28 23 Vucevic 23 Dosunmu/Huerter/Smith 6 Dosunmu 7 Indiana 119 25 23 30 41 Siakam 23 Siakam/Furphy 4 Potter 6 Houston 126 30 36 39 21 Durant 30 Smith Jr. 10 Thompson 7 New York 130 37 35 24 34 Brunson 28 Towns 12 Bridges/Brunson 10 New Orleans 125 41 34 28 22 Williamson 32 Looney/Queen 9 Bey 6 Atlanta 129 38 36 29 26 Alexander-Walker 30 Okongwu 14 Daniels 7 Oklahoma City 140 35 35 43 27 Gilgeous-Alexander 39 Holmgren 10 Jal. Williams 7 Cleveland 113 25 24 27 37 Allen 27 Allen 10 Garland 11 San Antonio 101 26 29 23 23 Wembanyama 26 Wembanyama 14 Castle 8 Dallas 122 29 34 30 29 Christie 25 Gafford 10 Flagg 8 Portland 125 42 33 22 28 Avdija 27 Clingan 11 Avdija 11ABOUT 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.