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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 FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleveland 126 32 34 31 29 Mitchell 43 Mobley 13 Strus 7 Indiana 104 32 13 34 25 Mathurin 23 Nesmith 7 McConnell 7 Oklahoma City 104 28 28 27 19 2 Jal. Williams 32 Holmgren 16 Gilgeous-Alexander 7 Denver 113 22 29 29 22 11 Murray 27 Jokic 16 Murray 8 GAMES OF THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Golden State 93 15 24 26 28 Kuminga 18 Butler 7 Podziemski 6 Minnesota 117 29 27 29 32 Randle 24 A. Edwards/Gobert 9 Randle 11 GAMES OF WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York 91 13 28 20 30 Hart 23 Towns 17 Brunson 7 Boston 90 24 26 23 17 Brown/White 20 Tatum 14 Holiday/Tatum/White 5 Denver 106 21 35 20 30 Westbrook 19 Jokic 8 Jokic 6 Oklahoma City 149 45 42 37 25 Gilgeous-Alexander 34 Holmgren 11 Gilgeous-Alexander 8 GAMES OF TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indiana 120 15 35 34 36 Nesmith/Turner 23 Haliburton 9 Nembhard 13 Cleveland 119 32 29 37 21 Mitchell 48 Allen 12 Mitchell 9 Golden State 99 18 26 36 19 Hield 24 Butler 11 Butler 8 Minnesota 88 20 11 29 28 A. Edwards 23 A. Edwards 14 Randle 6 GAMES OF MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York 108 25 20 30 25 8 Anunoby/Brunson 29 Towns 13 Bridges 7 Boston 105 26 35 23 16 5 Brown/Tatum 23 Tatum 16 Tatum 6 Denver 121 26 24 35 36 Jokic 42 Jokic 22 Jokic/Murray 6 Oklahoma City 119 27 33 30 29 Gilgeous-Alexander 33 Gilgeous-Alexander 10 Gilgeous-Alexander 8 GAMES OF SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Golden State 103 23 28 19 33 Hield 33 Curry 10 Butler/Curry 7 Houston 89 19 20 23 27 Thompson 24 Sengun 14 Sengun 5 Indiana 121 36 28 28 29 Nembhard 23 Turner 11 Haliburton 13 Cleveland 112 25 33 32 22 Mitchell 33 Mobley 10 Jerome 8ABOUT 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.