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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
CONFERENCE FINALS GAMES OF SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York 108 24 30 23 31 Anunoby 24 Towns 14 Brunson 7 Indiana 125 25 33 34 33 Siakam 31 Haliburton/Toppin 6 Haliburton 13 GAMES OF THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indiana 94 23 22 28 21 Mathurin 23 Mathurin 9 Haliburton 6 New York 111 27 29 34 21 Brunson 32 Towns 13 Bridges/Brunson 5 GAMES OF TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York 121 35 29 27 30 Brunson 31 Towns 12 Brunson 5 Indiana 130 43 26 33 28 Haliburton 32 Haliburton 12 Haliburton 15 GAMES OF MONDAY, MAY 26, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oklahoma City 128 37 28 25 38 Gilgeous-Alexander 40 Gilgeous-Alexander 9 Gilgeous-Alexander 10 Minnesota 126 30 27 28 41 Alexander-Walker 23 Gobert 9 A. Edwards/Alexander-Walker 6 GAMES OF SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York 106 26 19 25 36 Towns 24 Towns 15 Hart 4 Indiana 100 30 28 22 20 Haliburton 20 Nesmith 7 Haliburton 7 GAMES OF SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oklahoma City 101 14 27 29 31 Gilgeous-Alexander/Mitchell 14Hartenstein 6 Gilgeous-Alexander 6 Minnesota 143 34 38 35 36 A. Edwards 30 A. Edwards 9 A. Edwards 6 GAMES OF FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indiana 114 24 25 32 33 Siakam 39 Haliburton 8 Haliburton 11 New York 109 26 26 29 28 Brunson 36 Robinson 9 Brunson 11 GAMES OF THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minnesota 103 25 25 21 32 A. Edwards 32 Gobert/A. Edwards 9 A. Edwards 6 Oklahoma City 118 29 29 35 25 Gilgeous-Alexander 38 Jal. Williams 10 Gilgeous-Alexander 8 GAMES OF WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indiana 138 34 28 25 38 13 Haliburton 31 Toppin 10 Haliburton 11 New York 135 36 33 21 35 10 Brunson 43 Hart 13 Hart 7 GAMES OF TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minnesota 88 23 25 18 22 Randle 28 A. Edwards 9 Reid 4 Oklahoma City 114 20 24 32 38 Gilgeous-Alexander 31 Jal. Williams/Joe 8 Gilgeous-Alexander 9ABOUT 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.