No participant because the Nineteen Sixties had tallied 50 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists in an NBA sport. On Tuesday night time, Luka Doncic reached that complete and stored proper on going to 60 factors.

Doncic’s 60-21-10 line within the Mavericks’ 126-121 time beyond regulation victory in opposition to the New York Knicks in Dallas was the primary in NBA historical past. The different highest level totals with 20 rebounds and 10 assists all got here greater than 50 years in the past: Wilt Chamberlain’s 53-32-14 in 1968, Elgin Baylor’s 52-25-10 in 1961 and Chamberlain’s 51-29-11 in 1963.

In the twenty first century, solely DeMarcus Cousins (44-23-10) in 2018 and Nikola Jokic (40-27-10) this month had as many as 40 factors together with 20 rebounds and 10 assists.

Cut the rebound requirement to 10 from 20 and Doncic’s sport continues to be tied for the best scoring ever, alongside James Harden’s 60-10-11 sport in 2018.

Luka Doncic grew to become the primary Dallas Mavericks participant to ever rating 60 factors in a sport. Here is each single level the three-time All-NBA First-Team guard scored to attain the feat. pic.twitter.com/aRiSFOQ03V

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Doncic shot 21-for-31 on Tuesday night time. It was the primary 60-point sport in Mavericks historical past, surpassing a 53-point sport by Dirk Nowitzki in 2004. Basketball Reference gave the efficiency a “game score” of 56.3, the perfect within the league since Harden’s sport and the fifth better of the 3-point period.

Many of Doncic’s buckets got here in traditional Luka type: The 6-foot-7 participant repeatedly dealt with the ball close to the 3-point arc, then drove in for a layup or an help. His teammates made 23 baskets in complete, and Doncic assisted on 10 of them.

The Knicks led the sport by 9 factors with 42 seconds remaining within the fourth quarter, however Doncic helped lead a Mavericks comeback that compelled time beyond regulation. With 1 second to go and the Mavericks trailing by 2, he deliberately missed a free throw, bought the rebound after a number of gamers from each groups touched the ball and made the shot as time expired.

He punctuated the transfer with a spontaneous goofy dance that concerned him bouncing his arms up and down herky-jerky.

“It was just kind of lucky,” Doncic mentioned of the game-tying shot. “I’m tired as hell. I need a recovery beer.”

Doncic scored 27 of his factors off pick-and-roll performs.

“I love the pick-and-roll,” he mentioned. “I think everybody knows that. So just keep rolling the pick-and-roll.”

Wearing streets garments, New York Knicks’ Jalen Brunson, left, reacts to a name with Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic (77) and Dwight Powell (7) in the course of the third quarter of an NBA basketball sport in Dallas, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Three of the 4 50-20-10 video games in NBA historical past went to time beyond regulation, however Doncic didn’t profit enormously from the additional time: He performed a complete of 47 minutes, lower than Chamberlain and Baylor did of their video games.

It was the primary 60-point sport of the NBA season, surpassing Joel Embiid’s 59 for the Philadelphia 76ers in November. Doncic exceeded his earlier profession excessive, 50, which he had set Friday in opposition to the Houston Rockets. His 21 rebounds had been additionally a profession excessive.

The Mavericks, who misplaced within the convention finals to Golden State final season, have received 4 in a row and climbed to sixth place within the West as of Tuesday night time.

At 23 and in simply his fifth NBA season, Doncic figures to enhance. Partway by way of the season, his field-goal proportion is over .500 for the primary time, regardless of his taking pictures greater than ever earlier than, and his 33.6-point common can also be a profession excessive.

But it is going to be robust to conjure a efficiency that may prime Tuesday’s.

This article initially appeared in The New York Times.