By shooting 50 percent or better in his sixth straight game with 35 or more points, DeMar DeRozan tied a 60-year NBA record set by Wilt Chamberlain.
DeRozan, who posted his career-best seventh straight 30-point game, goes for the record on Wednesday night against the Sacramento Kings.
After scoring 13 points in the first 4 minutes of the fourth and eventually sinking his first eight shots, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich started sending double-teams at DeRozan on every touch. So all DeRozan did was record a hockey assist on a big Derrick Jones Jr. basket and two of his seven assists on a Nikola Vucevic layup and Coby White dagger 3-pointer.
“When they started trapping him, he recognized it early. And he got the ball out. He didn’t try to dribble through the double team or do things that were going to put him in a situation to be turning the ball over. And I think that speaks even more to his greatness. The fact that, ‘OK, I’m on this incredible roll. Instead of trying to take on two guys, it’s like, OK, someone else is open. Let me find the open man.
DeRozan now has the third-longest streak of 35-point games in franchise history behind two longer ones from Michael Jordan. But Jordan didn’t shoot 50 percent or better in every game of his streak like DeRozan has.
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