Beijing time on January 4th! Today's NBA regular season Blazers home game against the Hawks is over. The Blazers beat the Hawks 132-128. In this game, Blazers player Anfenni Simmons in the 3rd quarter, Blazers player Anfenni Simmons played 12 minutes, 6 of 8 shots, 18 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist.
At the end of the game, Simmons played 38 minutes, shooting 13-of-21, including 9-of-16 three-pointers and 8-of-8 from the free throw line, with 43 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists. His 43 points and seven assists in this game all set a new season high, with the previous record of 26 points (against the Timberwolves on December 13, 2021) and five assists (against the Pistons on December 1, 2021), and nine three-pointers were also career highs. With this, Anfenni Simmons became the youngest player in Blazers history to score 40+ in a single game (22 years old)
This game can be said to be a confrontation between Simmons and Trae Young, and the Hawks' Trae Young also scored a career high. In the first quarter, Hawks player Trae Young played 12 minutes and scored 16 points and 5 assists on 6-of-9 shooting. In the first half, Hawks player Trae Young scored 9-of-14 shooting in 17 minutes and scored 29 points and 9 assists; in the 3rd quarter, Hawks player Trae Young played 12 minutes and scored 12 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists on 4-of-7 shooting.
At the end of the game, Trae Young played 37 minutes, shooting 17-of-26, including 7-of-12 three-pointers, 15-of-15 from the free throw line, and 56 points, 4 rebounds and 14 assists. Excluding this game, Trae Young averaged 34.1 minutes per game in the regular season, with 27.5 points, 3.9 rebounds, 9.4 assists and 1 steal and 0.1 blocks. Prior to this, Trae Young's career-high scoring was 50 points.
Trae Young became the sixth player to have 55 points and 10 assists in a single game after Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, Tony Parker, Russell Westbrook and James Harden (3 times).