Carmelo ties Gervin's record for points in one quarter

[Anti.Hero]

This is a direct attack on the Spurs by going after Gervin. The team better remember this act of defiance when the first round rolls around.

[homer]

No. He was padding his stats to win a scoring le. Carmelo was scoring to help his team win a game.

Agreed, about Gervin going for the le, but CA was padding his stats too, he's never been about team. CA has always been about himself, he's been trying to prove he's better than LBJ since college. Good luck with that. He wasn't specifically going for that record, but he was certainly trying to get his name in print.
No one can take away from his great performance, it is what it is, but you can't honestly believe that it was better than the Icemans'. George wasn't being greedy either,he was leading the race the entire year and deserved the scoring le. He got 63 and didn't even play the 4th quarter.You're probably too young to remember that game, but I was sitting at home listening to that game on the radio and ocasionally jumping out of my chair. It was one of the greatest games ever, even though we lost.

[dirk4mvp]

Agreed, about Gervin going for the le, but CA was padding his stats too, he's never been about team. CA has always been about himself, he's been trying to prove he's better than LBJ since college. Good luck with that. He wasn't specifically going for that record, but he was certainly trying to get his name in print.
No one can take away from his great performance, it is what it is, but you can't honestly believe that it was better than the Icemans'. George wasn't being greedy either,he was leading the race the entire year and deserved the scoring le. He got 63 and didn't even play the 4th quarter.You're probably too young to remember that game, but I was sitting at home listening to that game on the radio and ocasionally jumping out of my chair. It was one of the greatest games ever, even though we lost.

Melo wasn't trying to stat pad. In the interview, he said Chauncey told him to keep shooting. Who could blame him, he was in the zone. And there's probably not even a handful in the league that has as good of an all around offensive game than Melo. It may have came against a subpar team, but this year looks like it's gonna be a dogfight to end....again, so Im sure anyone who roots for the Nuggets is pleased with Melo's effort.

And yeah, I'm too young to have seen Gervin play. Would've loved to see some sweet ass finger rolls though.

[spurs50_]

Don't be surprised when one of the two divas,kobe or james, break this record in the near future.

[MoSpur]

Did anyone watch the interview Don Harris had with the Iceman? What a joke! Not Ice. Don. He said he remember's listening to WOAI on his radio when he was a littl kid and remember's that game specifically. LOL.

[de Soto]

Impressive for a potsmoking slacker. He'll collapse in playoffs, though.

[duncan228]

Gervin, Thompson recall high-scoring feats of their own
By Chris Tomasson, Rocky Mountain News

Nearly as fast as Carmelo Anthony was scoring Wednesday night, the news was traveling to San Antonio.

George Gervin, the Hall of Famer and now a Spurs community-relations official, was out and about. The phone rang and it was Gervin's son, George Gervin Jr., with word that dad's NBA mark had been tied.

"He told me Carmelo Anthony had just tied your record of 33 points in a quarter," Gervin said. "He must have had Casper the Friendly Ghost guarding him just like I had Casper the Friendly Ghost guarding me."

The Nuggets forward put up 33 of his 45 points in the third quarter against Minnesota to tie the mark the Spurs guard set in the second quarter on April 9, 1978, at New Orleans.

How old was the record Gervin broke?

About six hours.

"That's the shortest record ever," said former Nuggets guard and Hall of Famer David Thompson, who had set the mark with 32 points in the first quarter at Detroit on the afternoon of April 9, 1978, only to have Gervin break it that night.

Anthony's showing brought back memories of the epic scoring duel between Gervin and Thompson on that final day of the regular season. Thompson finished with 73 points, but Gervin came back with 63 to win the closest race ever, with a 27.22 average to Thompson's 27.15.

"I was out and got back and was watching the fourth quarter," Thompson said from his Charlotte, N.C., home about Anthony breaking his record. "The announcers were saying then Carmelo had 42 points, and they said he had 33 in the third quarter. . . . But you would have thought he would have had more for the game. I was surprised."

So was Gervin, but for another reason.

"I didn't expect it'd be Carmelo (tying the mark)," Gervin said. "I thought it would be Kobe (Bryant) or Dwyane Wade or LeBron (James). But Carmelo put the ball in the hole. That's a pretty hard feat. Records are made to be broken."

Or at least tied.

Gervin plans to congratulate Anthony at February's All-Star Game in Phoenix.

Thompson also plans to laud Anthony in Phoenix. Of course, there might be some bantering over which of these players had the hottest quarter.

Anthony shot 12-of-15, including 4-of-5 from three-point range. Thompson was 13-of-14, with the three-pointer not yet in the NBA.

"About eight or nine of them were jumpers," Thompson said. "The only shot I missed was a dunk. Ben Poquette got a hand on it, and it rolled out. . . . But Melo was pretty awesome. I really like Carmelo. He's one of my favorite players."

While Thompson claimed he only focused on trying to win the scoring crown after his phenomenal first quarter, Gervin doesn't deny that was his goal from the start.

Then-San Antonio coach Doug Moe, now a Nuggets consultant, drew up every play for Gervin. Nuggets coach George Karl, who was then a Spurs assistant but on the road that night scouting, said Moe was "yelling at players who took shots away from Gervin."

"I was real hot," Gervin said of his second quarter, which gave him 53 points at halftime and allowed him to take most of the second half off - the scoring le won. "And we didn't have the three-ball then. . . . I'm going to congratulate Carmelo, but I'll tell him I got another record in scoring 63 points in just 33 minutes."

Anthony got 33, too. And he's proud of it.

Quarter kings

The top scoring performances in NBA history for one quarter.

Total Player Team Points Quarter Date Opponent points


Carmelo Anthony Denver 33 Third Dec. 10, 2008 Minnesota 45

George Gervin San Antonio 33 Second April 9, 1978 New Orleans 63

David Thompson Denver 32 First April 9, 1978 Detroit 73

Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia 31 Fourth March 2, 1962 New York 100

[ShoogarBear]

Anything that gets Gervin and Thompson back in the news for a while is cool with me.

[wildbill2u]

I was at Ice's retirement dinner with a girlfriend who was one of the Baseline
Bums One of the speakers was Paul Griffen, a 6' 9" F for the Spurs who was on the Jazz team when Ice got his 63 points.

Griffen was really funny as he recalled the game and in particular their efforts to stop Ice, doubling and tripling on him since they didn't want him to set a record on them.

He said that Ice has a funny little habit whenever he went down the lane for his famous finger roll and knew he had beat his man. Ice would say "uh-huh" and give a little high pitched chuckle or giggle. They heard it a lot that night Griffen said he still has nightmares about trying to help guard Ice in that game and hearing that "uh huh, giggle."

There really weren't many people at his retirement dinner which I thought was a disgrace and a shame. There should have been hundreds, thousands for all the pleasure Ice brought to us over the years--but the Spurs F.O. blew it and didn't promo it very well. But it made it pretty easy to get Ice to autograph the program.

[SenorSpur]

I've watched Ice in several interviews since then, when he's discussed that feat on the last day of the 1978 regular season. He's on record as saying the proudest moment for him, wasn't really the record. Rather it was the fact that his teammates and coaches WANTED him to go out and get it.

I'm biased, but Ice's feat is still taller.