Klay Thompson became only the second NBA player in history to score 10 consecutive three-pointers without missing and to score the first 10 attempts from beyond the arc in a game.
On Monday night, the 28-year-old hit his first 10 three-pointers as he finished with 44 points on 17-of-20 from the field and 10-of-11 from three-point territory in just 27 minutes during a routine road win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
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The four-time All-Star erupted in the third quarter, going 8-of-9 from the field as the Golden State Warriors turned a 10-point lead at halftime into a 30-point gap by the end of the penultimate period.
The defending NBA champions ran out 130-111 winners in Los Angeles, improving their record for the season to 33-14 and strengthening their gap on the first spot in the Western Conference standings.
Thompson’s only miss from beyond the arc came shortly before the end of the third quarter, when he exited the game for the final time with the Warriors comfortably ahead.
“That was hard. That’s hard to do,” he said, as per 95.7 The Game. “I thought I had 11 for a second, but that’s basketball.”
According to data from Elias Sports Bureau, Chandler Parsons was the last player to hit 10 threes in a game, doing so as the Houston Rockets lost 88-87 to the Memphis Grizzlies in January 2014. To find the last player to score his first 10 attempts from beyond the arc, one has to go back all the way to April 2011, when Ty Lawson went 10-of-11 from three points as the Denver Nuggets beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 130-106.
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