George Gervin

The four-time scoring champion floats through triple overtime at HemisFair Arena, his signature finger roll and silky jumper producing 50 points on 67.7 percent shooting in a 171-166 Spurs victory over Milwaukee. The Ice Man drilled 21 of his 31 shots across 56 minutes, never breaking a sweat as he torched the Bucks with every weapon in his arsenal, butter-smooth jumpers, ambidextrous finger rolls, hook shots, and aerial acrobatics that left defenders grasping at air. The legendary performance helped establish the second-highest scoring game in NBA history at 337 points, a total that was not surpassed for another 40 years. The Hall of Famer who, hours after David Thompson scored 73 points on the final day of the 1978 regular season, scored 63 points of his own to capture a scoring title by 0.07 points, exemplifies the effortless cool that made Jerry West declare him “the one player I would pay to see.”

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