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NBA Game Scores
InsideHoops.comDaily NBA game scores for the NBA regular season, plus player stat leaders in points, rebounds and assists for each game. Also read NBA game recaps. And to view highlights with your own eyes, watch NBA videos:
DAILY NBA GAME SCORES
GAMES OF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L.A. Clippers 102 27 24 23 28 Zubac 23 Zubac 11 Dunn 6 Phoenix 115 31 17 40 27 Green 29 Williams 10 Booker/Gillespie 7 GAMES OF WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brooklyn 112 25 29 26 32 Porter Jr. 32 Porter Jr. 11 Claxton/Mann 6 Indiana 103 18 41 24 20 Siakam 23 Robinson-Earl 15 Siakam 10 Philadelphia 121 27 40 20 34 Grimes/Maxey 27 Drummond 13 Maxey 9 Cleveland 132 41 29 37 25 Mitchell 46 Allen 10 Ball/Mitchell 8 Utah 103 30 25 14 34 Mykhailiuk 28 Nurkic 17 Clayton Jr./George 6 Detroit 114 28 25 25 36 Cunningham 31 Duren 22 Cunningham 10 Washington 107 37 23 20 27 Sarr 31 Sarr 8 Carrington 6 Boston 136 26 44 32 34 Brown 35 Queta 12 White 8 Minnesota 114 26 32 28 28 Randle 32 Gobert 9 Conley 6 New York 137 28 26 40 43 Anunoby 25 Robinson/Towns 10 Brunson 10 Houston 124 34 26 34 30 Thompson 28 Sengun 16 Sengun/Thompson 7 Memphis 109 22 29 29 29 Spencer 19 Coward 9 Morant 8 New Orleans 101 29 23 26 23 Bey 22 Bey/Murphy II 9 Murphy II 5 Dallas 99 19 30 28 22 Flagg 20 Washington 11 Marshall 5 Miami 112 33 27 26 26 Powell 23 Ware 13 Mitchell 9 Denver 122 36 32 33 21 Jokic 33 Jokic 15 Jokic 16 San Antonio 116 29 30 37 20 Wembanyama 19 Wembanyama 8 Castle 8 L.A. Lakers 118 26 34 28 30 Doncic 35 Ayton 10 Doncic 13 Golden State 116 32 30 23 31 Richard 30 Kuminga/Podziemski 9 Podziemski 9 Sacramento 121 25 32 35 29 DeRozan 25 Westbrook 16 Westbrook 10 Oklahoma City 119 41 24 21 33 Gilgeous-Alexander 35 Hartenstein 11 Wallace 5 Portland 121 21 36 24 40 Avdija 26 Avdija 10 Avdija 9ABOUT NBA SCORES: HOW TO READ NBA GAME SCORES
What you already know is, NBA games have four quarters, and if a game is tied at the end of the fourth quarter than the games goes into an overtime (OT) period. If a game is tied at the end of that first overtime, it goes into a second overtime (2OT), also known as double overtime. And you guessed it, next would come a third overtime (3OT), also known as triple overtime. On and on it goes. In general, the average NBA game ends in regulation -- which means it ended after four quarters. But plenty of contests do reach overtime. There's nothing particularly shocking about double overtime, either. It happens. Triple-overtime is more rare of course. And beyond that, I'd have to look up when the last quadruple overtime game was, because they don't happen too often.
As for NBA game scores, one of the first lessons you learn watching a lot of pro basketball is that when a team takes an early lead that sounds sizable, it doesn't mean the game is over. Don't stop watching a game because one team takes a 15-4 lead in the first quarter, for example. Assuming the team that is losing isn't some sort of historically bad squad, if they're even half decent it's quite possible that you'll blink your eyes and a few minutes later the score will be a more respectable 19-12 or something like that. And perhaps tied or at least close to tied by the end of the first quarter. Basketball is a game of runs. It's quite common for one team to hit a few shots in a row while the other team misses most or all of theirs. There are lots of 4-0, 6-0 or 8-2 runs in NBA basketball games. An 8-2 run is nice, but not anything shocking. A 10-2 or 10-0 run deserves more attention. Once we get to a 15-0 run or 15-2 run or something like that, that's the sort of run that would cause me to sit up and pay attention. But a 6-0 run here or an 8-2 run there, it's all par for the course.
As for reading NBA scoreboards and looking at the stat leaders, again, NBA basketball is a team game. Every team needs a leader, and actual good teams needs multiple leaders, and the guys who score get noticed first when looking at NBA box scores, followed by rebounding and assist leaders, and if you go deeper then of course blocks and steals are of interest. But it'll always be a team game, and if a team wins by a big scoring margin and somebody on the squad scored 30 on a good shooting percentage, rest assured that the rest of the team also did their part, on both offense and defense.
Still, all of that aside, an NBA player scoring 20 or more points is pretty standard in almost every game. A player scoring 30 also happens quite often, but not necessarily every game. A player scoring 40 or more happens less often and is pretty impressive. But a player scoring 50 will draw national attention. A player scoring 60 is putting himself into record books. A player scoring 70 or more points in a single NBA game is literally changing history.