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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 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2026 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toronto 97 25 20 21 31 Barrett 28 Murray-Boyles 15 Shead 6 Charlotte 96 22 28 22 24 Sexton 22 Diabate 11 Ball 7 Chicago 93 24 26 27 16 Dosunmu 24 Vucevic 16 Jones 12 Detroit 108 30 22 24 32 Stewart 31 Thompson 8 Jenkins 15 Washington 110 30 26 24 30 T. Johnson 20 Bagley 9 Branham 8 Philadelphia 131 37 25 30 39 Embiid 28 Embiid 7 Maxey 8 New Orleans 100 26 27 13 34 Williamson 22 Queen 10 Peavy/Williamson 6 Atlanta 117 37 28 24 28 Risacher 25 Gueye 11 Daniels 8 Denver 114 31 27 21 35 Watson 30 Murray 8 Murray 17 Boston 110 35 23 24 28 Brown 33 Queta 20 Brown/White 4 Orlando 104 21 27 31 14 11 Banchero 30 Banchero 14 Banchero/Black 6 Brooklyn 103 23 20 21 29 10 Porter Jr. 34 Sharpe 7 Demin/Sharpe 5 L.A. Clippers 111 31 25 31 24 Leonard 25 Zubac 11 Harden 9 New York 123 27 24 39 33 Brunson 26 Towns 11 Brunson/Towns 7 L.A. Lakers 91 23 20 25 23 Doncic 38 Doncic 10 Doncic 10 San Antonio 107 26 22 31 28 Johnson 27 Wembanyama 14 Barnes 6 Phoenix 117 30 35 26 26 Brooks 21 Williams 12 Booker 8 Memphis 98 23 24 21 30 Jackson Jr. 19 Landale 8 Small 7 Utah 125 22 31 33 28 11 Markkanen 29 Nurkic 15 George 11 Oklahoma City 129 31 27 33 23 15 Gilgeous-Alexander 46 Holmgren 12 Jal. Williams 8 Milwaukee 113 31 22 29 31 G. Antetokounmpo 34 G. Antetokounmpo 10 Porter Jr. 9 Golden State 120 31 33 34 22 Curry 31 Horford 10 Curry/Green 7 Houston 102 22 25 28 27 Durant 37 Eason 13 Thompson 6 Portland 103 25 32 24 22 Avdija 41 Clingan/Love 7 Love 4ABOUT 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.