1) Klay sets another record - 52 points, 14 threes, 27 minutes played
Heading into 29 October game against the Bulls in Chicago, Klay Thompson had been shooting the ball uncharacteristically bad. He hit a woeful five of his first 36 three-point attempts through the first seven games for the season and hadn't recorded multiple threes in a single game, but he changed his fortunes with a legendary performance on this night.
Klay finished his night towards the end of the third quarter with 52 points on a record-breaking 14 made threes. He went to the locker room at the end of the first half with ten threes and seriously looked on pace to approach 20 before Steve Kerr decided to ruin the fun and bench him. He even added insult to injury for Chicago by wearing a headband to hit his last two threes due to a head knock earlier in the quarter.
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This is far from the first time he has added his name to the record books, it's just another impossible achievement that consolidates him as the greatest heat-check player of all time.
The craziest stat from this performance is that it is only Klay's third-best career heat check game; his 37-point quarter ranks first, 60 points in 29 minutes with only 11 dribbles is second, this is third, and his eleven threes in game six of the Western Conference Finals to stay alive against the Thunder is fourth.
One of the splash brothers will probably break this record at some point before they retire - they seem to keep besting each other like that - but it's going to be a long time before anyone hits this mark again, let alone hits it before the end of the third quarter.
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