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Jason Anderson: Domantas Sabonis has recorded his 56th consecutive double-double tonight vs. Dallas, setting a new franchise record for the longest overall double-double streak in franchise history. He passes Jerry Lucas who had a 55-game streak over two seasons from Jan. 2 to Nov. 6, 1968.
Justin Kubatko: Domantas Sabonis last night: ✅ 22 PTS ✅ 11 REB ✅ 8 AST ✅ 10-14 FG He's recorded a double-double in 47 straight games, breaking a tie with Jerry Lucas (1967-68) for the longest such single-season streak in @SacramentoKings history. Read & subscribe: statitudes.com/p/nba-game-not… pic.twitter.com/Gz2aok4yhM
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James Ham: From Kings: Domantas Sabonis has extended his double-double streak to 46 games. He has now tied Jerry Lucas (46, 1/2-3/20/68) for the longest single season double-double streak in franchise history.
Jorge Sierra: Tobias Harris passed NBA75 selections Dave DeBusschere and Jerry Lucas in scoring last night. He's No. 183 all-time at age 31. Has a decent shot at Top 100 ever.
Fox, 25, and Sabonis, 27, are both entering the prime of their careers. Fox, who is entering the third year of a five-year, $163 million contract, garnered his first All-Star selection last season. Sabonis earned his third. Fox and Sabonis became the first Kings teammates named All-NBA in the same season since Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas in 1967-68, both as Third Team selections, both for the first time in their careers. “There’s a lot of trust in me in this franchise for Fox and I to lead and we’re excited,” Sabonis said.
The 1972-73 team was honored for the 50th anniversary of their title during halftime of the Knicks’ 128-106 win over the Pelicans, with Barnett, Bradley, Monroe, Jerry Lucas, Henry Bibby and Walt Frazier in attendance. Phil Jackson was invited, per the Knicks, but didn’t attend. Some light boos filtered from the crowd at the mention of Jackson, the former team president, who was fired in 2017. “We had a veteran team,” Frazier said during the ceremony. “We understood the nuances of having ‘New York’ on our chest. We knew the high expectation, but we relished those expectations because we knew we lived in the greatest city in the world.”
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Kevin Love No. 176 in points now Moved ahead of Manu Ginobili and David West with 14,047 points. He’s now 6 away from Dave DeBusschere and Jerry Lucas
Jerry Lucas played in his first basketball game when he was in the fourth grade. In Middletown, Ohio, his grade school only had a sixth-grade team, so Lucas played up. But he didn’t play much, mostly just practicing with the team. Finally, he got on the floor for the final 15 seconds of the last game of the season. “I loved it,” Lucas told The Athletic. “I was excited about it. And I wanted to be the best player I could be.” So after the season concluded, Lucas developed his method of shooting, based on the acronym D.A.D., which stood for “direction, arc and distance.” He tried to take around 5,000 shots a day. For Lucas, each shot had a purpose, working through the three elements he envisioned. He would practice for hours, getting kicked off public basketball courts in a Middletown park by older people wanting to play.
Lucas also was the first player in American basketball history to win a title at every level — high school, college, an Olympic gold medal and the NBA. “And that’s the thing that means the most to me,” Lucas said. “Because that’s why you play. You want to be the best you can, you want to work together and function, obviously as a team should, and complement each other and do the right things to win. “And only two other players in history (Magic Johnson and Quinn Buckner) have done that. So it’s very unusual. And that’s the thing that means the most to me.”
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