Most Combined Points In an NBA Game Regulation (Run-TMC vs. Denver)

When Don Nelson's Warriors and Paul Westhead's Enver Nuggets (no D) play, you know it's gonna be worth watching. Run-TMC score 99 points - 38 for Mullin, Hardaway has 32 and 18 assists, Richmond adds 29. The high-scoring trio for Denver is Orlando Woolridge (37), Walter Davis (33) and Todd Lichti with 19, combining for 89 points. NBA record - both teams combine for 320, run & gun at its best. November 2, 1990

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[davd1986]

Don Nelson's teams never play(ed) any defense. Whether it was the old school Warriors, or the Mavs with Nash, Nowitzki, Finley, etc or the new school Warriors with B Diddy, Richardson, Jackson, Pietrus, not much defense. I guess that's why the offense was so fun to watch from Nelson's teams!!

[LamarMatic]

@davd1986 Don't forget about those Bucks teams from the 80's. They were a decent defensive team and of course were lead by Sidney Moncrief, who won the DPOY award two times (only guard who has done it). So Don Nelson's teams have played defense.

[tellthetruthg]

no one on either team was known for D except TR Dunn and he had to guard Mullins . Actually there were so many scorers on each team and they were both on fire no D could have stopped them. Tom Tolbert scored 16 or more OMG. I'm going to dial up KNBR radio just to ask him about that game

[LamarMatic]

@tellthetruthg If you do so, please drop by what Tolbert says about this game.

[Gauchoo1234]

excellent video, mate

keep posting ;-)

[LamarMatic]

@Gauchoo1234 Thanks. Will do.

[sheba021]

and only a week later they combined for 316 with the Suns allowing them to score 173 points :D

i love 90/91 Nuggets, they are the absolute BEST worst team in the history of NBA. To average 120 points per game and win only 20 games in the season is truly an amazing accomplishment.

Plus they gave us so many epic games that season, like this one or one against the Bulls.

I have 2 of their games that aren't on tube (vs Sonics and Rockets), i will most definitely make the highlights soon.

[cjs3872]

@billslover90

Which kind of backs up my statement about Don Nelson being a Hall of Famer as both a player and a coach. And let's not forget what he pulled off in 2007 against a vastly superior Dallas Mavericks team. But the one thing that goes against Nelson is that he's never even gotten a team to an NBA Finals, unlike Fitch, who won the title in 1981 with the Celtics and led the Houston Rockets to the Finals in 1986. And Popovich is the most sussessful modern NBA coach not named Phil Jackson.

[billslover90]

@cjs3872 him and bill fitch have been voted as one of the top 10 greatest coaches in history. greg popavich also has the potential to be like them and get inducted

[cjs3872]

@billslover90

As a player or as a coach, because it can be argued that he belongs in both capacities. As a player, he was on six or seven championship teams, and along with John Havlicek, he was one of only two holdovers from the Russell-era championship teams that were also on the great Celtic teams in the mid-70s that won titles in 1974 and '76 and set a franchise record in 1973 with 68 wins, though that team lost to the Knicks in the playoffs.

[ezt123dp]

damn 90's basketball is so freakin smooth and everything is finished with finesse, not like today where everyone can dunk it..

[cjs3872]

@TheTop1PercentOwnUs

What was it about the Denver Nuggets and NBA scoring records? In January 1984, they played a game against the Spurs in which the two teams set a record for combined points in an NBA regluation game with 318, as the Nuggets won 163-155. Then there was that legendary shootout against the Pistons a month earlier in which the Pistons won the NBA's highest-scoring game, 186-184 in 3OT. Then there's the record the Nuggets set in 1981-'82 by averaging 126 PPG for an entire season.

[TheTop1PercentOwnUs]

87-83 at the half. That's a FINAL score in today's humdrum isolation one-on-one gimme the ball I'll shoot it with one sec on the shot clock NBA. Oh yea and the 2002 WCF game 6 was fixed.

[grasd2]

those Westhead Nuggets teams were such a disaster, worst defense in basketball history

[billslover90]

why isnt don nelson in the hall of fame????? he needs to be inducted

[ninguemvj]

Did those guys hybernate on the off-season or something!?!??!

Talk about b-ball hunger...

[nbaboxing]

@martinbahr yup thats exactly how i explain it