Chicago Bulls swingman Jimmy Butler became on Monday night the eighth player this season to uncork a 50-point game to tie the NBA's single-season record.
And there are 100 days left in the regular season for the record to be broken after Butler rumbled for 52 points to lead the Bulls to a 118-111 home victory over the Charlotte Hornets without the ailing Dwyane Wade and the benched Rajon Rondo.
Butler's second career 50-point outing put him alongside Houston's James Harden, Boston's Isaiah Thomas, Sacramento's DeMarcus Cousins, Washington's John Wall, Golden State's Klay Thompson and New Orleans' Anthony Davis on the list of players to post a 50-point game already this season.