Blake Griffin scored a career-high 50 points Tuesday night at Little Caesars Arena. Griffin’s Detroit Pistons beat a very good Philadelphia 76ers team 133-132 in overtime. Griffin scored the game-tying basket in overtime. Griffin scored the game-winning free throw on the and-one. Blake Griffin is good.
Wow.
Griffin became the sixth Piston in history to score at least 50 points with the last being Rip Hamilton’s 51 in 2006. Other members of the exclusive club were Jerry Stackhouse (01), Kelly Tripucka (83), Dave Bing (71) and George Yardley twice (58).