On Tuesday night, we had the pleasure of watching two all-time basketball greats fire on all cylinders on the same evening. In Memphis, iconic sharpshooter Steph Curry dropped 52 points (with 12 3-pointers!) in a win for the Golden State Warriors. Later, the Denver Nuggets' masterful Nikola Jokic put up a 61-point triple-double — the highest-scoring triple-double in league history — in a double overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
But look around the landscape of NBA fandom after the fact, and you might have thought that these transcendent performances never happened.