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NBA Game Scores
InsideHoops.comDaily NBA game scores for the NBA regular season, plus player stat leaders in points, rebounds and assists for each game. Also read NBA game recaps. And to view highlights with your own eyes, watch NBA videos:
DAILY NBA GAME SCORES
GAMES OF MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2026 TEAM TOT 1 2 3 4 OT POINTS: TEAM LEADERS REBOUNDS: TEAM LEADERS ASSISTS: TEAM LEADERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis 107 22 24 29 32 Jackson II 26 Burton 8 Clayton Jr. 6 Atlanta 146 32 39 45 30 Alexander-Walker 26 Risacher 8 McCollum 9 L.A. Lakers 110 27 25 35 23 Doncic 32 Ayton 10 L. James 10 Detroit 113 23 42 24 24 Jenkins 30 Duren 11 Jenkins 8 Indiana 128 34 25 44 25 Siakam 37 Nembhard 7 Nembhard 14 Orlando 126 24 40 31 31 Banchero 39 Bitadze 7 Bane 7 Oklahoma City 123 35 30 32 26 Gilgeous-Alexander 22 Hartenstein 12 Jal. Williams 6 Philadelphia 103 25 18 36 24 Edgecombe 35 Barlow 7 Payne 6 San Antonio 136 38 38 32 28 Wembanyama 26 Wembanyama 15 Castle/Fox/Harper 6 Miami 111 31 27 23 30 Powell 21 Ware 7 Jaquez Jr. 6 Houston 124 21 27 39 37 Durant 40 Sengun 13 Sengun 10 Chicago 132 41 24 30 37 Sexton 25 Miller 9 Giddey 13 Toronto 143 31 37 49 26 Barrett 27 Barnes 7 Shead 14 Utah 127 25 33 30 39 Bailey 37 Filipowski 8 Chandler 9 Golden State 137 34 29 35 28 11 Moody 23 Podziemski 10 Green/Podziemski 6 Dallas 131 31 42 25 28 5 Flagg 32 Gafford 7 Flagg 9 Brooklyn 99 30 21 22 26 Etienne 18 Minott/Johnson 5 Traore 5 Portland 134 35 34 28 37 Camara 35 Clingan 15 Murray/Wesley 5 Milwaukee 96 24 23 20 29 Trent Jr. 20 Prince/Nance/Portis Jr. 6 Dieng/Rollins 7 L.A. Clippers 129 28 43 37 21 Leonard 28 Jones Jr./Leonard 5 Garland 6ABOUT NBA SCORES: HOW TO READ NBA GAME SCORES
What you already know is, NBA games have four quarters, and if a game is tied at the end of the fourth quarter than the games goes into an overtime (OT) period. If a game is tied at the end of that first overtime, it goes into a second overtime (2OT), also known as double overtime. And you guessed it, next would come a third overtime (3OT), also known as triple overtime. On and on it goes. In general, the average NBA game ends in regulation -- which means it ended after four quarters. But plenty of contests do reach overtime. There's nothing particularly shocking about double overtime, either. It happens. Triple-overtime is more rare of course. And beyond that, I'd have to look up when the last quadruple overtime game was, because they don't happen too often.
As for NBA game scores, one of the first lessons you learn watching a lot of pro basketball is that when a team takes an early lead that sounds sizable, it doesn't mean the game is over. Don't stop watching a game because one team takes a 15-4 lead in the first quarter, for example. Assuming the team that is losing isn't some sort of historically bad squad, if they're even half decent it's quite possible that you'll blink your eyes and a few minutes later the score will be a more respectable 19-12 or something like that. And perhaps tied or at least close to tied by the end of the first quarter. Basketball is a game of runs. It's quite common for one team to hit a few shots in a row while the other team misses most or all of theirs. There are lots of 4-0, 6-0 or 8-2 runs in NBA basketball games. An 8-2 run is nice, but not anything shocking. A 10-2 or 10-0 run deserves more attention. Once we get to a 15-0 run or 15-2 run or something like that, that's the sort of run that would cause me to sit up and pay attention. But a 6-0 run here or an 8-2 run there, it's all par for the course.
As for reading NBA scoreboards and looking at the stat leaders, again, NBA basketball is a team game. Every team needs a leader, and actual good teams needs multiple leaders, and the guys who score get noticed first when looking at NBA box scores, followed by rebounding and assist leaders, and if you go deeper then of course blocks and steals are of interest. But it'll always be a team game, and if a team wins by a big scoring margin and somebody on the squad scored 30 on a good shooting percentage, rest assured that the rest of the team also did their part, on both offense and defense.
Still, all of that aside, an NBA player scoring 20 or more points is pretty standard in almost every game. A player scoring 30 also happens quite often, but not necessarily every game. A player scoring 40 or more happens less often and is pretty impressive. But a player scoring 50 will draw national attention. A player scoring 60 is putting himself into record books. A player scoring 70 or more points in a single NBA game is literally changing history.