


He also scored 38 points the game before that four-game stretch, and is averaging 37.6 points per game over his last five games. Young has scored 40 or more points just twice this season so far, but he appears to be heating up - he's hit the 40-point mark twice (along with his 38-point night earlier this week) - in his last four games. Both of those numbers, if he can keep those rates up, could be beneficial in him scoring 40 or more points more times this season.
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Young isn’t quite playing as many minutes this year so far, so his averages have dropped off slightly to 27.0 points and 8.6 assists per game, though he’s also making a career-best 36.8% of his 3-point attempts - no small number considering the difficulty of his shots at times - and he’s getting to the free throw line a career-high 10.7 times per game. Young averaged 19.1 points and 8.1 assists per game as a rookie, then topped both marks in last year’s COVID-shortened season with 29.6 points and 9.3 assists per contest. And since joining the league, he’s been almost impossible to stop as a scorer and distributor. 5 overall pick by the Dallas Mavericks before he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks as part of a deal for Luka Doncic. Young entered the NBA after an All-American season at Oklahoma and was taken with the No. She told me I was her favorite player to watch. The Atlanta Hawks (40-39) are keeping their eye on three players on the injury report, including Trae Young, as they prepare for a Wednesday, April 5 matchup with the Washington Wizards (34-45) at State Farm Arena, which starts at 7:30 PM ET. "This the first moment I was able to meet Gianna Maria, she's been to only 3 games this this year.2 of them were mine. "This S*** can't be real," Young tweeted last January, along with a picture of himself, Kobe and Gianna. Wearing the Bryant’s digit, Young dropped 45 points and 14 assists. 8 after the Los Angeles Lakers legend died in a helicopter accident. And it was one-year after Young, who had a close relationship with Bryant and worked out with him in the offseasons, wore Bryant’s No.

Young’s latest 40-point showing comes the same week as Young just missing the 40-point mark with 38 points while paying tribute to his idol, Kobe Bryant.

But Young is within striking distance of O’Neal (19) and just two games behind James (16) with plenty of this season left to go. Jordan’s mark sits at a ridiculous 44 games. And according to ESPN’s Stats & Info, since the NBA-ABA merger before the 1976-77 season, only three players - Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James have had more 40-plus-point games in the NBA. It marked the 14th 40-plus-point game of Young’s career. And he joined a special group of scorers Friday night when he dropped 41 points in a 116 to 100 win over the Washington Wizards. Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young is one fo the NBA’s most explosive scorers.
