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Bewildered and in a kingdom of disbelief, San Antonio Spurs ahead Sandro Mamukelashvili walked back-and-forth half-dressed close to his locker Wednesday night time repeating the equal phrases after his team’s 120-one zero five win over the New York Knicks.
“I do not know what f—ing happened,” Mamukelashvili said. “I do not know what f—ing happened.”
With right pal and rapper Flavor Flav hyping a crowd of 18,521 that gleefully flooded Frost Bank Center with MVP chants, Mamukelashvili made NBA records via way of means of scoring the maximum points — a career-excessive 34 — in a recreation while gambling fewer than 20 mins due to the fact 1951-52, while mins have become official.
“I’ve been awaiting nowadays for a protracted time,” Mamukelashvili said. “I simply cannot give an explanation for how I sense proper now. I sense like I’m in a dream. I manifested and prayed for it. I simply waited for nowadays. I certainly had an out of frame revel in for a bit bit there. I changed into like, ‘Is this certainly happening?'”
Spurs teammates made certain of it, mobbing Mamukelashvili at the ground on the very last buzzer. Dressed in a crimson T-blouse together along with his trademark clock dangling from his neck, Flavor Flav made it even greater actual via way of means of crashing the forward’s on-courtroom docket postgame interview to say, “I do not care what no person says. My guy is on fiiiiiiiirrrreee!”
Sitting one locker over from Mamukelashvili mins after all of the pandemonium at the courtroom docket, teammate Jeremy Sochan requested half-jokingly whether “we are able to get Flavor Flav to stay” in San Antonio for a while.
Averaging 8.nine mins for the season, Mamukelashvili did not input Wednesday’s recreation till fifty five seconds into the second one zone. The 25-year-vintage wasted little time making his presence felt. Mamukelashvili scored his first bucket on a tip-in off a Blake Wesley miss. Then, he drilled a 27-footer off a Stephon Castle help to provide the Spurs a seven-factor lead.
He completed the zone with thirteen factors on 5-of-6 shooting, which includes three-of-three from lengthy variety with 7 rebounds and an help as San Antonio walked off the ground at intermission main 67-43.
area. The 25-year-antique wasted little time making his presence felt. Mamukelashvili scored his first bucket on a tip-in off a Blake Wesley miss. Then, he drilled a 27-footer off a Stephon Castle help to provide the Spurs a seven-factor lead.
He completed the area with thirteen factors on 5-of-6 shooting, together with three-of-three from lengthy variety with 7 rebounds and an help as San Antonio walked off the ground at intermission main 67-43.
“thirteen-of-14 from the field, 7-for-7 from three, it’d be ridiculous to mention that become predicted in 19 mins and 26 seconds of opportunity,” Spurs appearing train Mitch Johnson said. “He’s a honestly exact shooter, and you are simply looking ahead to him to have one of these games. I assume that probable surpassed a number of the concept of getting one of these games. But he involves paintings each day. He’s the maximum regular person, specially whilst you communicate approximately the position that he has. That’s why you may listen a bit little bit of the guys [in the locker room] and their feeling for him.”
Mamukelashvili failed to play withinside the 0.33 area. But withinside the very last frame, he lit up.
