Luka Dončić scores a franchise-record 73 points — tied for 4th all time — and Devin Booker puts up 62 on another wild night in the NBA

Luka Dončić and Devin Booker went on another NBA scoring spree Friday night, making this a week like none other in league history.

Dončić broke his Dallas Mavericks franchise record by scoring 73 points — tying the fourth-most ever — and Booker scored 62 for the Phoenix Suns to add to a week of offensive explosions the likes of which the league has never seen.

Friday marked only the fifth time in NBA history — and amazingly the second time this week — in which two players scored at least 60 points. Joel Embiid scored 70 for the Philadelphia 76ers and Karl-Anthony Towns had 62 for the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday.

Before that, the most recent such occurrence of two 60-point games on the same day was on April 9, 1978, when David Thompson scored 73 and George Gervin 63. The NBA went nearly 46 years without another such day before Embiid and Towns pulled it off.

Dončić had a game topped by only Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant — Friday was the fourth anniversary of the Los Angeles Lakers great’s death — on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. Chamberlain scored 100 on March 2, 1962; Bryant scored 81 on Jan. 18, 2006; Chamberlain had 78 on Dec. 8, 1961.

And now, Dončić has joined their echelon, his 73 tying Thompson and Chamberlain (who did it twice) for fourth-most in an NBA game.

“It was beautiful,” Dončić said.

Mavericks guard Luka Dončić shoots against Hawks guard Trae Young Friday in Atlanta. (Mike Stewart/AP)

Dončić’s previous career best was 60 points. He made 25 of 33 shots in the Mavs’ 148-143 road win against the Atlanta Hawks, plus went 15 of 16 from the foul line and 8 of 13 from 3-point range.

“Incredible performance,” Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said.

As if all that wasn’t enough, Dončić had 10 rebounds and seven assists. He became the fifth player in NBA history with at least 70 points and 10 rebounds in a game, joining Chamberlain (who did it six times), Elgin Baylor, David Robinson and Embiid — who did it Monday.

Add the assists in there, and nobody in NBA history had as many points, rebounds and assists in the same game as Dončić did on Friday.

“What he does on the court is different than anybody else,” Kidd said.

Booker, whose career high is 70 — also in a loss, coming in Boston in 2017 — made 22 of his 37 shots from the field, 12 of 13 from the line and 6 of 12 from 3-point range in the Suns’ 133-131 loss at Indiana. Booker missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer Friday.

He has scored at least 59 points three times in his career — and the Suns are 0-3 in those games.

Suns guard Devin Booker drives to the basket against the Pacers’ Andrew Nembhard on Friday in Indianapolis. (Darron Cummings/AP)

“He’s a spectacular player,” Suns coach Frank Vogel said. “I think he should have been voted to be an All-Star starter. I think the whole world can see that. He’ll be in that game when the coaches vote (for the reserves). What a special performance.”

Besides Monday (Embiid and Towns) and the April 1978 day (Thompson and Gervin, as they dueled on the final day for that season’s scoring title), there were just two other instances of two players scoring 60 or more on the same date.

One was Jan. 17, 1962, (Jerry West scored 63 for the Lakers, Chamberlain scored 62 for the Philadelphia Warriors) and the other was Dec. 8, 1961 (Chamberlain had 78 for the Warriors and Elgin Baylor had 63 for the Lakers in a triple-overtime game against each other).

There have been five instances of a player scoring at least 62 points in the NBA this season: the four this week with Embiid, Towns, Dončić and Booker, plus a 64-point night from the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo on Dec. 13 against the Pacers.

There haven’t been so many 62-point games in the same season since 1962-63, when there were six — all by Chamberlain. The only other season with more 62-point outings was 1961-62, when there were 12 (10 by Chamberlain, one by West, one by Baylor).

Leaguewide, NBA teams are averaging about 116 points per game this season — the highest rate in the league since the 1969-70 season.