The stat sheet: December 13, 1983 - Denver Nuggets/ Detroit Pistons game - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

Basketball Digest, Summer, 2002

On December 13, 1983, the Detroit Pistons defeated the Denver Nuggets 186-183 in triple-OT--the NBA's highest-scoring game.

--0 Despite Denver's 68 baskets, no Nugget finished with double figures in assists.

--2 Only two three-point shots were made in the game, in four attempts.

--3 Three starters (Rob Williams and T.R. Dunn, Denver, and Cliff Levingston, Detroit) failed to score in double figures.

--4 Four players (Nuggets Howard Carter and Ken Denard and Pistons Kent Benson and David Thirdkill) didn't score.

--6 Six NBA records were set, and still stand today: most points (370) and field goals (142), two teams; most points and field goals, one team (Detroit, 186 and 74); most players scoring 40 or more points (4); and most assists, two teams (93).

--12 Detroit missed 62 shots and Denver 47, but only two players rebounded in double figures: Alex English (Nuggets) and Bill Laimbeer (Pistons), with 12 apiece.

--16 Current Denver coach Mike Evans finished with 16 points in the game; the man he replaced, Dan Issel, notched 28.

--17 Isiah Thomas led the Pistons with 47 points, played a game-high 52 minutes, and dished out 17 assists.

--40 Evans played 40 minutes off the bench for the Nuggets, the most of any reserve.

--51 Denver's Kiki Vandeweghe led all scorers with 51 points in "only" 50 minutes.

--74 The game was tied 74-74 at halftime.

--9,655 Fewer than 10,000 fans witnessed the game at Denver's McNichols Arena.