Jonas Valanciunas career record night drives Pelicans to comfortable win over Clippers

Jonas Valanciunas will remember Monday night for the rest of his life.

The Lithuanian big man had an all-ages game, setting and breaking multiple records in the process, and helped the Pelicans to an easy 123-104 win over the Clippers.

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Going into this competition, Valanciunas is having the highest career average of 18.5 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists while making 3 pointers a game with a 46.0 performance. %. However, in this game, he went bonkers.

Here are the records the Pelicans have set, tied or broken with his performance at the STAPLES Center (soon to be named Crypto.com Arena):

39 – Tally high scores in the profession

The 6-foot-11 man’s previous career high was 34 points but he surpassed that by bursting out with a score of 39 – 29 of which came in just the first half.

39 for the game and 29 for the half are both career highs. This is Valanciunas’ 11th game in career scoring 30 points or more and the first as a pelican.

Eight of his previous 10 30-point games were with members of the Memphis Grizzlies while the other went to the Toronto Raptors.

His first-half outburst got his former teammate Ja Morant excited:

7 – 3 career pointers

Center did most of his damage from outside the arc, taking down seven career-high seven 3-pointers in just eight attempts at a ridiculous 87.5 percent efficiency.

He took out all of those seven in the first half with perfect shots. Here’s a look at this shot chart from the first half:

Valanciunas seems to like the Clippers’ defense this season. In two games so far, he’s taken down 12 3-pointers in 17 attempts while he’s taken 18 out of 41 in another 21 games.

His 7/7 shot in the first half put his name on par with several elite companies:

35-10-7: Joins Stephen Curry

With this performance, the Pelicans and Stephen Curry became the only players this season to score at least 35 points, 10 rebounds and beat 7 players with 3 points.

Fun fact, both of these matches were recorded against the Clippers. He also became the first player in franchise history to score those numbers.

39-15-7: Join James Harden and Vince Carter

In the last minute, Valanciunas finished the game with 39 points, 15 rebounds, three assists and two steals in 32 minutes. That stat line coupled with seven 3-pointers makes him the fourth player in NBA history to score those numbers.

Among the players who scored at least 39 points, 10 rebounds and 7 3 points, Valanciunas joined group of Harden (x3) and Carter.