Yes! You actually heard right!!!!! The Denver Nuggets last night scored 168 points in regulation!

No. This isn’t a joke. Or at least it’s not quite April Fool’s yet. Maybe the Nuggets had the luck of the Irish the night before St. Patty’s Day. Or maybe the Seattle Sonics even with green in their uniforms just really are that pathetic.

Heck. Even Team Dumb and Dumber Clown Management 101 hasn’t quite sunk to that level.

When I was checking boxscores late last night after my Hard Hits show with the usual cast of characters in JPG, Rob “Kraze” Davis and Nate Sousa, I figured it was some sort of misprint. How could any NBA team score that many points without at least a couple of overtimes?!?!?!?!?!

Maybe that answer is best left for the participants in a historic game which saw Denver score at least 40-or-more in three of four quarters. Oh btw…they took it easy and racked up a cool 36 in the second.

I’ve seen quarters where the Knicks give up a ton but man. I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like to watch that. What happened? How did the Nuggets finish with over 60 field goals made on 100 or 101 shots??? That’s over 60 percent. Even if you aren’t good at math, duh!

I think the craziest thing was that their bench got nearly half finishing with 74 featuring a ridiculous four players in double digits with J.R. Smith & Chucky Atkins getting 19 apiece while Linas Kleiza netted 17 and somebody by the name of…

YAKHOUBA DIAWARA (try pronouncing that 10 times fast) also contributing 11!!!!!

Gee wiz. So what did some of the participants on the winning side have to say about scoring a season high 84 first half points and 168 total in just the required 48 minutes. Well at least last I checked anyway.

Kenyon Martin (11-of-13 FG, 23 pts, 8 rebs):

“A lot of people are going to think it’s a misprint. A lot of people will think there’s no way they scored that many points. It’s unbelievable. There are no words for it.”

“It’s hard to beat a team when you get 44 assists and making the extra pass. It’s tough to beat a team when you play like we did tonight.”

“Like the Rockets winning 22 straight, it’s unheard of on this level. Scoring 168 points in regulation is unheard of. Hopefully we can take what we did these last three games at home onto the road trip.”

Marcus Camby (triple double-13 pts, 15 rebs, 10 ass):

“I’ve never been a part of a game like this where we won by so many points and scored so many points. This is definitely a game I’m going to keep in my archives.”

Denver coach George Karl:

“There was no way that I couldn’t enjoy the game, not from the way we played offensively”

The poor Sonics unfortunately will have to deal with this for quite a while until they become good again when they relocate. What did they have to say?

Chris Wilcox:

“We just lost tonight. We lost by a lot. That’s just something you’re going to have to look back on. It’s just something you’re going to have to live with.”

Seattle coach P.J. Carlesimo:

“We get beat that badly, there’s no excuse for that. It matters a lot because we’re professionals and we’re trying to compete—and we didn’t compete tonight.”

Not surprisingly, Denver’s 168 point explosion which included 24 points from Allen Iverson and 26 from Carmelo Anthony became a new team record for most points in a regular season game eclipsing the previous franchise mark of 163 against the Spurs on Jan.11, 1984.

So, will it ever happen again? Probably not unless there’s a game which needs triple overtime.

Here’s the historic box:

Nuggets score 168 in regulation

Oh btw…the final score was 168-116. That’s a 52-point margin. Wow!

Me thinks one team needs a whole LOT of practice sliding their feet and doing suicides.

I wonder what JPG thinks…