Big NBA results and rare bench feats
A slate of recent NBA games produced notable results — the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 128–114, the New York Knicks beat Boston 112–106, and the Jazz routed the Grizzlies 147–101 while two bench players posted near‑triple and triple‑double lines. (Social reports show those scores and highlighted that bench players Bez Mbeng posted 27 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists while John Konchar had 11/11/10 in the Jazz win.) (x.com) (x.com)
Three late-season National Basketball Association games on April 9 and April 10 reshaped playoff positioning and produced one of the strangest box scores of the season: Utah beat Memphis 147-101 with two bench triple-doubles. (nba.com) Toronto beat Miami 128-114 on April 9 behind Brandon Ingram’s season-high 38 points, while New York beat Boston 112-106 the same night behind Josh Hart’s 26 points and Jalen Brunson’s 25 points and 10 assists. (nba.com) (espn.com) The Jazz game on April 10 was the outlier. Utah won by 46 points, snapped a 10-game losing streak, and got 27 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists from Bez Mbeng plus 11 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists from John Konchar. (nba.com) (espn.com) Those results landed in the final days of the regular season, when every win changes seeding math. The league schedule shows all 30 teams closing the regular season on April 12 before the play-in tournament opens April 14. (nba.com) (usatoday.com) Toronto’s win kept the Raptors moving toward a top-six Eastern Conference finish and out of the play-in round, while the Knicks’ win kept pressure on the race for the East’s No. 2 seed. Miami’s loss deepened its slide in the bottom tier of the play-in pack. (apnews.com) (espn.com) (sun-sentinel.com) Boston’s loss came in Jayson Tatum’s return to Madison Square Garden, but New York closed the game with Hart scoring 15 points in the fourth quarter. ESPN reported the Knicks stayed alive for the No. 2 seed with the six-point win. (espn.com) Utah’s box score stood out even beyond the margin. The National Basketball Association game summary said it was the first game in Jazz history in which two players recorded triple-doubles in the same game. (nba.com) Both triple-doubles came from reserves. Konchar, a former Grizzlies player now with Utah, reached 11 points for the final leg of his line, and the game summary noted that Jaren Jackson Jr. ran onto the court in celebration and drew a technical foul. (nba.com) The scores also reflected three very different late-season trajectories. Toronto and New York were chasing Eastern Conference positioning, while Utah and Memphis were playing out lottery-bound seasons in the West, with ESPN listing the Jazz at 22-59 and the Grizzlies at 25-56 after Friday’s game. (espn.com) With the regular season ending April 12, those games now read as both a standings update and a statistical oddity: two contenders tightened their grip in the East, and one rebuilding team finished a home night with a record it had never seen before. (nba.com 1) (nba.com 2)
