4 starters with 20 or more points matches a Milwaukee Bucks’ record

For the second time this month, the Milwaukee Bucks had four starters score 20 or more points in a game.

4 starters with 20 or more points matches a Milwaukee Bucks’ record

In their 126-117 win over Detroit, starters Khris Middleton (34), Brook Lopez (24), Jevon Carter (22), and Bobby Portis (21) each tallied 20 points or more. The fifth starter in the game for the Bucks, Grayson Allen, had seven points.

Back on March 4, the Bucks had four starters score 20 or more in a 133-130 loss to the Sixers: Giannis Antetokounmpo (34), Brook Lopez and Jrue Holiday (26 each), and Grayson Allen (20). The fifth starter was Pat Connaughton; he had one point.

Four starters with 20 or more points is a team record for the Bucks, per Stathead. They have now accomplished that feat 11 times in team history. This is only the second season where the team has had four starters with 20+ points in two regular season games in the same season; in the 2018 season, the Bucks had four starters with 20+ points in games on November 11 and November 24. In those two games, Giannis, Khris Middleton, and Malcolm Brogdon each had 20+ points in both games. Eric Bledsoe was the fourth starter with 20 points in the November 24th contest; Brook Lopez was the fourth starter with 20 points in the November 11 game.

4 Milwaukee Bucks starters with 20+ points in a regular season game

Although the Bucks have never had a regular season game where all five starters had 20 or more points, it has happened in 11 regular season games in NBA history. The last time, however, was more than 20 years ago. On January 26, 1993, the Orlando Magic had all five starters score 20+ points in a game versus Atlanta. The five: Shaquille O’Neal (26), Tom Tolbert (24), Scott Skiles (22), and Nick Anderson and Anthony Bowie with 20 each.

The first team to have five starters with 20+ points in a regular season game was on December 14, 1971, when the Lakers’ Wilt Chamberlain, Gail Goodrich, Happy Hairston, Jim McMillan, and Jerry West reached those numbers in a game versus Portland.

There have been three NBA playoff games where all five starters scored 20 or more points. Phoenix did it against the Lakers on May 23, 1984; the Celtics did it against the Bucks on May 15, 1986; and the Celtics did it against the Lakers on June 11, 1987.

Playoff games with 4 Bucks’ starters with 20 or more points

The Bucks have also had four playoff games where they had four starters score 20+ points in the same game. It happened on April 1, 1972, March 30, 1973, May 4, 1988, and July 1, 2021, when Holiday, Lopez, Middleton, and Portis each scored 20 or more points in a playoff game versus the Atlanta Hawks.

Stay tuned for more Milwaukee Bucks analysis as they potentially end the regular season with a 60-win season.