Damian Lillard erupted with 71 points in the NBA

Damian Lillard hit 13 3-pointers and scored a club and personal-high 71 points as the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Houston Rockets 131-114 in a NBA regular-season game.

Lillard also tied Donovan Mitchell's mark for the season's leading scorer, after the Cleveland Cavaliers guard also scored 71 points in a win over the Chicago Bulls on Jan. 2.

To that point, Lillard's personal career high was 61 points, which he scored twice. He crossed that mark with a 3-pointer with 4:42 minutes remaining, also breaking his personal record for accurate shots from long range.

Lillard was one three-pointer away from the all-time NBA record set by Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors in 2018 with 14 field goals. Steph Curry for the Warriors in 2016 and Zach LaVine for the Bulls in 2019 also have 13.

Lillard left the game with 44 seconds left, having already tied Mitchell, Elgin Baylor (1960) and David Robinson (1994) for eighth all-time in single-game points.

Wilt Chamberlain is the undisputed No. 1 on that list with 100 for Philadelphia against New York on March 2, 1962 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Alperen Shengyun recorded a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Rockets, who are last in the Western Conference with just 13 wins and nine straight losses.

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