No player in all of basketball is a better fourth-quarter performer than Nets star guard Kyrie Irving.
Irving scored 21 of his 32 points in the final period alone in Brooklyn’s 122-115 victory over the Knicks at Barclays Center on Saturday. The scoring barrage marked his fourth 20-point fourth quarter of the season, tying Trae Young, Kemba Walker and former Celtics star Isaiah Thomas for the most 20-point fourth quarters in a season since the league started tracking single quarter statistics in the 1996-97 season.
With 33 games left in the regular season, Irving may very well become the sole owner of the record — especially with Kevin Durant out about another week at minimum recovering from an MCL sprain in his right knee.
