10 insane Maxey and 76ers stats from Game 1 vs. Raptors originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Tyrese Maxey has been a human stat machine the entire second half of the season, and Saturday night was no different.
He was better than ever.
Maxey, the 76ers’ high-flying 21-year-old guard, put on a historic performance in the 76ers’ 131-111 win over the Raptors in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference first-round series at the Wells Fargo Center.
Maxey scored more points in 12 minutes of the third quarter (21) than his predecessor, Ben Simmons, scored in a combined 100 minutes in the last three full games of last year’s conference semifinal series against the Hawks (19), the last games Simmons played.
Here’s our 10 crazy, ridiculous and unreal Maxey and 76ers stats from Game 1.
ONE OF THE YOUNGEST EVER: At 21 years, 163 days, Tyrese is the 3rd-youngest player in NBA postseason history with a 38-point game. Magic Johnson scored 42 for the Lakers vs. the 76ers in the 1980 Finals at 20 years, 276 years old, and LeBron James had consecutive games of 41, 38 and 45 points, all against the Wizards in the Cavs’ 2006 first-round series against Washington, all between 21 years and 119 days and 21 years 124 days. Maxey is the 13th player in 76ers history with 38 points in a playoff game and the first other than Joel Embiid since Allen Iverson did it 11 times between 2000 and 2003.
21 YEARS OLD, 21 POINTS: Maxey’s 21-point third quarter makes him the youngest player with a 21-point postseason quarter in the last 26 seasons, which is as far back as the Stathead quarter scoring database goes. The youngest player previously since the start of the 1996-97 playoffs with a 21-point quarter in the playoffs was Donovan Mitchell of the Jazz, who scored 22 points in the third quarter against the Thunder in the 2018 Western Conference first round at 21 years, 232 days, or about two months older than Maxey is now. The only other 76er ever with a 21-point quarter is Iverson, who…