Poole Makes NBA History Once Again

As soon as once more, former College of Michigan Basketball standout, Jordan Poole, has made historical past within the 2022 NBA Playoffs. After the Warriors fell to the Celtics in Recreation One of many Finals on Thursday, Poole’s Recreation Two efficiency helped propel the Warriors previous the Celtics to even the sequence at 1-1. 

Not solely was Poole the Warriors second main scorer on the evening with 17 factors, he additionally turned the youngest participant ever to hist 5 three-point pictures in an NBA Finals sport. 

This is not the primary time Poole has made NBA historical past on this 12 months’s playoffs. 

The previous Wolverine would turn into a part of NBA historical past in his very first playoff sport, dropping 30-points in opposition to the Nuggets within the first spherical. It was the primary time in NBA Playoff historical past that 4 gamers age 22 or youthful scored 30+ factors in a sport in the identical 12 months. Poole joined Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies and Tyrese Maxey of the Philadelphia 76ers because the 4 gamers below the age of twenty-two with 30+ factors in a playoff sport this season.

Poole’s hot-streak would proceed into Recreation Two, notably from behind the arc. His 10 made three-pointers at the moment are probably the most in a participant’s first two playoff video games in NBA Historical past. His scoring whole by means of his first two video games additionally put him in elite firm – becoming a member of Wilt Chamberlain as the one two Warriors gamers with 25 or extra factors in every of their first two profession playoff video games. In actual fact, his 59 factors by means of two video games solely trails Chamberlain by simply 4 factors in Warriors playoff historical past.

You may catch Poole and the Warriors as they tackle the Celtics in Recreation Three of the NBA Finals Wednesday evening at 9 PM on ABC.