Davis scores record 59 points, Pelicans top Pistons 111-106-Dopoo Sportswear

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Few players have ever had the feeling Anthony Davis did Sunday.

The star center scored a franchise-record 59 points and pulled down 20 rebounds as the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Detroit Pistons 111-106.

"That was a lot of fun, because the rim looked so big that it felt like everything I shot was going to go in," Davis said. "I wasn’t keeping track of my point total, but the guys were telling me at the timeouts. They wanted me to get 60."

The previous club record was 50 points by Jamal Mashburn exactly 13 years earlier against the Grizzlies. Davis went 24 of 34 from the floor and made his only two 3-pointers. He added nine free throws in 10 attempts.

Davis had 19 points in the fourth quarter and broke the scoring record for the Palace of Auburn Hills set by LeBron James with 48 points in an Eastern Conference finals game on June 1, 2007.

Davis joined Shaquille O’Neal and Chris Webber as the only NBA players with 50 points and 20 rebounds in a game since 1983. www.dopoosportswear.com

"I don’t think it will really sink in until tomorrow what I did today," Davis said. "But being in the history books with C-Webb and Shaq? That’s something special."

Holiday came off the bench and scored 20 points, the only other player to reach double figures for New Orleans.

Reggie Jackson led the Pistons with 34 points.

The short-handed Pistons lost another key player early on when Anthony Tolliver limped off the floor after spraining his knee in a collision with Drummond. Marcus Morris shifted to power forward with Tobias Harris playing small forward in his second game with Detroit.

The Pistons led for much of the second quarter. Davis had tipped a missed shot at the buzzer, and the ball was clearly going to fall safely off the rim. However, Drummond lost focus and reached up through the basket to swat the ball off the rim. That made it goaltending and 55-all going into halftime. http://www.dopoosportswear.com/product/Basketball-Jersey.html

Davis had 14 points in the third quarter, giving him 40 in the game, and the Pelicans led 80-75 going into the final period. Detroit scored the first six points of the fourth with Davis on the bench, but he returned with 10:02 to play and scored 19 points in the final 10 minutes.