‘The one guy’: Tim Hardaway Sr. says Luka Doncic could now do something that hasn’t happened in 64 years

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ImagesLuka Doncic has had an incredible start to the new season.The Los Angeles Lakers superstar has averaged 38.6 points per game so far and is leading the race to win the MVP award at the end of the campaign.Doncic has already broken a few records this season, but Tim Hardaway Sr. believes he could match one of the biggest achievements in NBA history.Tim Hardaway Sr. says Luka Doncic could score 100 points in a gameScoring 50 points in a game is an extraordinary achievement, and Doncic has managed to do it twice already this season – 53 against the Trail Blazers and 52 against the Jazz.The Slovenian’s highest tally in a single game came when he was with the Dallas Mavericks. He scored 73 points against the Hawks in January 2024.Doncic’s best single-game record for the Lakers is 60 points. It came in March this year against the Miami Heat.Yet, Hardaway Sr. believes the Los Angeles superstar is the only player in the entire NBA right now capable of scoring 100 points in a single game.He said on the Run It Back show: “That Luka man, he’s a phenomenal player. One-on-one, right now, nobody can stop him.“I always say this, if he gets on a roll and he wants to score 100, that’s the one guy who can do it. That’s the one guy who can score a 100 if he gets on a roll.”Only one player in the history of the NBA has managed to score 100 points in a single game. That was Wilt Chamberlain for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147 victory over the New York Knicks all the way back in 1962 – 64 years ago!Doncic has never even come close to matching that record, but if he proves Hardaway Sr. right and scores a century, it could become the biggest achievement in modern basketball.Read more:‘Feeling good’ – Shams Charania provides Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves injury updatesSophie Cunningham names the LA Lakers player she should be compared to instead of Luka DoncicWho Pep Guardiola previously named as his favourite modern NBA players post-Michael Jordan