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This Day In Sports…January 23, 2015, 10 years ago today:

Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors scores 37 points in one quarter, the most in NBA history, in a 126-101 win over the Sacramento Kings. Thompson went off in the third quarter, going 13-for-13 from the field, 9-for-9 from beyond the arc, and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line. The nine three-pointers were also an NBA record for one quarter. The former Washington State Cougar, three weeks away from playing in his first NBA All-Str Game, finished with 52 points before leaving the game early in the fourth quarter.

The first half wasn’t anything special for Thompson—he went 3-for-9 from the floor and was 2-for-5 from three-point range. And he didn’t score during the first two minutes of the third quarter. From there, though, he sent the throng at Oracle Arena into orbit. The barrage began with a spinning 12-foot jumper that gave the Warriors a 60-58 lead. He followed with a steal and a pull-up fast-break three-pointer, and the record book was officially under attack.

“I was just trying to shoot until I miss,” Thompson told Warriors radio broadcaster Tim Roye after the game according to NBA.com. “Honestly, I took like four heat checks, but they just kept going in.” In breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s one-quarter record of 31 points set during his legendary 100-point game in 1962, Thompson scored 37 of the Warriors’ 41 points. Over the final 3:03 of the period, Thompson personally outscored Sacramento 18-3. When coach Steve Kerr took him out early in the fourth quarter, Thompson sat on the bench and looked at the stat sheet with his eyes bugged out.

A decade later, Thompson is in his first season with the Dallas Mavericks after spending the first 13 seasons in the Bay Area. He’s averaging 13.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.0 assists per contest while shooting 41 percent from the field and 38 percent from the three-point range in 38 games. Most of those numbers are Thompson’s fewest since his rookie year in 2011-12, but he’s still considered one of the Mavs’ best players. He’s currently out with an ankle sprain.

(Tom Scott hosts the Scott Slant segment during the football season on KTVB’s Sunday Sports Extra. He also anchors four sports segments each weekday on 95.3 FM KTIK and one on News/Talk KBOI. His Scott Slant column runs every Wednesday.)

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