Anthony Davis 44 points Wizards at Pistons tonight

Anthony Davis: 44 points, 13 rebounds, 16-of-21 FG in Washington at Detroit. Past results only, not a pick.

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Anthony Davis scored forty-four tonight for Washington, on sixteen of twenty-one shooting. He added thirteen rebounds and hit ten of eleven free throws. Who is next to go for forty?

What the numbers say. Anthony Davis played 34 minutes for the Washington Wizards on Monday night, November 9, at the Detroit Pistons. He finished with 44 points on 16-of-21 shooting from the field, which is about 76 percent. He made 2 of his 4 three-point tries and 10 of his 11 free throws, and he pulled down 13 rebounds, five of them on the offensive end. He also had one assist, one steal and three turnovers. Detroit won the game 122-111, so the Wizards are 4-7 and the Pistons are 7-3 after the final buzzer.

A 44-point night is rare in any season. Forty or more points in a single game is a big night for any player, and it usually takes both efficient shooting and a trip to the free throw line. Davis had both: sixteen made field goals on twenty-one attempts, plus eleven free throw attempts. Pairing that scoring with thirteen rebounds put him in the points-and-rebounds range that DARIMARKET tracks for star players.

This recap uses the ESPN box score for the game. It describes what already happened and is past results only, not a pick. DARIMARKET is a 21 plus sports research site that tracks player stat lines across the NBA, NFL, NHL and college football, so fans can see how often a player clears a number over a full season, not just on one big night. One game is a single data point, and the useful question is how often a player repeats a result over a larger sample.

So the question for the next few weeks is simple: who is next to go for forty? Stars with high usage, heavy minutes and a steady trip to the foul line are the usual candidates. Every line is at darimarket dot us. Research, not picks. Twenty-one plus.