LeBron James really wants to see the footage of a California high school basketball player scoring 102 points in a game.
On Thursday (Jan. 23), Nick Khatchikian of Los Angeles-area Mesrobian High School scored 102 points in an absolute tour de force performance.
James, no stranger to high-scoring games, took to Instagram in shock at Khatchikian’s point total. “I wanna see the game film!” wrote James in the comments section of a post highlighting the news.
In the game his team won 119-25 over Waverly High School, Khatchikian went 80% from the field on 48-for-60 shooting in just 22 minutes.
Per ESPN, Khatchikian averages just over 32 points per game and his high-scoring performance broke the state of California's single-game scoring record. The outlet notes that the 6-foot-2 guard also broke the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) record held by Tigran Grigoryan, who dropped 100 points during the 2003-04 season.
Seriously, he dominated. By the end of the first quarter, he’d notched 40 points. When halftime came around, his grand total was 79. In the third quarter, he hit 102 points with two minutes left in that period. He was benched then — meaning that he could have had much more with over a quarter left in the game.
Nick Khatchikian isn’t the only member of his family to cook up a ridiculous point total on the court that night. His twin brother, Dylan, also had an unforgettable night, notching 35 assists (tying the school’s record), 15 rebounds, and 13 steals.
The last high school star who had a game nearly as epic as these was LaMelo Ball who scored 92 points in a game when he played for Chino Hills. His massive point total wasn’t just to score over and over for the sake of the stat sheet — he announced back then that the performance was dedicated to a hospitalized classmate.