Scoring 70 points in an NBA game is nothing to take lightly. Devin Booker is only the sixth player to ever reach the mark, joining the likes of Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, David Thompson, Elgin Baylor and David Robinson. His teammate Tyson Chandler was in awe of his scoring prowess, but even more impressed with what he'd managed to do with the road crowd at the TD Garden in Boston.

“I was proud of him at 50, but Jesus, 70?” Chandler told Doug Haller of the Arizona Republic, recalling his thoughts on the court. “I told him, I said, ‘Listen, you're 20 years old and you had your name being chanted in the Garden. You turned the Garden around.'”

Booker had only 19 points by halftime before exploding for 23 in the third quarter and 28 in the fourth, clicking on all cylinders and shredding through a helpless Celtics defense. At 20 years and 145 days, he also became the youngest player to notch 60 points since Jerry West, and the third youngest to reach the 50-point mark, behind Brandon Jennings and LeBron James.

“You're in the gym alone,” Booker said. “You're taking shots. You're making them consecutively. That's what it starting feeling like for me. I felt comfortable (like) I was in my home gym, training. It started getting easier and easier.”

Booker finished 21-of-40 from the field and a sizzling 24-of-26 from the foul line, making only 4-of-11 from beyond the arc.

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“No matter who we tried on him, what we tried on him, he was in one of those zones, in a rhythm,” Celtics head coach Brad Stevens said.

The Kentucky product made the most of Avery Bradley‘s absence, the player that would be usually in charge of guarding him throughout the game. Booker already had a career-high of 42 at the end of the third quarter (had two 39-point games this season), but lit the kerosene on his flame for a blazing 28-point quarter. Thanks to coach Earl Watson's antics to try and help him reach greater heights, Booker was able to seal 70 points with two free throws before missing his last two shots of the game.

“That meant a lot,” Booker said. “A storied franchise like the Boston Celtics, and to do it here at the TD Garden, it's a night I'm going to remember for the rest of my life.”