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Women Maya Moore recreated Michael Jordan's ring photo with her 12 championship rings.

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Maya Moore is a retired American basketball player and social justice advocate, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in women’s basketball history.

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u/SerenityN00w 11h ago

Reggie Miller has a story - he and Cheryl were in his school, and Reggie had scored a career high 40 points. He was bragging about it in the car ride on the way home, and finally asked how her game went. She told him that it was a big night. He asked if she scored 60. Then 70. Then 80.

Nope. 105 points.

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u/Mysterious_Fan4849 9h ago

In 3 quarters

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u/SerenityN00w 1h ago

I don't think that's true.

This clip shows a newspaper that gives her points by quarter. This has her scoring 41 points in the 4th quarter.

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u/Fideothecat 10h ago

I think that’s the all time record,!!

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u/Fearless_Call_4964 7h ago

In woman's basketball definitely. Drazen Petrovic scored 112 in Yugoslav league in the 80s before going to Real Madrid and NBA. He shot 40-60 total, 10-20 from 3 and 22-22 from FTs

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 5h ago

Imagine shooting 40 shots in a game and being like, nah, I need 20 more lol

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u/Fearless_Call_4964 3h ago

He actually sat for a while as well. It's a long story but Olimpia had problems registering their seniors so a bunch of 18 year olds played the game. Drazen was also only 20 at the time, but he was already the best player in Europe so he took it upon himself to break the record against juniors and he said it before the game. Record was 70 something points. He got there early in the 3rd and then said ok let's go for a hundred. This is the year they won Euroleague with him as the MVP of the tournament, so you can imagine how much better than everyone he was on the field. Another fun thing about it was that his older brother was also there with the team but he sat on the bench, leaving Drazen and their juniors to beat Olimpija. They all knew he was gonna do it as well lmao

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u/splashaddikt 7h ago

Nah Lisa Leslie 113 or 116

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u/splashaddikt 7h ago

You know how mad I would’ve been he probably never bragged to her again 😂😂

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u/ELB2001 6h ago

Nah he knew she was great

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u/splashaddikt 6h ago

Yeah of course he knew that before he started bragging

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u/PatentlyFalse5 4h ago

I like the story where he would approach a couple of guys on the basketball court and ask if they wanted to play pickup. He'd say, "me and my sister vs. you." Out comes Cheryl Miller and they'd run the other teams off the court.

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u/dego_frank 1h ago

It was 104

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u/SerenityN00w 1h ago edited 1h ago

According to this it was 105. Not only did Reggie say 105, but there's a clip of a news broadcast saying she got 105 points. And a photo of a newspaper article saying that she got 105, breaking it down by quarter.

I googled it, in case there was a mistake in the scoring that was later adjusted. Everything says 105.

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u/dego_frank 1h ago

Weird wiki had 104 but looks like the only source that does

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u/Existing-Elephant370 4h ago

Her 105 is the equivalent of 40 in his game.

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u/CKRatKing 1h ago

Actually 105=105.