Game Score: 40.8

Hands up if you saw this coming.

Brewer?

Brewer?

Up until the fourth last game of the season for the Timberwolves in 2013-14, Corey Brewer was in line to be remembered simply as that guy that caught all those outlet passes from Kevin Love. Then, without warning, he went and dropped 51 of the most unlikely points in NBA history on the Rockets.

How unlikely? Well, Brewer’s next highest point total last season was 27 and his previous career high was only 29.. He only topped 20 points seven times in his 81 games played last year and only scored 9 points in the game immediately preceding this career night.

No one saw this coming. No one. Don’t even pretend you did.

Given, he pulled it all off with three of the Wolves’ regular starters sitting out, but Houston had a nearly-full complement of weapons and rode their starters hard to the end of this one in an attempt to get a W in an all-important race for home-court advantage in the playoffs.

Brewer shut them down, however, going 19 for 30 from the floor, 2 for 6 from deep, and 11 for 15 from the charity stripe, while adding 2 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block, and a ridiculous 6 steals (tied for the second-highest single-game total by anyone all season). There will almost certainly never be a better Corey Brewer game.