Tip-Off Timer: Vandeweghe's 51 Not Enough as Denver Drops Epic Game

by Chris Tomasson

Filed under: Nuggets, Pistons

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Sunday, there are 51 days remaining.

On Dec. 13, 1983, the San Diego Chicken showed up at Denver's McNichols Arena, a gimmick needed to try to get some fans to out for what looked to be a mundane Tuesday game between the Nuggets and Detroit Pistons.

That didn't work as a mere 9,655 fans showed up.

Of course, now there might be a few hundred thousand claiming to have been on hand that night.

Denver forward Kiki Vandeweghe scored a career-high 51 points to lead all scorers. But even that wasn't enough as his Nuggets lost 186-184 to Detroit in three overtimes in the highest-scoring game in NBA history.

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