Trio of NBA superstars put up video game-like numbers as playoffs approach

The NBA playoffs are just 17 days away and the game's biggest stars are apparently gearing up

Tuesday night, three of the best showed why they are NBA champions with mind-blowing performances

No surprise, Denver Nuggets Center, Nicola Yokic is on the list. How about 61 points the most by a player this season

Also 10 rebounds and 10 assists and a double overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves

The three-time league most valuable player was asked to refurb. on his accomplishments, but as a man of few words, he said he'd leave that for retirement

I think it's another thing for after sitting on a couch, drinking beer and lying

If the Joker won't talk much about his game, his coach certainly will

The Nuggets played without two of their best guys, Michael Porter and Jamal Murray

Nicole is just, he's on a whole other level, man. The guys, people say he's not athletic

Not many guys can do what he does. Meanwhile, in Memphis, Steph Curry hit his first five shots

route to a 52-point performance that included 12-3-pointers, one-off his career high

The Warriors beat the Grizzlies to move ahead of them in the playoff seating race

Curry took last week off to rest a bruised hip. Looks like he's healed up just in time for the postseason

Feeling a good rhythm. The week off definitely helped in that sense where the tank is pretty full and you want to try to maintain that for as long as we can down the stretch And to put Curry feet into perspective here where the 37 ranks on the all

list for 50-point games. His 15th such effort broke a tie with LeBron James

The only other active players on the list are LeBron, Damien Lillard, and James Harden

Speaking of records, Janice Attentacompo and the Milwaukee Bucks made 68% of their shots to

Tuesday night in a win over the Phoenix Suns. It's the highest field goal percentage by a team in a single game in 27 years

The Bucks are fighting to stay out of the play-in round of the playoffs, and they leaned on Janus, who had 37 points

We definitely needed a win. I kept saying to my team is we fight for our lives, we fight for our lives

But I think I'm joking, but I'm not joking. We're fighting for our lives right here. We're so close to being an incredible offensive team

I mean, we shoot 70% in the first half the other night. We shoot 68.9 tonight

Gosh, we can just rebound the ball and take care of the ball

We got a chance to break out and make a hell of a run here. Yeah, video game type numbers

Maybe it was April Fool's. But if Tuesday night is any indication, the stars are certainly ready for playoff time

The question is which team can put it all together to make a run for the title

For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis