{"id":430473,"date":"2026-01-24T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:13:07","slug":"hawks-jalen-johnson-sets-new-nba-record-for-20-15-5-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430473\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks&#8217; Jalen Johnson sets new NBA record for 20-15-5 history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Johnson&#8217;s season continues to be a special one for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest exceptional moment came Friday night, when Johnson set a new NBA record.<\/p>\n<p>The feat is quite specific: Johnson is the youngest forward in NBA history to record three consecutive games of at least 20 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realapp\/status\/2014893131053801859\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to Real Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The stretch began with a game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> when Johnson went for 28 points, 16 rebounds and 6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Then a couple days later against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/memphis-grizzlies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>, Johnson put up 32 points, 15 rebounds and 8 assists.<\/p>\n<p>And in a win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> on Friday, Johnson finished with 23 points, 18 rebounds and 9 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is 24 years, 37 days old as of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\/news\/what-giannis-antetokounmpos-injury-means-bucks-trade-plans-playoff-outlook-future-greek-freak\/473a29984b4315a1a66eb8ae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What Giannis injury means for the Bucks&#8217; future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The No. 20 overall pick out of Duke in 2021 has blossomed into a rising superstar for Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Johnson is averaging 23.2 points, 10.5 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 1.2 steals per game. He&#8217;s also shooting 51.2% from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>He proved in Trae Young&#8217;s injury absence early in the season that Atlanta can be a strong team without its divisive point guard, and he did it so well that the Hawks ended up trading Young to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wizards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is Johnson&#8217;s team now, and he&#8217;s proving he can carry the load.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Johnson&#8217;s season continues to be a special one for the Atlanta Hawks. The latest exceptional moment came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-430473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}