Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 51 points, the first Jazz player to reach 50 in the regular season since Karl Malone in 1998, and Utah beat the Phoenix Suns 138-134 in overtime on Monday night.

For the first time in 27 years, a Utah Jazz player has scored 50 points in a regular-season game. They needed every one of them, too. Lauri Markkanen’s 51-point, 14-rebound performance pushed the Jazz to an overtime win over the Phoenix Suns on Monday.

Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 51 points, the first Jazz player to reach 50 in the regular season since Karl Malone in 1998, and Utah beat the Phoenix Suns 138-134 in overtime on Monday night. Markkanen helped the Jazz recover after they blew a seven-point lead in the final 19 seconds of regulation,

In Monday's overtime win over the Suns, Markkanen became the first Jazz player to score at least 50 points since 1998.

The Utah Jazz played 2,155 regular-season games since Karl Malone scored 56 points in a win over Golden State on April 7, 1998. No Jazz player had topped the 50-point mark in a regular-season contest until Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 51 in a 138-134 win over the Phoenix Suns on

Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 51 points, the first Jazz player to reach 50 in the regular season since 1998, and Utah beat the Phoenix Suns 138-134 in overtime on Monday. Markkanen made all 17 of his free throws.

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The Utah Jazz played 2,155 regular season games since Karl Malone scored 56 points in awin over Golden State on April 7, 1998.

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