The Nuggets’ 168 points on Sunday night against Seattle was the fourth-highest scoring output in regulation all-time. Denver also became the first team in NBA history to score at least 84 points in both the first and second half of game. Four other clubs in league history have scored at least 80 points in both halves of a contest.

The Mavericks enter this week on a five-game winning streak, with each of those victories coming by at least 19 points. Dallas never fell behind in any of its last five games and has led wire-to-wire an NBA-best 16 times this season.

The Boston Celtics have posted a 33-1 record against teams currently with a losing record this season. Only two teams in NBA history have lost fewer than two games against clubs that finished the season below .500 – the 1989-90 Phoenix Suns (29-1) and the 2006-07 Dallas Mavericks (41-1).

The Cavaliers have posted a 38-29 (.567) record despite getting outscored in 2007-08. The 1994-95 Los Angeles Lakers (48-34, .585) are the only team in NBA history to post a better record in a season while scoring fewer points than their opponents.

The Hawks’ bench scored a total of just four points (all on free throws, 0-for-10 from the field) in Atlanta’s 83-75 loss to Houston on Wednesday. It was the first time that a club’s reserves failed to make a single field goal in a game this season.

Jose Calderon is averaging 8.5 assists per game and shooting .529 from the field and .922 from the free-throw line this season. He is looking to join Magic Johnson (1988-89), Mark Price (1988-89) and Steve Nash (2005-06 and 2007-08) as the only players in league history to average eight or more assists per game while shooting at least .500 from the field and .900 from the line in a single season.

Dwight Howard has grabbed 34.3 percent of the Magic’s rebounds this season, the highest percentage by a player since Dennis Rodman pulled down 36.1 percent of the Spurs’ boards in 1993-94. Moses Malone, Ben Wallace and Swen Nater are the only other players to grab at least one-third of their club’s rebounds in the past 30 seasons.

Deron Williams is averaging 14.2 assists per game in March. That is the highest assists-per-game average by a player in a single month since John Stockton handed out 14.3 assists per game in January of the 1991-92 season (minimum 5 games).

Baron Davis and Monta Ellis combined to average 51.0 points in the Warriors’ three games last week. For the season, Davis and Ellis have averaged a combined 41.8 points per game, the highest by any starting backcourt in the league (minimum 20 starts).