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.

To get his first career 50-point game, Markkanen shot 14-for-32 from the field, including 6-of-13 from deep. He also made 17 free throws.

It’s the first regular-season 50-point game for the Jazz since Karl Malone’s 56-point game against the Golden State Warriors on April 7, 1998. (Donovan Mitchell had two 50-point games with the Jazz, but both came in the playoffs.)

“I was wishing, trying to end the game in regulation, the legs are kind of tired at that point, but couldn’t get it done,” Markkanen said. “But I guess it was an opportunity

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