StaTuesday: The Bucks and the 40-point drought

For a while Monday, it seemed like Jabari Parker might score 40 points for the Milwaukee Bucks against the Houston Rockets. Certainly that was the case when Parker went to halftime having already scored 20.

Parker had 34 points with 5:29 remaining in the game, however he took only two more shots (making one) the rest of the game to end with a career-high 36 points.

If Parker could have hit 40 it would have ended a very long streak for the Bucks, who haven't seen a player wearing a Milwaukee jersey score that many points yet this decade. Brandon Jennings was the last to accomplish the feat and that was back on Nov. 14, 2009.

In the post-ABA expansion era -- beginning with the 1988-89 season when Miami and Charlotte entered the league (yes, Dallas entered for the 1980-81 season but the NBA went a little expansion crazy later, adding four teams in the late '80s and then two more in the mid-'90s) -- Milwaukee has had just 26 players score 40 or more points.

Only eight players have performed the task in that span and just two forwards -- Vin Baker (once) and Glenn Robinson (five times), so Parker could have been in some elite company.

Parker made one 3-pointer Monday. Twice since 1988-89 has a Bucks player who had 40 points not made a 3 -- Baker and Ramon Sessions. On the flip side, Ray Allen had 10 3s in one of his 40-point games, as well as eight (Michael Redd also had eight in one of his games).

Redd has the most 40-point games for a Bucks since 1988-89 with 11. Milwaukee was 5-6 in those games.

Here's the list of Bucks 40-point scorers since 1988-89:

If you are wondering how many times in franchise history someone has had 40 points, the number boosts to 98 -- and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did 55 of those times.

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