Boston Celtics News: Watch Sam Hauser's Record Three Point Shooting Night

Boston Celtics wing Sam Hauser poured in a career-most 10 three point makes last night, while helping lead the club to its fifth consecutive victory over the lowly Washington Wizards. In fairness, Washington hasn't done much winning at all this season. The Wiz currently have the worst record in the league, and one of the worst in NBA history, at 11-57. Boston blew them out, 130-104, on Sunday. Check out his historic night below, via the NBA:

As the league notes in the above tweet, Hauser's 10 made treys in just 22:49 make him now the first NBA player to achieve that tally in under 23 minutes... ever! Hauser drew a rare start with combo guard Derrick White on the shelf, but head coach Joe Mazzulla opted to spread out White's minutes between multiple players instead of having Hauser play 35+. The 6'7" Virginia product finished the night not having taken a single shot from within the three point arc, going a bonkers 10-of-13 from three point land (76.9%) for the aforementioned 30 points. He also pulled down six boards, dished out one dime and swiped one steal.

The Celtics, meanwhile, own the best record in the NBA right now. At 53-14, Boston is a whopping 9.5 games clear of the 44-24 Milwaukee Bucks for the No. 1 overall seed in the Eastern Conference, with just 15 bouts left in the Celtics' season. And in a game where Boston desperately wanted to avoid some kind of letdown "trap" loss to an East non-contender, a role player stepped up big-time.

For the year, the third-year guard boasts career-high averages in minutes (21.2), points (8.4 on excellent .459/.432/.882 shooting splits), and rebounds (3.4). He's also right in line with his career-best mark in assists (just 0.9 per, but in fairness his game is as a catch-and-shoot sniper, not a playmaker). He inked a three-year, $5.7 million minimum deal with Boston ahead of the 2022-23 season. Boston has a team option on him for the 2024-25 season, worth just $2.1 million. It's safe to say he's far outperformed that money -- which means Boston will almost certainly exercise that option.

Unfortunately, all that shooting appears to have come at a cost. Boston will play another game tonight, on the second evening of a back-to-back pair of games, against the second-worst team in the East (and the NBA at large), the Detroit Pistons. But it will be doing that without Hauser. Per the NBA's latest injury report, the 26-year-old sprained his left ankle last night.