Wearing Kyrie Irving’s shoes and jersey number, third-year Cavs guard Collin Sexton absolutely torched Irving on his own tribute night in Cleveland.
While the intrigue heading into this game surrounded Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving joining forces for the first time, Sexton snatched the headlines with his blistering 42-point performance, with 22 of those points coming across the two overtime periods.
It was a truly stunning display, with Sexton at one point scoring 20 consecutive Cleveland points.
Here’s how NBA players around the league reacted:
YOUNG BULL @CollinSexton02 went off tonight!!!!!!!!! 42 piece!!! 🐂🐂🐂
— Kevin Love (@kevinlove) January 21, 2021
sexton on one 🥴
— Ja Morant (@JaMorant) January 21, 2021
Youngbull!!
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) January 21, 2021
Young bull just went dumb
— Miles Bridges (@MilesBridges) January 21, 2021
Another live look in at @CollinSexton02 tonight… pic.twitter.com/tLTdjoanyd
— Larry Nance Jr (@Larrydn22) January 21, 2021
Naaa Collin is Buggin right now!!
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) January 21, 2021
Warned a lot of people about Sexton a while ago…btw J.B got the Cavs playing some inspiring basketball! Carry on…
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) January 21, 2021
Collin Sexton in OT vs. the Nets: pic.twitter.com/2vVZbPRWx1
— ESPN (@espn) January 21, 2021
Collin Sexton just single-handedly lit $114 million on fire. my god.
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 21, 2021
we should have known the moment this happenedpic.twitter.com/wwz5s25v6H
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 21, 2021