Wembanyama and Knicks guard Mikal Bridges, who scored a season-high 41 points, became the first pair of opposing players with 40 or more on Christmas since 1961, when Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor and Oscar Robertson each hit that mark in a Lakers victory over Cincinnati.

No player had ever turned in a combination of as many points, rebounds, assists and blocks on Christmas as Wembanyama did Wednesday.

Radio City had nothing on the Christmas spectacular that Mikal Bridges provided for the New York Knicks on Wednesday afternoon. Future narrators of scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long,