Sandro Mamukelashvili makes NBA history with 34 points in 19 minutes - ESPN

SAN ANTONIO — Bewildered and in a state of disbelief, San Antonio Spurs forward Sandro Mamukelashvili walked back-and-forth half-dressed near his locker Wednesday night repeating the same words after his team's 120-105 win over the New York Knicks.

«I don't know what f---ing happened,» Mamukelashvili said. «I don't know what f---ing happened.»

With good friend and rapper Flavor Flav hyping a crowd of 18,521 that gleefully flooded Frost Bank Center with MVP chants, Mamukelashvili made NBA history by scoring the most points — a career-high 34 — in a game when playing fewer than 20 minutes since 1951-52, when minutes became official.

«I've been waiting for this day for a long time,» Mamukelashvili said. «I just can't explain how I feel right now. I feel like I'm in a dream. I manifested and prayed for it. I just waited for this day. I really had an out of body experience for a little bit there. I was like, 'Is this really happening?'»

Spurs teammates made sure of it, mobbing Mamukelashvili on the floor at the final buzzer. Dressed in a red T-shirt with his trademark clock dangling from his neck, Flavor Flav made it even more real by crashing the forward's on-court postgame interview to say, «I don't care what nobody says. My man is on fiiiiiiiirrrreee!»

Sitting one locker over from Mamukelashvili minutes after all the pandemonium on the court, teammate Jeremy Sochan asked half-jokingly whether «we can get Flavor Flav to stay» in San Antonio for a while.

Averaging 8.9 minutes for the season, Mamukelashvili didn't enter Wednesday's game until 55 seconds into the second quarter. The 25-year-old wasted little time making his presence felt. Mamukelashvili scored his first bucket on a tip-in off a Blake Wesley miss. Then, he