Luka Dončić scored 49 points and became just the fourth player in NBA history to open a season with back-to-back 40-point games, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 128–110 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night. Dončić came up just shy of a triple-double, finishing with 11 rebounds and 8 assists in another dominant performance.

After scoring 43 points in the Lakers’ opening-night loss to Golden State, Dončić delivered his highest-scoring effort yet as a Laker. He shot 14-for-23 from the field, including 5-for-12 from three-point range, and made 16 of 19 free throws. Dončić scored 23 points in the first quarter alone, matching Kobe Bryant and Kyle Kuzma for the highest-scoring opening quarter by a Laker in the past 30 years. He had 32 points by halftime and scored 7 more early in the fourth quarter to help Los Angeles pull away for good.

With 92 points through his first two games as a Laker, Dončić now holds the franchise record for most points in the first two games of a season, surpassing Hall of Famer Jerry West’s 81-point mark from 1969–70. He also passed Michael Jordan’s 91 points for the fourth-most ever by any player to start a season. Dončić is now the first player in Lakers history, and just the fourth in NBA history, joining Anthony Davis, Michael Jordan, and Wilt Chamberlain to begin a season with consecutive 40-point games.

Anthony Edwards led the Timberwolves with 31 points, while Julius Randle added 26, but Minnesota couldn’t contain Dončić or the Lakers’ offense in a rematch of last season’s first-round playoff series, which the Wolves won in five games.