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What is the NBA record of points by a single player in the first half? Who has it?

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There was a single game left in the 197-78 season before the playoffs. It would be the last time the Detroit Pistons played at Cobo Arena because, starting the following season, they would be using the new and spacious Pontiac Silverdome. However, the Detroit fans were not sentimental and were not planning to give the fourth-place Pistons a warm farewell in the arena that had been their home since 1961. That same night, two players, one in Detroit and another almost across the United States, made history in the NBA, scoring the most points in the first half, with a few hours of difference between the games. David Thompson On April 9, 1978, 3,482 fans enjoyed a thrilling game between the Detroit Pistons and the Denver Nuggets on a relaxed Sunday afternoon. David Thompson and George Gervin were engaged in a scoring duel for most of the year, and only 14 points separated them at the top of the league scoring chart heading into their last games that Sunday. Although the Pistons vs Nuggets ...

The Beatles are releasing their 'final' record. AI helped make it possible

Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record," decades after the band broke up LONDON -- Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon's voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the Technology was used to separate the Beatles' voices from background sounds during the making of director Pet er Jackson's 2021 documentary series, “The Beatles: Get Back." The “new” song is set to be released later this year, he said. Jackson was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,” McCartney told BBC radio. “He could separate them with AI, he’d tell the machine ‘That’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar’.” “So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record , it was a demo that John had that we work...