In a preseason game against the New York Knicks, Jordan Poole put on a scoring clinic and tied the franchise record.

The former Golden State Warriors guard led his team to an easy victory with 41 points on 10-for-19 shooting (including 6-for-12 from 3-point range) in just 27 minutes of action. A Wizards player has not scored that many points since the year 2000.

Poole’s 41 points were the same as the record established by Michael Jordan back in 2001.

Poole has averaged 23.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 2.3 assists in 23 minutes per game thus far in the preseason.

The 24-year-old was part of a trade package that included Chris Paul and was sent to the Wizards at the beginning of July.

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Time spent with the Warriors was a great experience for Jordan Poole, who says, “I got to learn from the best of the best.”

“Golden State, their picture is already painted,” Jordan Poole stated in an interview with The Athletic. “Other groups have already been around for a while, or they have a solid basis upon which to build.

But it was awesome because I got to study under the greatest minds in the field. “That’s the challenge,” he elaborated. To paraphrase one author, “the challenge is learning and applying what you took and trying to build everything up from the common denominators of what you do know, what you took from different teams, different age groups, different areas, and different coaches,” and “then applying what you think is needed or what you’ve asked or what will help and seeing what masterpiece comes out of that.”