WASHINGTON – NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he is not worried about a scoring surge in this season’s league, crediting a growing global talent pool for the higher number of points scored.

There have been 15 50-point games by National Basketball Association players this season and six performances of 60 or more with two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid scoring 70 and Dallas guard Luka Doncic striking for 73.

But Silver said that scoring was only one point per game higher than last season, in which there were 25 50-point games, the most since the 1962-63 campaign.