Pico Rivera’s Armenian Mesrobian School is back in the news after one of its players broke California’s high school boys basketball scoring record. On Thursday night, senior Nick Khatchikian dropped 102 points.

But the film from the game cannot hide just how shambolic this record-breaking performance was — and how much Mesrobian is spinning this story to try to make it not seem premeditated.

Khatchikian scored his 102nd point with 2:17 remaining in the third quarter before getting substituted out for the rest of the game. At that point, the score read Mesrobian 102, Waverly School of Pasadena 7. Video of the record-breaking play shows Mesrobian’s Erik Grigoryan grabbing a defensive rebound while Khatchikian is already out at half-court, cherry-picking behind any Waverly defenders. While two Waverly players race back as the ball gets to Khatchikian, neither is able to prevent the record-breaking basket, which you can see below.

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.@KingJames Yo Bron, here is a short clip of the 102 point High School performance from last night. All I could get while doing PA for their games. I must have said his name (Nick Khatchikian) 50 time. #nickkhatchikian #mesrobian pic.twitter.com/KMsf5wIyAU

The stats from the game are up on MaxPreps, and they are absurd: Khatchikian ended up taking 99 shots on the night, making 48 of them en route to the 102-point performance. His teammates combined to take just eight other attempts. (Khatchikian’s twin brother, Dylan, didn’t take a single shot but tied a national record with 35 assists and finished with a........

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