Career 30, 40, 50, 60 point games in NBA History

[Psileas]

lol at wilt in playoffs. goes to show how much you should respect his ppg

Still #5 in 40 pointers and #2 in 50 pointers while playing 2/3 of his games in his non high scoring seasons. How sucky...

If anything, it shows you why he was a better scorer than his average indicates.

[WillC]

LOL at all the idiots in this thread who fail to realise that there was one less playoff round back when Wilt played. Also, the first round was best of 5 back then.

So the number of 40+ (etc) point games in the playoffs is irrelevant.

It's an unfair comparison.

Nice try though

[KayHaven]

What about Ray Allens 50pt playoff game?

[RobertdeMeijer]

Rick Barry's high amount of 40 point games as compared to his 30 point games; I wonder how much that had to do with his attitude.

[LikeABosh]

Lebron with just 2 less 40+ point playoff games than Kobe

[Deuce Bigalow]

What about Ray Allens 50pt playoff game?

Added. I knew I missed one of those 50pt playoff games.

[Deuce Bigalow]

LOL at all the idiots in this thread who fail to realise that there was one less playoff round back when Wilt played. Also, the first round was best of 5 back then.

So the number of 40+ (etc) point games in the playoffs is irrelevant.

It's an unfair comparison.

Nice try though

Wilt played in 160 playoff games still. Just saying. Jordan played in 179 for comparison.

[julizaver]

Wilt played in 160 playoff games still. Just saying. Jordan played in 179 for comparison.

Again Jordan was a scorer his whole career. Wilt was a scorer who intentionally cut his scoring after leading the league in his first 7 years.
Furthermore even in his scoring years his scoring goes down in playoffs but it was because Wilt need to do everything on court not just scoring points for his team to win. If you have read what Cousy after game 7 in 62 EDF you will understand this. Both Russell and Wilt played great and have similar stat numbers but if you look at Wilt's 50 ppg average comparing to his 22 points you can say that Russell shut down Wilt. In fact Wilt was praised after the game for playing terrific defensive game by his opponents.

And I am not diminishing Jordan's achievements as he had all the rights to claim that he is the best basketball player ever.

However the point I wanted to make was that just citing the numbers of games played in that particular case is irrelevant - a better comparison will be to check the percentage of 30, 40, 50pts games in wilt's scoring years against the percentage of Jordan's.

[Deuce Bigalow]

Again Jordan was a scorer his whole career. Wilt was a scorer who intentionally cut his scoring after leading the league in his first 7 years.
Furthermore even in his scoring years his scoring goes down in playoffs but it was because Wilt need to do everything on court not just scoring points for his team to win. If you have read what Cousy after game 7 in 62 EDF you will understand this. Both Russell and Wilt played great and have similar stat numbers but if you look at Wilt's 50 ppg average comparing to his 22 points you can say that Russell shut down Wilt. In fact Wilt was praised after the game for playing terrific defensive game by his opponents.

And I am not diminishing Jordan's achievements as he had all the rights to claim that he is the best basketball player ever.

However the point I wanted to make was that just citing the numbers of games played in that particular case is irrelevant - a better comparison will be to check the percentage of 30, 40, 50pts games in wilt's scoring years against the percentage of Jordan's.

Well you can't compare them at all because Wilt's era isn't as good as Jordan's. And I know about him changing roles in the mid 60s from an offensive player to defensive anchor. Even when you compare the regular season numbers ro the playoff numbers when he was the main man on offense, his scoring dropped. Anyways when I looked at the numbers that people had for Wilt's 30 point playoff games, I saw one had Wilt at 40 and another at 42. Do you know how much he has?

[Deuce Bigalow]

Rick Barry's high amount of 40 point games as compared to his 30 point games; I wonder how much that had to do with his attitude.

I found out how many Rick Barry had and added it on the list. He had 48 30 point playoff games which is a high amount and corresponds with his high amount of 40 point playoff games.

[Nezty]

I'm curious to know the teams W-L when the player goes for that many points.

[Deuce Bigalow]

I'm curious to know the teams W-L when the player goes for that many points.

I found the W-L record of 50 point regular season games

A player has scored 50 points 430 times in the regular season in NBA history

Team record: 313-117 (.728 W-L%)

415 times before Feb. 7. 2009.
302-113 (.728 W-L%)

http://www.apbr.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1968

Here are the W-L numbers of some of the all time leaders, the while list is in the link above.

Wilt Chamberlain 118 (81-37) .686
Michael Jordan 31 (23-8) .742
Kobe Bryant 24 (17-7) .708
Elgin Baylor 17 (15-2) .882
Rick Barry 14 (13-1) .929
Allen Iverson 11 (6-5) .545
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 10 (8-2) .800
Bernard King 8 (4-4) .500
Dominique Wilkins 7 (4-3) .571
Adrian Dantley 6 (4-2) .667
LeBron James 6 (4-2) .667
Pete Maravich 6 (6-0) 1.000
Bob Pettit 6 (6-0) 1.000
George Gervin 5 (4-1) .800
Jerry West 5 (4-1) .800

15 times since Feb. 7. 2009.
11-4 (.733 W-L%)

[Deuce Bigalow]

30 ppg seasons
Michael Jordan -- 8
Wilt Chamberlain -- 7
Oscar Robertson -- 6
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- 4
Jerry West -- 4
Allen Iverson -- 4
Kobe Bryant -- 3
Bob McAdoo -- 3
Adrian Dantley -- 3
Rick Barry -- 2
Lebron James -- 2
Elgin Baylor -- 2
George Gervin -- 2

30 ppg playoffs
Michael Jordan -- 12
Jerry West -- 7
Kobe Bryant -- 5
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- 4
Wilt Chamberlain -- 4
Elgin Baylor -- 4
Allen Iverson -- 4
Tracy McGrady -- 4
Shaquille O'Neal -- 3
Lebron James -- 3
George Mikan -- 2
Hakeem Olajuwon -- 2
Oscar Robertson -- 2
Bob McAdoo -- 2
Reggie Miller -- 2

[fpliii]

30 ppg seasons
Michael Jordan -- 8
Wilt Chamberlain -- 7
Oscar Robertson -- 6
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- 4
Jerry West -- 4
Allen Iverson -- 4
Kobe Bryant -- 3
Bob McAdoo -- 3
Adrian Dantley -- 3
Rick Barry -- 2
Lebron James -- 2
Elgin Baylor -- 2
George Gervin -- 2

30 ppg playoffs
Michael Jordan -- 12
Jerry West -- 7
Kobe Bryant -- 5
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- 4
Wilt Chamberlain -- 4
Elgin Baylor -- 4
Allen Iverson -- 4
Tracy McGrady -- 4
Shaquille O'Neal -- 3
Lebron James -- 3
George Mikan -- 2
Hakeem Olajuwon -- 2
Oscar Robertson -- 2
Bob McAdoo -- 2
Reggie Miller -- 2

Great stuff! I'll see if I have anything to contribute to this thread when I have a chance. Do you have lists for 30,40 ppg Finals series too?

[Deuce Bigalow]

Great stuff! I'll see if I have anything to contribute to this thread when I have a chance. Do you have lists for 30,40 ppg Finals series too?

I'll try to find out the finals stats if I can and post it. I know I saw somewhere the top 10 most finals points somewhere but I dont remember. My list of 40pt rs games is a little short though.