Most 99 Point Games In NBA History | StatMuse (2024)

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Wilt Chamberlain had the most games with 99+ points, with 1 game.

Wilt Chamberlain had the most games with 90+ points, with 1 game.

In NBA history, 10 players have achieved this feat on 14 occasions (Wilt Chamberlain had six such games). Below is a look at every 70-point game in NBA history.

Wilt Chamberlain had the most games with 77+ points, with 2 games.

LeBron James is the leading scorer in NBA history. LeBron James has scored the most career regular season points in NBA history.

Wilt Chamberlain unsurprisingly holds the record for most points scored in a season with 4,029, which he did back in 1961-62 with the Philadelphia Warriors. Michael Jordan is the only other player to score at least 3,000 in a season, a feat Chamberlain accomplished three times.

The Eastern All-Stars also set a new record for the most points scored by a team in an All-Star Game, with a total of 211 points. This was the first time a team scored over 200 points in the history of the NBA All-Star Game.

Kobe Bryant and Wilt Chamberlain were tied for the most games with 80+ points, with 1 game.

Take a look back at LBJs career-high 61-point performance vs the Bobcats on March 3, 2014, with some sound over the years on him being in the zone that night.

What was Michael Jordan's highest scoring game? ›

Michael Jordan posted his most points in a game against the Cavaliers on March 28, 1990, with 69 points.

3/28/90: Bulls vs Cavs - MJ scores career-high 69 | NBA.com. This content is not available.

81 – Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers vs. Toronto Raptors (Jan. 22, 2006) Bryant's 81-point game is almost as famous as Chamberlain's 100.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players in NBA history to surpass 38,000 career points.

Using his repertoire of fadeaway jumpers, finger rolls and “Dipper dunks,” Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game between his Philadelphia Warriors and the New York Knicks.

Wilt Chamberlain has dropped the most points in a game with a field-goal percentage of 100.0, with 42 points against the Baltimore Bullets on February 24, 1967.

Decades after his record was set, many NBA teams did not even average 100 points, as fewer field goals per game were being attempted. The closest any player has gotten to 100 points was the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who scored 81 in a 122–104 win over the Toronto Raptors on January 22, 2006.