List of National Basketball Association single-game scoring leaders


This is a complete listing of National Basketball Association players who have scored 60 or more points in a game.
This feat has been accomplished 74 times in NBA history. Twenty-seven different players have scored 60 or more points in a game, while just six players have joined the 70 point club. Only six players have scored 60 or more points on more than one occasion: Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Elgin Baylor, James Harden, and Damian Lillard. Chamberlain holds the single-game scoring record, having scored 100 points in a game in 1962.
Jordan and Baylor are the only players to score at least 60 points in a game during the playoffs, each accomplishing this once.
The youngest player to achieve this is Devin Booker and the oldest is Kobe Bryant.

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