NBA Stats: Players with 50-point games

On March 7, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook tallied 58 points in a 126-121 loss to the Portland Trailblazers. It was the 10th time this season that a player scored 50 or more points in a game; it was Westbrook’s second time this season and third in his career.

With his third career 50-point game, Westbrook became the 29th player since 1963-64 to have three or more career 50-point games. Here’s a look at the Top 10 for most career 50-point games since 1963.

Michael Jordan, 31
Wilt Chamberlain, 30
Kobe Bryant, 25
Rick Barry, 14
Allen Iverson, 11
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 10
LeBron James, 10
Bernard King, 8
Dominique Wilkins, 7
Adrian Dantley, 6
Pete Maravich, 6

With the Thunder losing the game where Westbrook scored 58, it was the second time in his career that Westbrook’s team lost when he scored 50+. He became the 14th player since 1963 to score 50 or more points in two or more games where his team lost. Jordan tops this list with eight games where his team lost when he scored 50 or more points. Others who saw their teams lose two or more games when they scored 50+ points: Kobe and Wilt (7), Iverson (5), Bernard King (4), Bob McAdoo and Dominique Wilkins (3), and Jabbar, Tiny Archibald, Adrian Dantley, LeBron, Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Redd and Westbrook, each with two.

Since the 1964 playoffs, teams that had a player score 50 or more points in a game have won 22 games and lost 5. Of those 27 games, Jordan, again, tops the list. He had eight 50-point games in the playoffs. Iverson is second with three playoff games, followed by Jerry West with two. Of the five losses, Jordan had two of them, with Ray Allen, Kobe and Billy Cunningham each scoring 50 or more points in a playoff games were their team lost.

 

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