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NBA Players With Most 60 Point Games
It’s hard to say if this is going to be the first and last time LeBron James reaches 60 points in a game, but it’s rare for a player to do it more than once. Only four: Elgin Baylor, Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan have been able to do it.
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Longest 35 Points or More Scoring Streaks in NBA History
Right now LeBron James is on a 3-game streak of 35 points or more, something that has been done by three other players this season, and Kevin Durant doing it twice. However, it isn’t remotely close to LeBron’s longest such streak, and there are a few NBA greats with impressive scoring stretches like Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
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Most Points Scored in the NBA All-Star Game
The 2014 NBA All-Star game will be the 63rd edition of the best exhibition event in North American sports, as a few players will try to join Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain as the only players with 40 points or more in the event. With Kevin Durant having the year he’s having, and LeBron James obviously capable, we might see a third player join that extremely short list.
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Players With the Most NBA Scoring Titles
Unless something completely unexpected happens, Kevin Durant is going to finish as the NBA’s scoring champion for the fourth time in five years, becoming only the fifth player in league history to finish on top of the scoring charts so many times, joining Allen Iverson, George Gervin, Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan.
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Four-Time NBA MVP Winners
It’s not official yet, but the NBA aren’t going to give the 2013 regular season MVP award to anyone else, so LeBron James can now set himself apart from Moses Malone, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (who have won three), joining an elite club including only himself, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Only Michael Jordan Can Beat What Kobe Bryant is Doing This Season
You don’t have to like Kobe Bryant as a person or as a player to appreciate his incredible 2012-2013 NBA season, which is extremely special considering it’s his 17th NBA season, while playing more than all but four other players around the league. Only Michael Jordan has done this well, not to mention better, at the age of 34 while still playing so much every night.
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Kobe Bryant Moves to Fourth on All-Time Scoring List
With 30 points in a much needed win for the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant moved up another spot on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, surpassing Wilt Chamberlain and ending up, for now, with 31,415 points, leaving him behind only Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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NBA Players That Caused Rule Changes
It doesn’t take a great player to make rules change in the NBA, but quite often, it has to do with someone quite famous, like Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O’Neal, Michael Jordan and in more recent years, someone like Kevin Durant.
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8 NBA & NFL Players During Their College Days
It’s easy to forget that student-athletes, especially the big stars of those student athletes who gain a lot of attention from the NBA and the NFL from the first snap and dribble they take in college uniform, had an actual college life, more or less. Michael Jordan dressed awkwardly, Wilt Chamberlain read books between beginning his 20,000 legacy and Robin & Brook Lopez were always together.