Lou Williams questions the legitimacy of Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game, comparing it to Kobe Bryant’s 81-point performance.
When it comes to Kobe Bryant's greatest games, many focus on his 81-point game, but his 62-point outburst a month earlier was his most impressive.
On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks. The game, played in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in front of about 4,000 fans, didn’t get the hoopla it probably deserved. In fact, it was not even mentioned in the Deseret News on March 3 or 4.
James Harden sitting at fourth place on the all-time leaderboard for most 50-point games makes plenty of sense. He's been perhaps the NBA's most dangerous one-on-one scorer for more than a decade now. He has three scoring titles. These are the traits one would expect out of a 50-point scorer.
Only LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan joined the club at a younger age. All five players became one of the eight players in NBA history to score 30,000
Los Angeles Clippers star point guard James Harden could make history should he mirror his most recent performance one more time in his career, which all signs say he has a great chance of doing as soon as this season.
James Harden delivered another 50-point game Wednesday night, putting on a throwback performance in the Clippers' new arena. The All-Star guard reached that total for the first time with Los Angeles and the 24th time in his career,
Giannis Antetokounmpo eclipsed 20,000 career points in the Bucks' 137-107 victory over the Mavericks on Wednesday night, making him the 52nd player in NBA history to do so.
Harden stole the spotlight in the Clippers’ 123-115 win over the red-hot Pistons on Wednesday night, delivering a scorching 50-point performance.