83 points for Bam Adebayo!
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Started by metmike - March 12, 2026, 11:58 p.m.

2nd highest points scored by one person in an NBA game by one person!


Bam! 83-point historic night for Adebayo in win over Wizards

The veteran big man passes his basketball idol, Kobe Bryant, for the second-highest scoring game ever in NBA history.

https://www.nba.com/news/bam-adebayo-83-point-game

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List of NBA single-game scoring leaders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NBA_single-game_scoring_leaders

 This is a complete listing of National Basketball Association players who have scored 60 or more points in a regular season game.

Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in 1962, which is the current NBA record

This feat has been accomplished 92 times in NBA history by 38 different players, while just eleven players have joined the 70-point club, with three players having scored at least 80 points. Only 10 players have scored 60 or more points on more than one occasion: Wilt Chamberlain (32 times); Kobe Bryant (6 times); Damian Lillard (5 times); Michael Jordan and James Harden (4 times); Elgin Baylor (3 times); and Karl-Anthony Towns, Devin Booker, Luka Dončić, and Stephen Curry (2 times). Chamberlain holds the single-game scoring record, having scored 100 points in a game in 1962. The youngest player to score at least 60 points in a regular season game is Devin Booker (70 points; 20 years and 145 days),[1] and the oldest is Bryant (60 points; 37 years and 234 days).[2]

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