The Strange List of 50 Point Games

[slamminsammya]

Behold this monstrosity: Most 50 Point Games in the NBA

I wanted to start a discussion about this particular basketball trivia. It is hard to score 50 in the NBA. Really Hard. Some highlights:

• The immortal Corey Brewer dropped 50 on 4/11/14 against the Rockets
• Andre Miller had 52 back in 2010 against the Mavericks
• Tony Delk
• Dana Barros

A lot of the older players I am not familiar with, but there are 58 players who had exactly one game with 50 points. Wild!

 

[jmm57]

Tracy Murray was always the one that shocked me growing up.

 

[OurF'ingCity]

More surprising to me are some of the multi-game people on that list. Would not have guessed/totally did not remember that Antawn Jamison scored 50 twice and Jamal Crawford scored 50 3 times.

 

[Sam Ray Not]

Antawn Jamison scored 50 twice

In back to back games!

 

[ifmanis5]

Shareef Abdur-Rahim quietly had 8 pretty damn solid NBA seasons.

 

[snowmanny]

The Barros one was the day Pitino traded him out of town, right?

 

[slamminsammya]

Naw, he dropped 50 in 1995 when he was with the sixers.

 

[TheRooster]

Barros, Murray and Delk were either lights out shooters or the kind of streaky shooters that could get hot and go off. Andre Miller is really surprising.

 

[slamminsammya]

Yea, Millers always been a pass first guy. But I have always loved the way he uses his ass as a point guard. Its a lost art nowadays, although Marcus Smart knows what to do with his bum.

 

[DJnVa]

Willie Burton scored 53 for the same Sixers team that Barros was on. And he did it on only 19 FGA.

 

[bakahump]

Even stranger, (After doing the research for the Bill Russell Thread) Bill Russell, one of the top 10 players of all time (Did we finalize this LOL) never scored 40.

 

[Sam Ray Not]

Dating myself by remembering the Mike Newlin game v. the Cs in '79...

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/197912160NJN.html