I think the 100 point game is in jeopardy with the three point line. I think a guy would need 60 at the half to do it, but in late season game a hot guy vs a tankathon roster could get close. But, other than Kobe I am no sure a guy exists to shamlessly cast up enough shots to get there.
the 56 game record is one I want to see broken, but I doubt pitchers will face condemnation for walking a guy the way they did in Sacred Joe's day. With te current atmosphere where everyone is a HR hitter I doubt we will see people get to 30 very often.
Wilt got there with, reportedly, his teammates eagerly feeding him the ball on fast breaks and basically every possession. It was a team focus to have him put up a ridiculous, monster number. Kobe got 81 on a night when everything was falling but even so only shot 60% from the field, and the whole team only had 18 assists so he was trying to do it all without much help. I think a serious threat to that number would have to come from a center who could score at will, like prime Shaq but with good enough FT% that he isn't routinely hacked, and where his teammates' offensive focus is based wholly on getting it to him in the post like Wilt.
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numbers: Wilt has 6 of the top 11 single-game scoring totals in NBA history, 12 of the top 19, and 23 of the top 41. Wilt has:
- 9 of the 14 games with 58 points
- 8 of the 12 games with 59 points
- 3 of the 12 games with 60 points (Kobe has 2, nearly a decade apart)
- 6 of the 13 games with 61 points
- 6 of the 9 games with 62 points
- 2 of the 6 games with 63 points
- 0 of the 3 games with 64 points
- 3 of the 4 games with 65 points
- The only 66-point game, all 4 of the 67-point games, and 1 of 2 68-point games.
On that list of top-115 single-game efforts (57+ points), here is the leaderboard for who appears most often:
52: Wilt Chamberlain
7: Michael Jordan
7: Kobe Bryant
4: Elgin Baylor
3: Rick Barry
2: Lebron James
2: Allen Iverson
2: Russell Westbrook
2: Purvis Short
2: Dominique Wilkins
That makes a pretty strong case for how unbreakable the record is.