How difficult is it for an NBA player to score 45 points in a single Finals game?

The NBA league has a lot of influence around the world, and a lot of data in the NBA is a curse that is difficult to break. Some excellent players, even if they perform well in the regular season, but when they reach the finals or playoffs, they are like 'popping balloons' that quickly hold back. And there is a data that is difficult to do in the finals, that is, to score 45+ data in a single game in the finals, which few people have been able to do throughout history.

Super scoring champion Kobe Bryant has 0 in his career, and a professional pitcher like Durant is also 0 times. But there are always people who are exceptions, and there are two players who even have 3 finals 45+ results in the finals.

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Kobe Bryant is famous for scoring on the basketball court, and his strength is undoubted, and in his own era, Kobe Bryant is almost the dominant existence. But even such Kobe Bryant still did not score 45+ in a single game in the finals. And Durant is known as the 'Grim Reaper' by fans, with no offensive means to solve, and he is also very strong in singles, and watching Durant play is a thrilling enjoyment.

But the 'Grim Reaper' didn't get this statistic, his highest score was 43 points, in fact, this can't be blamed entirely on Durant, after all, he only played 14 finals games in his career, and if he came a few more times, he might be able to break through himself.

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In fact, in the history milestone of the NBA Finals, there are only 9 people who can achieve this data, they are Elgin Baylor, Chamberlain, Curry, Iverson, Bob Pettit, James, Rick Barry, Jerry West and Jordan. Each of these 9 people has a score of 45+, and only 2 of these 9 people have achieved 45+ results in the finals 3 times, they are Jerry West and Jordan, these two are known as 'monsters'.

Jerry West.

In fact, his fame is not very high, but his strength is not weak, and he laid the foundation for three 45+ results in the finals. Although Jerry West only won 1 NBA championship ring, he has strong scoring ability and high shooting skills, and in his era, Jerry West was also considered a leader in the NBA.

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It's not surprising that Jordan can get this result, and a lot of Jordan's data has been crushing until now. Jordan's 3 45+ scores in the finals are points! It can be seen how difficult it is for Jordan to get this result, after all, the finals are a star-studded game, and every player can only play after a lot of tempering.

To be able to dominate the crowd under many excellent players, it is impossible without outstanding strength.

The difficulty is particularly large, the reason is that the defensive intensity of the finals is too great, and it is already a superstar to score 45 points.

It's very difficult, a total of three people have done it, namely Iverson, James, Jordan, these three are all top stars, you can imagine how difficult it is to score 45 points in a single game, all of them are not simple.

It's very difficult. Because when it comes to the finals, they are the two best teams of the year. And they will defend the opponent in a targeted manner, and it will be very difficult to score every point.

In the history of the NBA Finals, there have been a total of 6 players who have scored more than 50 points: Elgin Baylor (1962): 61 points, Rick Barry (1967) 55 points, Michael Jordan (1993) 55 points, Jerry West (1969) 53 points, LeBron James (2018) 51 points, and Bob Pettit (1958) 50 points. In other words, in the past 26 years, only Jordan and James have been players who have scored 50+ in the Finals.

Elgin Baylor scored 61 points in a single game in the 1962 Finals, but he was a rather tragic figure, he entered the Finals 8 times, but never won the championship, and was called the "King of 8" by fans. He played as a forward and averaged points and rebounds per game in the 1961-62 Lakers, and was a very good player, but in the Finals, he was never able to lead the team to win the championship, even if he won the record for the highest score in a single game in the Finals, he was unable to recover.

If memory serves, in the decades-long history of the NBA, there has been only one person who has scored more than 60 points in the Finals, and that is Lakers legend Elgin Baylor. Time is still in the sixties of the last century, the Celtics led by Russell and the Lakers led by Baylor, West, Chamberlain and others had a "protracted" "yellow-green battle", in the fifth game of the finals in 1962, "Baylor" has scored 40 points in the first three quarters, and in the fourth quarter when both sides were exhausted, Elgin Baylor was still full of firepower, scoring 21 points, and 61 points in a single game led the Lakers to win the game 126:121.

But unfortunately, although Elgin Baylor won this game superbly, he still lost to the Celtics in this series. Elgin Baylor lost eight Finals times and was named the first generation of "Uncrowned King", while his teammate Jerry West was named the only losing MVP in NBA history. West also won the first game of the 1969 Finals with an excellent 53 points, but lost by two points in the seventh game and still did not cross the Celtics hurdle in the entire series.

But apart from Elgin Baylor's 61 points, no player in NBA history has been able to score 60 points on the Finals stage, and even the great "basketball god" Michael Jordan has only fixed his Finals scoring record at 55 points. In the fourth game of the 1993 Finals, in the face of the new MVP Barkley, Jordan scored 55 points, averaging more than 40 points per game in the series, proving who is the real MVP with his strength. Among the active players, only LeBron James scored 51 points in the 18 Finals, but two fists were difficult to beat with four hands, and the Cavaliers led by James could not escape the doom of sweeping.

A complete list of personal records in the previous finals:

Series total: 284, Baylor (7), Lakers.

1962 single-game scores: 61 points, Baylor, Lakers.

April 14, 1962 Half Time Score: 35 points, Jordan, Bulls.

June 3, 1992 Single quarter score: 25 points, with Saiah Thomas, Pistons.

19 June 1988 OT scored: 9, Havi Risek, Celtic.

May 10, 1974; Bill Lambier, Pistons.

7 June 1990; Angie, Trailblazer.

June 5, 1992 average score: 41, Jordan, Bulls.

1993 vs. Suns, 246 points in 6 games.

As the stage of world basketball, the NBA is star-studded, with comprehensive skills and abilities, and many people have achieved a lot of results, such as the championship of the Finals! The Finals are the biggest basketball feast of a season in the NBA, because in the Finals we can see two of the strongest teams in a single season play a unique and shocking matchup, and in such a game, we can also see the shining stars of each team on the stage.

In fact, in the regular season, it is relatively easy to score 50+, the Warriors Klay Thompson once scored 60+ in 3 quarters, and was placed in a seat for a whole quarter in the fourth quarter, if he continues to fight in the fourth quarter, will it reach 90+? It's also not impossible! However, getting a high score of 50 points in the finals is not something that can be done easily.

After all, the Finals is a game full of the toughest opponents, so it is already a great honor to be able to get close to 50 points, and in a game against the Raptors at the peak of this season, Curry scored his first 47 points in the Finals as the leading main player, which is really rare, but it still did not reach the difficult 50 points.

The other person is James, in the 2018 Finals against the Warriors, without James' explosive breakthrough, there would be no such results. In this desperate state, James also scored his first 51 points in the Finals when he was injured in the eye by Green, which directly shocked the league's history. Kobe Bryant congratulated and praised such a difficult result.

It can be seen that James's ability is very extraordinary!

The god of basketball - Jordan, on the Bulls team, he and players such as Pippen have built the strongest dynasty in history that cannot be replicated. In the fourth game of the championship of the final season with the Suns in 1993, Jordan once again entered his own amazing ** mode, although the Suns team is constantly changing tactics, but the irresistible Jordan God still scored 55 points in a single game, which is also another benchmark score in history of more than 50 points in the Finals.

Looking at the league, the first individual score in the league finals belongs to Elgin Baylor, who scored 61 points in the individual finals, occupying the first place in the individual scoring list in the finals!

On the classic night of the 1962 Finals, after six games of hard work with the Celtics, Baylor alone continued to hit the basket like a beast in this game, biting the score all the time, and that kind of basket was his world, he shot the most 46 times in a normal game, a total of 22 baskets into the basket to help him directly complete a Finals 61-point scoring miracle, he established the most terrifying scoring milestone in history, and made the Celtics retreat on the spot.

Although something like that has happened in the current NBA, basketball is not guilty, and the heart that belongs to basketball is still there!

There are six balls who have scored 50 points. I think Jordan scored the most 63-pointers.

The highest score in the finals was Jordan's 63.

Isn't it good for friends not to ask NAB questions during this period? It's not a matter of personal hobby now!

The highest score was 63 points set by Jordan.

Elgin Baylor is really an awesome character.

There are 6 players who have won 50 in the NBA Finals, and they are:

The first player was Elgin Baylor, whose 50 points were scored in '62, and he scored 61 points at the time, the second player was Rick Barry's 55 points in the Finals in '67, and the three players were Michael Jordan, who scored 55 points in a single game in the Finals in '93, and the fourth player was Jerry West, who scored 53 points in a single game in the Finals in '69, and the fifth player was LeBron James, Jr., He scored 51 points in the '18 Finals, and Bob Petit was the sixth player, who scored 50 points in the '58 Finals.

The highest score in a single game in the Finals is the data played by Elgin Baylor, which he completed in a game in the Finals of the 62 season, he scored a high score of 61 points in a single game in that Finals, and he contributed a double-double of points and rebounds per game in the Finals series that season, but it was such a statistic, and it did not help him win the championship trophy of the season at that time, as a superstar of that period, he was a more sad star, He made it to the finals many times, but he failed to do so, becoming a tragic figure, winning the data but not the results!

The holder of the record in the active finals is the first person in the active team, the first small forward in history, James, who scored 51 points in a single game in the finals in the 18th season, but because the Cavaliers' comprehensive strength is not as good as the Warriors, the team's guard star Irving also left the team before the season, which greatly reduced the comprehensive strength of the Cavaliers, even if James scored 51 points in the first Finals, he did not win the first game.

This is also a microcosm of the whole series, we all know that the Warriors have Durant, Curry, Thompson, such top stars, and there are also Green, Iguodala and other excellent instant combat forces in the team, so the Cavaliers are playing extremely hard in this series, even if the little emperor James can average 34 points, rebounds and 10 assists per game in this series, he can't win a game in this series, The Cavaliers were also swept 4-0 by the Warriors in this series.

After all, the basketball game is a five-person sport, not a competitive sport that one person can control, the little emperor James is alone in this series, without the help of his teammates, losing this series, it is a normal thing, after this season, James left the Cavaliers to the Lakers, and now the Lakers have reached the finals under the leadership of the little emperor James, and the little emperor James will use this season's championship to make up for the loss of the championship in the 18th season!