Heat: Honest truth. Greatest offensive performance of the modern era.

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In a single game, from 1963-64 to 2013-14, requiring Points >= 60 and Free Throw Attempts <= 12, sorted by descending Points.Query Results

 Age is Years-Days ▪ An asterisk (*) after the date indicates a playoff game  · Glossary  · SHARE  · Embed  · CSV  · PRE  · LINK  · ?

Rk
Player
Age
Pos
Date
Tm

Opp

GS
MP
FG
FGA
FG%
2P
2PA
2P%
3P
3PA
3P%
FT
FTA
FT%
ORB
DRB
TRB
AST
STL
BLK
TOV
PF
PTS
GmSc

1
Kobe Bryant
28-205
G
2007-03-16
LAL

POR
W
1
50
23
39
.590
15
27
.556
8
12
.667
11
12
.917
1
6
7
3
3
0
2
3
65
50.9

2
Michael Jordan
29-334
G-F
1993-01-16
CHI

ORL
L
1
47
27
49
.551
26
44
.591
1
5
.200
9
11
.818
4
2
6
1
5
0
2
5
64
44.8

3
Rick Barry
29-363
F
1974-03-26
GSW

POR
W


30








4
5
.800








64


4
Carmelo Anthony
29-240
F
2014-01-24
NYK

CHA
W
1
39
23
35
.657
17
24
.708
6
11
.545
10
10
1.000
1
12
13
0
0
0
0
1
62
50.6

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the media is going to ejaculate furiously to LeBron's 61 point game until at least may, tho

[monosylab1k]

He MISSED 11 free throws!

:croflmao :croflmao

But ded, it was just a LITTLE WEED!

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the media is going to ejaculate furiously to LeBron's 61 point game until at least may, tho

Only because of last june. You keep him under your heel there and you're big man on campus. Your Duncan is safe & secure living the high life, sans the bag, your Pop is smokin' big fat Cubans, & I'm glued to the Lazy Boy.

[313]

Only because of last june. You keep him under your heel there and you're big man on campus. Your Duncan is safe & secure living the high life, sans the bag, your Pop is smokin' big fat Cubans, & I'm glued to the Lazy Boy.

Hopefully we can lessen the pain by ringing this year. It will be a tall task getting out of the West, however. Let alone winning the Finals.

[Thread]

Hopefully we can lessen the pain by ringing this year. It will be a tall task getting out of the West, however. Let alone winning the Finals.

That won't lessen the pain. Ringing in '14 and 6 are stand alone en ies. You'll never get over last June. And you shouldn't. Any Spurs Fan worth his salt will take that to his grave. You've been touched, scarred, educated. You know it all now. Before you only knew victory & purity. Now you know boundless pain.

& in a sense you'll be better men for it. Your count will always be light 1, but, thru this endless trial you've had an awakening in parts of your mind and heart and soul you never realized was living within your countenance.

Now, now you know.

[Sean Cagney]

Kobe scored 65 against the Blazers in 2007. He took less than 15 FTA if I remember it right.

LOL Kobe always haunted that poor Portland team. I bet fans there to this day still hate him.

[Calispursfan11]

Easy explanation for the outburst tbh. MKG was guarding him. Recall, a 50 year old MJ beat MKG's ass easily one on one. Lebron better have scored 60 plus against this soft ass nig.

[midnightpulp]

In a single game, from 1963-64 to 2013-14, requiring Points >= 60 and Free Throw Attempts <= 12, sorted by descending Points.Query Results

 Age is Years-Days ▪ An asterisk (*) after the date indicates a playoff game  · Glossary  · SHARE  · Embed  · CSV  · PRE  · LINK  · ?

Rk
Player
Age
Pos
Date
Tm

Opp

GS
MP
FG
FGA
FG%
2P
2PA
2P%
3P
3PA
3P%
FT
FTA
FT%
ORB
DRB
TRB
AST
STL
BLK
TOV
PF
PTS
GmSc

1
Kobe Bryant
28-205
G
2007-03-16
LAL

POR
W
1
50
23
39
.590
15
27
.556
8
12
.667
11
12
.917
1
6
7
3
3
0
2
3
65
50.9

2
Michael Jordan
29-334
G-F
1993-01-16
CHI

ORL
L
1
47
27
49
.551
26
44
.591
1
5
.200
9
11
.818
4
2
6
1
5
0
2
5
64
44.8

3
Rick Barry
29-363
F
1974-03-26
GSW

POR
W


30








4
5
.800








64


4
Carmelo Anthony
29-240
F
2014-01-24
NYK

CHA
W
1
39
23
35
.657
17
24
.708
6
11
.545
10
10
1.000
1
12
13
0
0
0
0
1
62
50.6

Pretty rare feat.

What's impressive about Lebron's (and Carmelo's) performances are the number of shot attempts. Kirb's Portland game was awesome. No hate there.

[apalisoc_9]

[spurraider21]

i know we're just talking reg season here, but Dirk's game 1 vs OKC in 2011 was arguably the best I can remember. a lot of free throws in that one, but he wasn't missing from the field. something like 12-14

[HI-FI]

didn't watch but props to Lebron. i'll check this one out later on league pass.

[SpursFan86]

Jordan's 63 against the '86 Celtics (@Boston...they had the best home record of all-time that year btw) was far more impressive. Those '86 Celtics were one of the greatest teams of all-time, and were amazing at home that year. For a 22 year-old sop re player to go in there and drop 63 points is insane. Much more impressive than a 61 point game (albeit with noticeably more efficiency) in the regular season at home against the Bobcats.

[Juggity]

Jordan's 63 against the '86 Celtics (@Boston...they had the best home record of all-time that year btw) was far more impressive. Those '86 Celtics were one of the greatest teams of all-time, and were amazing at home that year. For a 22 year-old sop re player to go in there and drop 63 points is insane. Much more impressive than a 61 point game (albeit with noticeably more efficiency) in the regular season at home against the Bobcats.

...Jordan lost that one, though. Gotta win for the points to matter.

[Pelicans78]

...Jordan lost that one, though. Gotta win for the points to matter.

LOL, doesn't take away from what he did that game against an all-time great team while playing for a medicore team. The Celtics team pretty much cruised to a championship.

[Budkin]

Tom Chambers tbh

[jeebus]

there's at least a dozen players this season that have had better games.

[AchillesHeel]

Kobe scored 65 against the Blazers in 2007. He took less than 15 FTA if I remember it right.

65 points on 11-12 from the FT line, so he had the same amount of FTs as Lebron.
23-39 shooting
8-12 from 3

7 reb 3 ast 3 stl

And it was a close game and he hit some epic clutch shots, so it's not like he padded his stats being up 20 in the 4th.

[Juggity]

LOL, doesn't take away from what he did that game against an all-time great team while playing for a medicore team. The Celtics team pretty much cruised to a championship.

tbh, that game is often considered a turning point in Jordan's career, where he realized that no herculean effort he could make by himself would ever put him over the hump. That is, he needed help to make it to the top. The fact that it was a loss is quite significant, and I'm sure that Jordan (a guy who was all and only about winning), would say the same. A great performance, but a stepping stone/learning experience to later greatness nonetheless.

[Wiz]

T-Macs 60 point game was better

[AchillesHeel]

Pretty rare feat.

What's impressive about Lebron's (and Carmelo's) performances are the number of shot attempts. Kirb's Portland game was awesome. No hate there.

And Lebron could have taken even less shots, 2 of his buckets came off put-backs from his own missed layups.

[gnsf0946]

tbh, that game is often considered a turning point in Jordan's career, where he realized that no herculean effort he could make by himself would ever put him over the hump. That is, he needed help to make it to the top. The fact that it was a loss is quite significant, and I'm sure that Jordan (a guy who was all and only about winning), would say the same. A great performance, but a stepping stone/learning experience to later greatness nonetheless.

In the Jordan at 50 interview he said that exact thing, he would've rather win with 20 points than lose with 63 (or something along those lines, can't remember the exact words he used)

[resistanze]

Kobe against Portland was probably the best performance I remember.

[Seventyniner]

, I forgot about Melo's game.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...401240NYK.html

On only 10 FTs (but 2 more shots).

Melo: 23/35 FG, 6/11 3FG, 10/10 FT, 13 REB (1 off), 0 AST, 0 TOV, 62 PTS
LeBron: 22/33 FG, 8/10 3FG, 9/12 FT, 7 REB (3 off), 5 AST, 2 TOV, 61 PTS

Very close. I had to dig through the play-by-play to see how many possessions they each used.
Melo: 35 FGA, 3 for FTs (3 two-shot fouls, 4 FTs were technicals that don't use possessions), 39 total
LeBron: 33 FGA, 5 for FTs (5 two-shot fouls, 2 and-1s that don't use possessions), 2 TOV, 40 total

Melo's numbers were very slightly better (1 more point, 1 fewer possession used, more rebounds), but LeBron had 5 more assists and didn't get 4 techs to help him out.

[SpurSwag]

Not taking anything away from his night, but this is by no mean the greatest offensive performance of the modern era. You could argue it isn't even the best of the season with Melo's explosion against Charlotte. Personally that was the best offensive game of the season and Kobe's 81 is hands down the greatest scoring performance of the modern era and arguably all time. I dont' care that he got a good amount of free throws, he scored ing 81 points

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I can see get jollies on the small numbers:::5, 4, 17, 16, 2, 1, but, this is just Media driven nonsense.