what are the most points scored by one player in a basketball game and who was the player?
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NBA Wilt Chamberlain 100 points\n\nMats Wermelin of Sweden holds the Guinness Book of Records title for most points scored in a single game: he scored all of the points in a 272-0 win in a regional tournament in Stockholm at the age of 13, February 5th, 1974.\n\nThe all-time high school record is held by Danny Heater, who scored 135 for Burnsville High (WV) in a 173-43 win against Widen High on January 26th, 1960.\n\nFrank Selvy is the only person to score 100 points in an NCAA Division I game, when he scored exactly 100 for Furman against Newberry College in a 149-95 rout on February 13th, 1954. (41-66 FG, 18-22 FT) \nClarence "Bevo" Francis has the NCAA all-division record of 113 points, for Rio Grande Community College against Hillsdale College, exactly 11 days before Selvy's mark. Francis also holds the NAIA mark of 116 points for Rio against Ashland College on January 19th, 1963, but this is not recognized by the NCAA because it did not come against a four-year institution. \nAside from Francis and Selvy, no one has ever scored 100 points in an NCAA game. Furthermore, no one, including Francis and Selvy, has ever scored 100 points against a Division I school. The most ever is 72, by Kevin Bradshaw for US International University in a 186-140 loss to Loyola Marymount University on January 5th, 1991.
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whoever scores the most points
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Jason Terry with 32 points.\nDwyane Wade with 28 points.
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Is this a trick question, every single basketball fan knows he put up 63 points in only 3 quarters of play. GO KOBE
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Basketball Scoreboard
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According to basketball.com's listing of NBA records, Brent Price (Washington) hit 13 in a row from 1/15/96 to 1/19/96; Terry Mills (Detroit) also hit 13 in a row from 12/4/96 to 12/7/96.  Don't see anything about most consecutive 3 pointers hit in one single game.
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wow the ppl above me know sh**,\n\nKareem Abdul-Jabbar at 38,387 leads the nba most point ever scored.
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It is lebron James.  Kobe Bryant is the highest scorer, but is a huge ball hog.  I am a kobe fan but lebron is an all round better player. Lebron averages 7 rebounds and 6.6 assist per game and about 32 points per game.  Kobe does not averge close to that many assists or rebounds.  Also, you have to look at which player led his team to victory and the playoffs.  They are both in but the cavs (lebron james's team) is in better shape than the lakers.  To top all of this off Lebron James just had a triple double in his first career playoff game.
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Bill Russell\n\nHe was total domination both offensively and defensively. Shaq and Kareem were scoring machines but not as great of defenders.  Wilt was a great shot blocker and scorer, but only a close second to Russell.
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Yes - Free throws made in a single game (21)
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Lakers 105 - Hornets 94. Kobe Bryant scored 30 points, Lamar Odom scored 23 points for the Lakers while Kwame Brown scored 17.\n\nFor the Hornets, David West scored 23 points, Chris Paul scored 17 points and P.J. Brown scored 12 points.
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stop him! he got 42 points, and is unstoppable. He beat MJ FG record for the playoffs and has the most Free Throw record.\nYou can't stop him
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Kobe. Doesn't anyone on this site watch any games...it's pretty obvious... He won the scoring title by about two points while being constantly double teamed.
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Truth is, there are about 8 players in NBA history who have a legitimate argument to be called the best (or most dominant) player of all time...\n\nThey are:\n\n1) Wilt Chamberlain\n2) Bill Russell\n3) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\n4) Larry Bird\n5) Magic Johnson\n6) Oscar Robertson\n7) Michael Jordan\n8) Shaquille O'Neal\n\nTim Duncan probably comes the closest to matching the skill level of these guys, in terms of fundamentals...but Duncan does not have a claim to be called the best ever...\n\nWilt was really the most dominant player ever (on BOTH ends of the court), and his basketball skills far exceeded those of Shaquille O'Neal. Although Jordan's strong suit is his scoring, his scoring feats really pale in comparison with Wilt.\n\nRussell led his team to 11 NBA titles in his 13 year career. Were Jordan around back then, he'd be just another guy who lost to the Celtic machine.\n\nJordan and Shaq are the only players on the above list who had the luxury of playing against what amounts to 'high school' players. The level of competition and overall skill levels of todays players is not as good as during, for example, the 1980s. But players today are adjusting to the way the NBA wants the game played. Traveling is never called, nor is 'palming' the ball (probably no one under 25 today even knows what 'palming the ball' even means...)\n\nThe All Defensive teams were not selected until after the 1969 season, so Wilt only made that team 3 or 4 times, but would have made it more often had there been such a thing in the '60s. So the idea that Jordan is the greatest defender ever because of his All Defensive number of selections is not well-founded.\n\nIf anyone thinks that todays players are more highly skilled than players of the 60s 70s and 80s, we need only look as far as the U.S. recent international performances, or lack thereof. Teams from Europe are beating our NBA "All Star" teams on a regular basis the last few years, because they (the Europeans) are still playing the game the way the U.S. played it in the 60s and 70s, when the U.S. truly dominated the world in basketball. They have taken the way we taught them the game and are now using that style against us. The U.S. international teams have been pathetic during the 21st century.\n\nMcGrady is not even close to being the best player of all time... there's no argument that one can make to place him anywhere near the company of the guys on this list. Being able to dunk doesn't make you the greatest player of all time.  If you think T-Mac is one of the two greatest players ever, you obviously haven't watched very much basketball.
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Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game between the Philadelphia Warriors and the New York Knicks March 2, 1962 at Hershey, PA. \n\nGobs of details at the NBA Hall of Fame site at\nhttp://www.hoophall.com/exhibits/chamberlain_game.htm
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Alex\n\nAlex English was the NBA's most prolific scorer during the 1980s and retired as the seventh-leading scorer with 25, 613 points
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Carmelo Kyan Anthony\n10 points!