Top 5 Scores in the History of Basketball Games

5th place! In the game between  and the Denver Nuggets on November 2, 1990, the Warriors won with one hundred and sixty-two to one hundred and fifty-eight. In this game, the Warriors’ player with the highest score was Chris Mullin with 38 points scored, while the highest scoring Nuggets player was Orlando Woolridge with 37 points. There were three hundred and twenty points scored in this basketball game.

4th place is the game between the Chicago Bulls and the  on March 1, 2019. The Chicago Bulls won with one hundred and sixty-eight points against the Atlanta Hawks’ one hundred and sixty-one points. In this game, the highest scoring player from the Bulls (Zach LaVine) got 47 points, and Trae Young (the highest scoring player from the Hawks) scored and scored until he reached 49 points! Amazing! Young also got sixteen assists in that game. Overall, there were three hundred and twenty-nine points scored throughout the game.

The 3rd highest scoring basketball game was between the San Antonio Spurs and the Milwaukee Bucks on March 6, 1982. The San Antonio Spurs won at one hundred and seventy-one points to one hundred and sixty-six. The player with the overall most points scored in the game is the San Antonio Spurs’ George Gervin. He scored a whole FIFTY points in that game. The Milwaukee Bucks’ counterpart, Brian Winters, also scored a respectable forty-two points, which is a lot, but not as much as Gervin. In total there were three hundred and thirty-three points scored in that game.

In 2nd place, the game on February 25, 2023 between the Sacramento Kings and the Los Angeles Clippers. The Los Angeles Clippers barely lost to the Kings’ one hundred and seventy-six with one hundred and seventy-five! Malik Monk was very valuable to the Kings, seeing as he got them forty five points on his own. The Clippers’ player with the most points is Kawhi Leonard, with forty-four points scored throughout the game. The total number of points in the 2023 game is three hundred and fifty-one points.