It’s not often that an NBA player scores 50 or more points in a game. In fact, during the 2021-22 regular season (1,230 games), it happened only 12 times. The top five scorers in NBA history—Lebron James (still playing), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan—scored at least 50 points in a regular season game 73 times over a grand total of 93 seasons between them.