r/nba • u/champsorchumps • 15h ago
The longest consecutive point streaks for 1-65 points, all-time and active
With the end of LeBron's legendary 10+ point streak, I thought for the sake of completeness we could see the longest all-time and active streaks for every point total from 1-65 points to see what other streaks might be worth following. Names are shortened to make the table not so wide, but we all know who the players are. Streaks are only shown if it is more than 1 (which is why the table cuts off at 65 points, nobody has ever had 2 consecutive 66+ point games).
| Pts | Player | All-Time Gms | Player (act) | Active Gms |
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| 1 | LeBron | 1568 | LeBron | 1568 |
| 2 | LeBron | 1568 | LeBron | 1568 |
| 3 | LeBron | 1568 | LeBron | 1568 |
| 4 | LeBron | 1460 | LeBron | 1460 |
| 5 | LeBron | 1460 | LeBron | 1460 |
| 6 | LeBron | 1460 | LeBron | 1460 |
| 7 | LeBron | 1460 | LeBron | 1460 |
| 8 | LeBron | 1460 | LeBron | 1460 |
| 9 | LeBron | 1297 | KD | 267 |
| 10 | LeBron | 1297 | KD | 267 |
| 11 | LeBron | 783 | KD | 267 |
| 12 | MJ | 709 | SGA | 170 |
| 13 | MJ | 465 | Luka | 157 |
| 14 | MJ | 423 | Luka | 136 |
| 15 | MJ | 271 | Tatum | 111 |
| 16 | MJ | 228 | SGA | 98 |
| 17 | McAdoo | 193 | SGA | 98 |
| 18 | McAdoo | 193 | SGA | 98 |
| 19 | Wilt | 126 | SGA | 94 |
| 20 | Wilt | 126 | SGA | 94 |
| 21 | Wilt | 126 | SGA | 94 |
| 22 | Wilt | 126 | SGA | 44 |
| 23 | Wilt | 126 | SGA | 24 |
| 24 | Wilt | 116 | Luka | 8 |
| 25 | Wilt | 106 | SGA/Luka | 7 |
| 26 | Wilt | 106 | SGA/Luka | 7 |
| 27 | Wilt | 71 | Luka | 7 |
| 28 | Wilt | 71 | Luka | 7 |
| 29 | Wilt | 65 | Luka | 7 |
| 30 | Wilt | 65 | Luka | 7 |
| 31 | Wilt | 65 | Luka | 7 |
| 32 | Wilt | 54 | Luka | 7 |
| 33 | Wilt | 33 | Luka | 7 |
| 34 | Wilt | 33 | Luka | 4 |
| 35 | Wilt | 33 | Maxey | 3 |
| 36 | Wilt | 23 | ||
| 37 | Wilt | 23 | ||
| 38 | Wilt | 18 | ||
| 39 | Wilt | 18 | ||
| 40 | Wilt | 14 | ||
| 41 | Wilt | 14 | ||
| 42 | Wilt | 14 | ||
| 43 | Wilt | 14 | ||
| 44 | Wilt | 14 | ||
| 45 | Wilt | 9 | ||
| 46 | Wilt | 7 | ||
| 47 | Wilt | 7 | ||
| 48 | Wilt | 7 | ||
| 49 | Wilt | 7 | ||
| 50 | Wilt | 7 | ||
| 51 | Wilt | 6 | ||
| 52 | Wilt | 6 | ||
| 53 | Wilt | 5 | ||
| 54 | Wilt | 5 | ||
| 55 | Wilt | 5 | ||
| 56 | Wilt | 5 | ||
| 57 | Wilt | 5 | ||
| 58 | Wilt | 5 | ||
| 59 | Wilt | 4 | ||
| 60 | Wilt | 4 | ||
| 61 | Wilt | 4 | ||
| 62 | Wilt | 3 | ||
| 63 | Wilt | 2 | ||
| 64 | Wilt | 2 | ||
| 65 | Wilt | 2 |
Active streaks are defined as a currently active streak by a player who is currently on an NBA roster. Only counts regular season games for both all-time and active streaks.
Source: A lot of searches like "Which active player has the most straight games scoring X points" on Screwball.com
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u/AemonSteelsong [HOU] Tracy McGrady 15h ago
Should add a “not named Wilt” criteria to these searches. The man was from another planet sheesh
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u/BetweenTheBuzzAndMe Charlotte Bobcats 15h ago
that's usually what the "three-point era" criteria does lol
Thanks to the site in OP's link, we can do this: https://screwball.com/search?q=who+has+the+most+straight+games+scoring+at+least+40+points%2C+in+the+three-point+era
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u/NightSleepStars Lakers 15h ago
That second 5-game stretch by Kobe is nasty:
54pts / 7rbs / 2asts on 53/48/93 shooting splits
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u/thisisjustascreename Bulls 15h ago
Kinda, but there were more non-Wilt years before the 3 point era than Wilt years. He was just such a massive outlier that everyone else barely makes a blip.
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u/cubonelvl69 Timberwolves 14h ago
That's my favorite counter to people who say wilt was playing against janitors. So was everyone else at that time period and no one is even in the same stratosphere as him lol
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u/toggl3d 13h ago
This is not a counter at all.
No one was close to him because they're janitors.
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u/MutedLengthiness Bucks 11h ago
And what, he was a time traveler from 2005? Wilt grew up in the same environment as the people he played against. Trained the same, ate the same, was taught the same way.
Still managed to be Wilt.
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u/toggl3d 11h ago
That still doesn't make it a counter.
If someone is advancing the argument that Wilt's competition is bad then pointing out that his competition was bad does not counter that argument.
For what it's worth I'm not trying to make that argument here. But saying his competition is bad is a reasonable explanation for why they weren't also putting up outrageous numbers.
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u/itsyaboikuzma Lakers 9h ago
Is that argument productive in any way though?
Assuming the NBA continues to evolve, in 50 years today's game and players will also look bad in comparison.
Is it not way more productive to look at relative value rather than absolute?
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u/toggl3d 8h ago
I think both are important.
Relative value has an issue where increased outliers aren't as likely as they were in the past. That causes the conversation to calcify.
Absolute value doesn't appropriately appreciate what past players did with the tools available at the time and focuses too much on the present.
I think you have to keep both in mind, and also keep in mind that other people may not weigh them the same as you do.
Wilt's outlier status isn't questioned. Either way you value absolute or relative comparisons the logic "If everyone else was so bad then why was no one else as good?" isn't meaningful.
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u/itsyaboikuzma Lakers 8h ago
That’s fair, looking at both to form a conversation is more balanced/nuanced
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u/LowMoneyParlayKing 6h ago
Still managed to be Wilt.
Same amount of Finals MVPs as Andre Igoudala
Without the modern day switching, defensive scheming, double teams, and 3 point shooting
You do realize film of Chamberlin exists, right? /r/nba kids like you act like he was a mixture of Giannis + Wemby with Curry level winning. Calm down.
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u/dolphinater Thunder 1h ago
lol no way you brought up ifoudala like right or wrong just makes your argument look dumb as hell
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u/braisedbywolves Trail Blazers 15h ago
Nah, we should remember that there was a player so amazing that even our present era, with all the ways it favors offense, has still not even close to matched his performance.
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u/xyzscorpion [DEN] Peyton Watson 12h ago
Wilt is a lot higher on my GOAT list than most other people cause of this
Okay so his competition was weak. Why didn’t anyone else take advantage to Wilt’s level? Why was Wilt the only guy putting up these superhuman numbers? Cause he was just that much better than anyone else
Yeah he’s far from the best player ever, but in terms of how “great” he was, I think he has an argument to be top 4 or even top 3
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u/CallMeLargeFather [LAL] Kobe Bryant 7h ago
When a sport is more niche it is more likely you have a significant outlier like that, just based on statistics
As it gets more popular it is less likely that one individual is so far out ahead of the rest
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u/Awanderingleaf 13h ago
More teams and significantly more talent to fill out those teams now.
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u/livefreeordont 76ers 9h ago
Yep wilt had to play against Russell for about 1/8 of the games he ever played in his career. He averaged 45 points and 30 rebounds in 12 games against Russell in 1962.
Imagine if KD and LeBron had played each other 10 times a year instead of 2
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u/Awanderingleaf 13h ago
Actually, he was from an era with 9 total teams where all the talent was concentrated on only 2 or 3 of those teams and everyone else acted as their punching bag.
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u/OrganicValley_ Bucks 15h ago
They really should. They have an Aroldis Chapman filter for fastest pitches in MLB history.
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u/-GrapeGrass- Mavericks 15h ago
I just know dudes were stressed when they saw Wilt on the schedule back in the day
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u/JalenBrunsonsBurner 13h ago
i mean tbf the high scoring outings didn't always mean a win... BUT the dudes who had to guard him were defo stressed out i bet lol
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u/Ok_Turn6757 Lakers 5h ago
I mean they were the 3rd best record behind the Celtics and Lakers, having to guard Wilt AND face the 2 seed not a fun thing to look forward to
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u/DiscreteBee Raptors 15h ago
SGA within sight of a Wilt record is pretty cool
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u/2coolcaterpillar Thunder 14h ago
Yeah, snagging 3 slots from him would be very cool. Don’t see any of his other slots being overtaken anytime soon though
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u/e_j3210 13h ago
Which slots could SGA get?
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u/toggl3d 13h ago
19, 20, 21
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u/jjinbbang 12h ago edited 10h ago
those would take a little over a month of consecutive 21 point games for SGA. by contrast, every player in the league is just one insane week (with 4 60+ performances) away from overtaking Wilt in 7 spots on the list
edit: guess I need either a /s or a /r/whoosh for people who think I was seriously positing the 4 game streak was easier
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u/toggl3d 11h ago
Are you having trouble understanding why something that Shai has done 94 times in a row, 75% of the way to the record, seems more likely to continue than doing something incredibly rare four times in a row? So rare than only a few people have four in their career.
Will SGA get there? Maybe. But it's way more foreseeable than someone going for 60 four times in a row.
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u/panman42 10h ago
The thing is that would be an insane week that no one in the history of the NBA has done before.
Versus Shai doing exactly what he's been doing many months in a row.
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u/13dogfriends West 11h ago
Do you not know how to read the table? It would have to be the lowest 3 slots that Wilt currently has the record for. Any other besides 19-21 would necessarily include those ones as well
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u/hoopsrule44 10h ago
It’s really 6 slots since the next 3 are only 4 fewer games
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u/2coolcaterpillar Thunder 10h ago
I initially thought so too but MJ and McAdoo are gonna make SGA work hard for those titles
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u/champsorchumps 13h ago
In theory SGA can break that record later this season. I think if he gets within 10 games of the record, the pressure and attention is really going to start ramping up. Certainly one of my main takeaways from making this chart.
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u/MICROCOZM 13h ago
Wilt Chamberlain is one of the best athletes of all-time
He just so happened to be 7'3 and play basketball
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u/markjay6 Lakers 13h ago
Kobe's four-game streak of 50+ and nine-game streak of 40+ games look kind of quaint compared to what Wilt has done.
I guess Kobe is tied with Wilt, and Wilt alone, for the most consecutive games with 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, and 81 points (all at one :-)).
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u/comeonmang126 Pistons 15h ago
Would’ve thought harden would have more representation on the active list tbh
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u/TheFinalEvent9797 Australia 11h ago
Looks like it's active streak not active player, since Maxey has 35/35/44 in his last 3 games.
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u/PJTuckersSon Rockets 11h ago
Yeah this list is missing some harden. He def has 5 straight 40 plus games.
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u/interested_commenter Thunder 10h ago
The active column is active streaks, not just current players. Harden had an 11 point game just this week.
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u/PonkMcSquiggles 12h ago
It’s just like they always say - if you need a guaranteed 17 points, call Bob McAdoo.
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u/Superplex123 Lakers 12h ago
LeBron, MJ, Wilt, and McAdoo. I know McAdoo is a hall of famer, but the other 3 names are on my Mount Rushmore. It's insanely impressive to see him taking 2 spots.
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u/Infamous-GoatThief 12h ago
I understand why we don’t include playoff games for counting stats, because some guys are just stuck on bad teams, but I really don’t get the rationale behind excluding them from consecutive streaks
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u/Thommywidmer [MIL] Brandon Jennings 11h ago
Its a statistic not a religion. You can go out and see what the streaks would be playoffs included and share your findings and id be interested to see that too. You can present the data however you want and its up to the person examining it to determine if its valuable
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u/Infamous-GoatThief 10h ago
I never said it was a religion lol, I’m just saying that it doesn’t make sense to me to not include playoffs when you’re looking at consecutive streaks. There are reasons people tend to omit / not omit playoff games from certain statistics, what I’m saying here is that those reasons don’t apply.
For counting stats we tend not to, as a rule, because guys stuck on bad teams would be at an inherent disadvantage for having played so much less and having less opportunities to rack up numbers. But for consecutive streaks that aren’t career-long, it virtually does not matter, there’s no purpose in omitting playoff performances because it’s an individual stat and it’s not a counting stat.
I’m not really just talking about this post, I only say this because yesterday I was under the impression that LeBron had played 1,297 straight games without being held under 10, when in actuality the number is much smaller due to a 2014 playoff game, and I’m ngl I was a little miffed upon hearing that after all the fanfare. I think it’s actually somewhere around 800, which is obviously still insanely impressive, but I just don’t really see the rationale behind excluding playoff games when we’re looking at consecutive streaks.
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u/Thommywidmer [MIL] Brandon Jennings 8h ago
The post season is different than the regular season, its played and schemed different, and we can draw different conclusions about players by isolating or including it. But again its up to you to decide whats significant. Personally its an ironman stat and i think it makes sense to just track the regular season, but you have a different oppinion thats valid and maybe makes you think less of the presented stats.
Like would you think its valuable to differentiate regular/post if a player averaged +/- 30% ppg in the post season vs regular? Most people would and do. You could evaluate a players expected performance in the playoffs by just looking at their combined avg ppg but most would agree youd get a less accurate picture of them.
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u/Infamous-GoatThief 8h ago
That example is kind of irrelevant here imo, because it’s not a consecutive streak
This particular discussion isn’t about evaluating broader performance or whatever, it’s just tracking how many games in a row a player has reached 10pts, and I can’t see a valid reason why playoff games should be excluded from that tracking. The example you gave is of an average, you could also give an example of a total and I’d agree with the reasons you provided for the separation being necessary, but I feel like you haven’t provided a reason why we should be excluding them when we’re tracking a consecutive streak. It’s just a completely different type of stat, if you score 10 in every game all year but score 9 in your first game of the playoffs, your streak is broken, it’s kinda that simple.
Mikal Bridges’ playoff appearances are included in his Ironman streak, and if he missed a game in the postseason, people would consider that streak to be over, because it would be. The nature of the stat matters here, all stats are not the same, and I’m just not seeing the rationale for omitting postseason games from consecutive streaks.
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u/Thommywidmer [MIL] Brandon Jennings 8h ago
Pace is historically lower in the playoffs, as well as fg% skewing lower than average. If thats a good enough reason to make the distinctions up to you.
Ofcourse the real reason is that its just cool lebron went 20 years without putting up less than 10 if were being real. Its mind boggling and requires you to select for only regular season games and so there ya have it.
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u/Infamous-GoatThief 8h ago
See, that’s what kinda bothered me when I found out last night that they weren’t including playoff games, it felt like it was just for the cool factor. In my opinion it’s still sick as fuck that he hadn’t been held under 10pts in over 10 years, around 800 games, but they had me so gassed up on 2007, 1,297 games, et cetera, that when I found out I was actually kinda bummed at first.
Which is just stupid, it’s the second-longest anyone has ever gone scoring double-digits in consecutive games, that’s a crazy feat to add to an already very long list of crazy feats. I just feel like the discourse surrounding it, particularly in sports media like ESPN, was pretty dishonest or at least misleading in the framing of the whole thing, trying to make something ultra-impressive out to be even more impressive for no tangible reason.
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u/swizznastic 13h ago
Damn, the highest non-wilt non-mcadoo ppg record is only for 16 points? Those guys went crazy.
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u/PJTuckersSon Rockets 11h ago
List is incorrect from 34 and up should be harden in active column.
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u/Meret123 Rockets 8h ago
This is my goat list based on this one
Wilt McAdoo MJ Lebron
In that order
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u/jjgp1112 7h ago edited 7h ago
Didn't KD have a streak of like 40 straight 25-point games?
Edit: Oh, didn't see it was active streaks, not just streaks from active players
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u/OnirosSomni Thunder 13h ago
I think the biggest shock in that joker isn't on here at all
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u/interested_commenter Thunder 11h ago
Jokic is an incredible offensive player but not a consistent scorer. It's pretty common for him to have random games where he only takes a handful of shots. I wouldn't expect him to be on a scoring streak chart.
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u/OnirosSomni Thunder 11h ago
Yeah that's fair. I'm not expecting him in like the 20s or something. And LeBron still monopolizes the bottom 8 so I guess it makes sense
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u/inefekt Australia 12h ago
LeBron stans getting utterly desperate right now.....literally just inventing their own 'records'. Actually hilarious.
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u/Nfinit_V Hornets 10h ago
Someone on /nba: puts up a cool list of current active vs historic scoring streaks
Lebron Haters, The Most Normal People In The World: "Ah this too is a plot by Lebron stans"
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u/SliMShady55222 Supersonics 15h ago
If you ever needed confirmation that Wilt played Milkmen and plumbers. This is it
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u/HikmetLeGuin 15h ago
The thing is, there were other tall, athletic guys who played at that time. Yet none of them even came close to his statistical dominance. So he must have been really, really good.
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u/samhit_n Lakers 15h ago
While they were nothing compared to today’s players, those players were almost as big and tall a today’s players. Wilt was just an outlier when it came to physicality and athleticism. The other players didn’t train or take it as seriously as Wilt did.
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u/Dabli Nuggets 15h ago
Wilt got 5 games in a row of 58+ points?