One player scoring 50 points in a game has only happened 337 times in the 57,062 games ever played in the NBA, a mere 0.59% of the time. It happens around 5.5 times a season on average, but this year, we’ve already seen eight.
Those players? All of them are All-Stars. Isaiah Thomas, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, James Harden and Russell Westbrook. Jimmy Butler of the Chicago Bulls was the most recent recipient of this feat, as he scored 52 points on Monday night.
Can Indiana Pacers’ star Paul George join that club at some point before this season ends?