Journeymen, Legends Among NBA’s Most Prolific Exact Scorers

Now that the NBA Playoffs (and all the action it generated on legal online sportsbooks) and the draft have come and gone, it’s time to reflect back on some of the sport’s most unique performances over the years.

Between longtime NBA forward Reggie Evans and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member Kevin Garnett, there’s a little bit of everything on one particular league leaderboard — the NBA’s all-time leaders by point total in a game.

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Evans, who has the NBA’s most one-point games (58) and Garnett, who leads the NBA in 20-point outings (at 88) are among the interesting names who have scored between one and 20 points the most in league history.

Utilizing Basketball-Reference.com, U.S. Betting Report found the number of each point total game every NBA player has had in league history.

Here’s where some of the NBA’s most legendary (and under-the-radar) players finished on this very unique points leaderboard.

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NBA Exact Scorers Leaderboard

With free agency ongoing and NBA Summer League underway, Denver is still the 2024 NBA title favorite at legal sports betting apps. The Nuggets are +475, just ahead of Boston at +500.

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Catchings Reaches Basketball Immortality

The NBA player with the most number of games scoring one particular point total likely isn’t one fans would think of — 12-year forward Harvey Catchings had the highest number of exact totals at 179.

For Catchings, the figure that landed him on the list was his number of two-point games, which came in a career that spanned from 1974 to 1985.

Michael Cage had the next highest number of exact point outcomes, scoring six points in 144 different games, while Shaun Livingstone (143 four-point games), PJ Brown (115 eight-point games) and Charles Oakley (107 10-point games) were next up on the all-time exact point totals leaderboard.

Other longtime NBA players that scored a certain amount at least 100 times were Horace Grant, who had 102 12-point games in his career, while Jason Kidd had an even 100 11-point games during his 21-year run with Dallas, Phoenix, New Jersey and New York.

Conversely, the lowest overall number of games on the list was Evans, who had 58 one-point games in his NBA career.

Other noteworthy NBA players that made the list were Garnett (with 88 20-point games), Tim Duncan (77 19-point games and 82 17-point outings) and John Stockton (91 13-point games). Could rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama join this list eventually? Maybe, but BetMGM Sportsbookexpects Wembanyama to join Duncan as NBA Rookie of the Year, giving him -200 odds. Scoot Henderson is second at +350.

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