NBA: Top 5 players with the most 50-Point Games

#4 Elgin Baylor, 17

Elgin Baylor is an 11-time All-Star

Career Stats: 27.4 points, 13.5 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game

Elgin Baylor played in the NBA for 14 seasons and spent all those years with the Los Angeles Lakers. The 11-time All-Star was a gifted scorer, strong rebounder and an excellent passer and used his skills to perfection, to dominate the opposition players.

The Small forward was selected by the Minneapolis Lakers with the first overall pick in the 1958 draft and he won the Rookie of the Year award after averaging 24.9 points, 15 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game that year.

Baylor made it to the All-NBA First Team ten times during his career and carried the Lakers to 10 straight post-seasons on his back. In 1962, he averaged 38.6 points per game in the playoffs but lost to the Celtics in the NBA in 7 games.

His jersey number 22 was retired by the Los Angeles Lakers. He scored more than 50 points in 17 games with his highest score being 71 points against the New York Knicks at the Madison Square Garden. He is one of the very few NBA players who totalled more than 70 points in a single game.