#3. 100 Points in a Game - Wilt Chamberlain
You might argue that this should top the list as the most unbreakable record of all time, but this record isn't quite unbreakable.
Wilt's mark of 100 points stands as an important part of NBA lore, and it seems unrealistic to even imagine a world in which a second player has hit triple digits in a game, but we've seen one man named Kobe come extremely close already.
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Kobe's 81 points in 2006 is the only real challenge to this record to date, but the league is full of professional scorers and the league-wide pace is at a 30-year high. If Kobe's 81-point game happened in a game with today's pace, he would have edged closer to triple figures and maybe even reached it with an overtime period.
That's still a lot of factors to add to an 81-point game which is already mental, but the possibility is there at least, unlike a few other records. David Robinson, David Thompson, Elgin Baylor, and Devin Booker are the only players besides Wilt and Kobe to drop 70 points in a game; Thompson is the closest at 73 points.
Chamberlain set this record as a Philadelphia Warrior in 1962 against The Knicks. He scored 100 points with 36/63 shooting and finished 28/32 at the free throw line. Chamberlain owns the majority of the individual records in the league, but this record is his crowning achievement.
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