Wilt Chamberlain 10/23/62 vs DET - 56 points
Michael Jordan 11/3/1989 vs CLE - 54 points
Elgin Baylor 10/18/1959 vs DET - 52 points
Kyrie Irving 10/23/2019 vs MIN - 50 points
Anthony Davis 10/26/2016 vs DEN - 50 points
Michael Jordan 11/1/1986 at NYK - 50 points
Does anyone have a chance to break through on this list?
(h/t StatMuse)
This is all team’s 1st games of the season.
Not all of these games qualify as Opening Night.
For example, only players from the Lakers, Nuggets, Suns, & Warriors can qualify as playing on Opening Night this season.
Booker or KD would probably be the picks to drop 50, but the other one of them has to have down night scoring wise.