Which NBA individual single game record will be hardest to break?

Most rebounds and most points will be the hardest to break if they are ever broken.

 

30 assists is hard to fathom. I'm going with that one because that depends on how well your teamates shoot, and the scorekeeper.

 

I don't know, Scotty Skiles didn't really have great teammates on that team when he got his 30...(I think...)

I would also put steals up there, since it's hard to hit even double figure steals

 

Its kind of hard to believe that when wilt had 55 rebounds he didn't set the all-time offensive board record. that means at least 35 of his rebounds were defensive. that's amazing. that's like grabbing 90% of all your opponents missed shots in a normal game.

 

rebounds.

Getting in perfect position helps(which no one is going to give up w/o a fight), but even then you are at the mercy of how the ball bounces off the rim.

Right now a great game is 20 boards and 30 is rare. Someone doubling that? I don't think I'll ever see that.

 

I think assists, rebounds, and points will all be hard to break because the modern NBA game just does not have as many shots taken as those back in the day. But, Kobe's done 81 points; Barkley's broken 30 rebounds; I think Kidd's done over 20 assists. So, they aren't too far off -- they just likely won't get much closer. In the end, I think the 55 rebounds will be the hardest to break. That'd be well over half the rebounds in a typical game (for both teams combined). Even a team running a small-ball lineup wouldn't let one person get that many rebounds.

 

I can't believe this is even a discussion. Wilt's 100 is the greatest single game accomplishment in all of sports, IMO. Kobe had the game of his life and was still 19 points short. The new defensive rules have hampered individual performances, especially at the center position, and defenders are much more athletic these days.

I'm waiting for a triple double with no points scored. Ben Wallace had zero points last night, but was probably the game MVP with the way he affected the game on the defensive end.

 

I could see someone like Kobe getting 101 in a David Robinson way... last game of the season, playing for nothing against a team trying out some youngsters and having your teammates OK to go for the record. (So check that, it won't be Kobe.)

55 rebounds is unthinkable in today's game.

17 Blocks in today's game is pretty far out there as well.

 

I agree that it is the greatest single game accomplishment of basketball (not sure about all sports, but i'll agree with basketball)...BUT...that is not the question. the question is what will be hardest to break.

Players get half-way to 100 points all the time. I don't remember a player getting halfway to 55 rebounds. i don't remember a player gettin anywhere remotely close to 21 offensive rebounds.

on a side note...i think nash can beat the assists record if he wanted. he had 12 assists in one quarter versus the heat earlier this year. that's on pace for 48

 

i don't know how many there were in that particular game, but people took way more shots back then, and field goal percentages were not appreciably higher (may have even been lower), so there were plenty of rebounds to be had. i think teams averaged something like 73 rebounds per game in one year in the 1960's and 60+ rebounds a few other years compared to about 43 per game these days.



as for assists, if scott skiles can do it, it can't be unbreakable. 100 points and 55 rebounds takes a transcendent talent like wilt having more physical domination than anyone enjoys today combined with a much faster pace than we'll probably ever see again. getting a lot of assists doesn't. steve nash had 12 in the first quarter against the heat recently so a whole game with things breaking like that and he could do it. throw in a suns triple-OT special and he'd really have a shot.


so in the end i chose rebounds. kobe's 81 is closer to 100 than anyone's been to 55 in a while, and who knows, kobe might even be able to break his own 81 one game if he had a hotter start than the 81 game. barkley's 33 rebounds his first game with us is the highest i can remember in a while, which would be like someone scoring 60 to wilt's 100.

i don't really think 17 blocks will be broken either but maybe someone just goes crazy one day.

 

That's because the Stilt was just so physically dominant. There will never be another one like him. I think a player that just focuses on rebounding could break it if he got off to a hot start, like Ben Wallace. Barkley and Rodman used to get 20+ rebounds multiple times during the season

As for the offensive rebounds, I think Moses was accused more than a couple of times of missing shots on purpose so he can get the offensive rebound.

 

That 55 rebounds has to be toughest, I don't think anyone will even get close. Didn't Rodman, with Bulls, once get 30 Rbs?

 

As far as blocks are concerned, there was also no goal tending

 

Not saying Kobe's game was a fluke, but it took an extraordinary scorer, a poor defensive team, and an absent minded coach to help him get his 81.

I don't see 100 being touched. I don't see 55 rebs being touched either.

 

If George McCloud can get 21 assists in a game, then I'm sure Steve Nash can get to 31.