2025 NBA playoff odds: Can anyone break Jordan, LeBron scoring records?

The NBA’s all-time main scorer and its handiest postseason scorer every personal a playoff report that can be troublesome to match. 

However that does not imply it’s unimaginable. 

Again in 1993, Michael Jordan had a Sport 4 for the ages within the convention finals in opposition to the New York Knicks (who else?), dropping 54 factors in a 105-95 win for the Chicago Bulls. 

That convention finals single-game scoring report nonetheless stands at this time. 

Quick-forward to 2012, and then-Heat member LeBron James scored 235 factors in a seven-game convention finals collection in opposition to the Celtics, earlier than scoring 235 once more in 2018, then as a member of the Cavaliers, in a six-game collection in opposition to Orlando. 

That report additionally stands at this time. 

Can any NBA celebrity problem both of these data within the 2025 convention finals?

Let’s take a look at the chances at DraftKings Sportsbook as of Could 19.

Any participant to interrupt Michael Jordan’s single-game convention finals factors report (55+ factors)

Sure: +2000 (wager $10 to win $210 whole)

Any participant to interrupt LeBron James’ convention finals factors in collection report (236+ factors)

Sure: +1500 (wager $10 to win $160 whole)

By way of playoff factors per sport common, Jordan is the all-time chief at 33.5 factors per sport. Along with proudly owning that report and the report for many factors in a convention finals sport, he additionally owns the report for many factors in a playoff sport in NBA historical past (63). 

Fairly the bucket, huh?

Properly, James is not far behind. His all-time NBA playoff factors per sport common is 28.4 (sixth), and he holds the report for many postseason factors all time with 8,289. 

For context, second all-time on the postseason scoring checklist is Jordan — with 5,987 factors. 

Nonetheless remaining on this 12 months’s postseason is the No. 1 regular-season scorer from this 12 months, Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the participant that many have in comparison with Jordan since he entered the league, Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards, and the NBA’s Clutch Participant of the Yr, New York’s Jalen Brunson.

SGA had video games of 54, 52, 51 and 50 through the 2024-25 common season, and his excessive through the playoffs is 38 (Sport 4 @ MEM, first spherical). 

As for Edwards, he had 53 and 49 in a regular-season sport this season, and on this playoffs, he topped out at 43 (Sport 4 vs. LAL, first spherical). 

Lastly, Brunson had a 55-point sport through the common season, and had 40 in Sport 6 in opposition to Detroit within the first spherical.

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