One of the best barometers of a player’s impact is by the number of championships they have won. NBA titles perpetuate and accentuate a player’s legacy. When you discuss the best players of all time with friends, one of the first questions that comes up is … how many rings do they have? Of course, there are several NBA stars who never won a title that are still among the greatest of all time, but the players with the most NBA championships do tend to stand out in history. This list will look at the men with the most NBA championships as a player with a few caveats.

With all due respect to the Boston Celtics, many of the players with the most NBA titles all played for the first great Celtics dynasty. To avoid redundancy, this list will try to keep it to one player per dynasty. For instance, you won’t see both Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. Also, there are a few guys who were fortunate to be involved with multiple dynasties. Enough of all the chatter. Let’s identify some of the players who have won the most NBA championships.

There are certain records in American sports that seem to be untouchable and have reached mythical proportions. In baseball, you have DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak and Bonds’s 762 career homers. In football, you have Tom Brady’s seven Super Bowl Rings and Emmitt Smith’s 18.355 career rushing yards. In basketball, you have LeBron James’s 40,000 career points and Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game. These are iconic figures with mystical numbers.

That last record of Wilt’s has a surreal and this-will-never-be-broken feeling. In NBA history, only ten players have ever scored as much as 70 points in a single game. The aforementioned Big Dipper actually registered 70 points or more six times in his exalted career. This list will look at the top single-game scoring performances in NBA history as of the moment, limiting it to just one game from each player on the list (otherwise the list would have four more Wilt games!).

You might be shocked to hear a semi-famous #23 won’t be on this list as he never hit 70 in a game. Of course, with some of the fiery scorers in today’s game, there could be five more entries to this club by next week: the most points scored in a NBA game.

Embarking on a journey through the illustrious history of the NBA, we delve into the captivating realm of the most prolific individual scoring performances. From iconic players etching their names atop the scoring charts to the mesmerizing symphonies of offensive brilliance, the quest to discover the highest-scoring NBA seasons unveils a rich tapestry woven with skill, tenacity, and an enduring legacy on the hardwood. Join us in exploring the pinnacle of scoring excellence in basketball history.

While blocks may get all the highlights and fire up the crowd, steals are the real game changing plays on the defensive end. By stealing the ball, a defender is also stealing a possession. Add up several steals over the course of a game and win probability is dramatically affected. 

What is the individual record for most steals in an NBA game? Since the NBA started counting steals as a statistic in 1973, 20 players have stolen in double figures, with none garnering more than 11 steals in a game. Here are the players with the most steals in NBA game history.

In the modern NBA game, triple-doubles are more prevalent than they used to be. Don’t get me wrong, a triple-double is still an incredibly difficult and impressive feat, but they do happen a lot more now than in the NBA of yesteryear. There are various factors of why this is happening: more versatile and athletic players, positionless basketball at times, a bigger emphasis on a fast-paced and high-scoring game, stricter officiating and new rules that generally benefit the offensive players, etc. 

Just for example, last year Nikola Jokic led the NBA with 29 triple-doubles, compared to Magic Johnson leading the league with seven triple-doubles in 1979-1980. Here is a hard-to-believe statistical fact: five of the top ten players all time in triple-doubles are active players. Five more current players are in the top 20 all time. You could say this is the golden era for triple-doubles. However, it is important to note that the NBA didn’t officially start tracking triple-doubles until 1979-1980.

This list is going to spotlight the five NBA players with the most triple-doubles in their career. Please keep in mind that in a short amount of time these numbers could rise even more. To pay homage to Oscar Robertson, here are the men with the most triple-doubles in NBA history.

In NBA circles, the most heralded single-game performances tend to be scoring outbursts. From Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 point game to Kobe’s 81 to the surge of 70 point performances in the 2023-24 season, high scoring gets all the recognition. But what about the set up men? The distributors who create plays for their teammates? Here we will be recognizing the best single-game assist performances in NBA history. We’ll be looking at the assist record NBA single game leaders among players who recorded at least 25 assists in a single game.