Title: List of National Basketball Association single-game scoring leaders
Content:  This is a complete listing of National Basketball Association players who have scored 60 or more points in a game. This feat has been accomplished 78 times in NBA history. Thirty players have scored 60 or more points in a game, while just six players have joined the 70 point club. Only six players have scored 60 or more points on more than one occasion: Wilt Chamberlain (32 times), Kobe Bryant (6 times), Michael Jordan (5 times), Elgin Baylor (4 times), James Harden (4 times), and Damian Lillard (3 times). Chamberlain holds the single-game scoring record, having scored 100 points in a game in 1962. Jordan (63) and Baylor (61) are the only players to score at least 60 points in a game during the playoffs, each accomplishing this once. The youngest player to achieve this is Devin Booker (70 points – 20 years and 145 days) and the oldest is Kobe Bryant (60 points – 37 years & 234 days).
Title: List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game
Content: National Basketball Association (NBA) 
Title: List of highest-scoring NBA games
Content:  The highest-scoring regular season game in NBA history is the triple-overtime game between the Detroit Pistons and the Denver Nuggets on December 13, 1983. The two teams combined to score 370 points, with the Pistons defeating the Nuggets 186–184. An NBA-record four players scored over 40 points in the game, including the Nuggets' Kiki Vandeweghe with a game-high 51. The two teams also set several other NBA records, including the most points scored by one team (186 points), the most points scored by a losing team (184), the most field goals by two teams (142), most field goals by one team (74) 
Title: List of National Basketball Association single-game playoff scoring leaders
Content:  points and assists the other three. This feat has been done by 14 different players, and only Wilt Chamberlain has done it more than once. Those players (in order of most points scored) are Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain (4 times), Charles Barkley, Rick Barry, Damian Lillard, Jerry West, Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, Bob Pettit, Billy Cunningham, Bob McAdoo, Karl Malone, Dirk Nowitzki, Jamal Murray, and Giannis Antetokounmpo. The only player who has earned a 50+ point Triple-double in a playoff game is Russell Westbrook, who dropped 51 while grabbing 10 rebounds and dealing out 13 assists. Out of the 28, only 4 players to accomplish this feat were born out of the United States. Those players are Dominique Wilkins (France), Dirk Nowitzki (Germany), Jamal Murray 
Title: 2016–17 NBA season
Content:  17 assists in a win against the New York Knicks. It was the first 50–15–15 game in NBA history, and Harden tied Wilt Chamberlain for the most points ever scored in a triple-double. ; On January 2, Jimmy Butler scored 52 points in a win against the Charlotte Hornets, becoming the eighth different player this season to score 50 points in a game, tying an NBA record for most in a single season (1990 and 2016). The other players to score 50 this season were James Harden, Isaiah Thomas, DeMarcus Cousins, John Wall, Klay Thompson, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook. ; 
Title: List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game
Content:  It happened during the 1923 Far Eastern Games. The highest single game total in worldwide organized basketball history, irrespective of gender, age or competition level, is 272 points, scored by a 13-year-old boy named Mats Wermelin of Sweden. He recorded every single point in his team's 272–0 win on February 5, 1974, during a regional boys' tournament held in Stockholm. As an adult, Wermelin played as a guard for Hammarby IF, Järfälla and Stockholm Capitals. The highest total by a female basketball player worldwide is 136, scored by Anat Draigor of Israel. It happened on April 5, 2006, in a 158–41 win. Draigor was 46 years old 
Title: List of National Basketball Association single-game scoring leaders
Content:  62. Scored 28 of the Lakers' 31 points in the fourth quarter. Scored 19 consecutive Laker points between the end of the first half and the middle of the third quarter. ; 3 OT; set a then-record for points in a game. Most points scored in a losing effort. Also recorded 43 rebounds. ; Set a then-record for points in a regulation game. ; Most points scored in an opposing arena. ; Last game of the season; George Gervin scored 63 on the same night to win the scoring title by a .07 margin. ; Set a then-record for points in 
Title: List of National Basketball Association single-game scoring leaders
Content:  ; Scored 16 of his team's 21 points in OT, setting an NBA record. ; 3rd game of a four-game 50+ streak; Bryant's 50+ streak exceeded only by Chamberlain's streaks of seven (twice), six, and five (four times). ; Final game of Bryant's career. Oldest player to score 60. ; Sat out the fourth quarter. ; New Rockets franchise single-game scoring record; also had 10 rebounds and 11 assists, setting the record for highest-scoring triple-double in NBA history. ; Game went to OT, where Walker scored two points. ; Sat out the fourth quarter. ; Scored ten points in OT. 
Title: Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game
Content:  Wilt Chamberlain set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147 win over the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, at Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It is widely considered one of the greatest records in the sport's history. Chamberlain set five other league records that game including most free throws made, a notable achievement, as he was regarded as a poor free throw shooter. Both teams broke the record for most combined points in a game (316). That season, Chamberlain averaged a record 50.4 points per game, and he had broken the NBA single-game scoring record (71) earlier in the season in December with 78 points. The third-year 
Title: List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game
Content:  Most of the players' exact statistics cannot be found, but whatever information was able to be verified is included. When a dash (&mdash;) appears in the three-point field goal statistic, it indicates that three-pointers had yet to be implemented and were therefore not an applicable statistic.

Question: who scored the most points in a single game in the nba?
Answer: Wilt Chamberlain.