Breaking down the NBA's historic surge of 50-point performances this season - ESPN

The NBA experienced a notable explosion in scoring throughout the 2022-23 regular season, particularly among the league's stars.

The NBA saw 15 different players combine for 25 50-point games this season, the most in a single regular season since the early 1960s. The culprits for these scoring fireworks were the usual suspects, as former MVPs Stephen Curry and Giannis Antetokounmpo along with other superstars such as Joel Embiid, Luka Doncic, Damian Lillard, Devin Booker, Jayson Tatum and Anthony Davis etched their names into this year's 50-point club.

And the 50-point club also welcomes postseason membership, as Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler scored 56 points in Monday's Game 4 first-round playoff win against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Here's a look at every player who scored at least 50 points in a game this 2022-23 full season and the conditions behind their special nights:

Curry put together a prolific performance when the Warriors needed it the most — in Game 7 of the NBA playoffs first round. Curry went 20-for-38 from the field, including 7 3-pointers to lead his team past the Sacramento Kings and into the West semifinals. It is the most points scored by a player in a Game 7 in NBA history.

Jimmy Butler lived up to his nickname «Playoff Jimmy» with an emphatic performance in Game 4 of the Miami Heat's first round series against the No. 1-seeded Milwaukee Bucks on Monday. Butler poured in a career high 56 points, the most in a playoff game in Heat history and tied for the 4th-most in a playoff game in NBA postseason history, to rally his team from down 12 in the fourth quarter.

Joel Embiid made a compelling argument for MVP with a 52-point performance in a 103-11 win against the Boston Celtics. Embiid went 20-for-25 from