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Person, woman, man, camera, TV.
Nobody says it better than the guy I who said it.
Ja Morant wrote:
Cy Young's 511 wins.
this and only this. no one will ever get that many chances to win again - unless relief pitching is outlawed. he might also have the most losses but I'm too lazy to look it up, Connie Mack has the most wins and the most losses of any manager. Belichik has the 2nd most wins and most losses of any NFL coach
Johnny Vander Meer's two consecutive no-hitters.
To break it, a pitcher would have to throw three straight complete game no-hitters.
Michael Jordan's finals record. Impossible to surpass even if you literally have more finals wins. Because apparently peak basketball was in the 90s and players never got better since then. Also the rule changes since then we're always to just to create inferior basketball. Players accurately shooting from half court now just aren't skilled enough to have dominated back then.
I am NOT being sarcastic
Actual unbreakable records - lebron's 10+ pts streak
JustMe22 wrote:
Probably Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point NBA game. No one has even come close to breaking it, and the competition is much stiffer than when it was set.
people have gotten much closer (81%) to that record than gretzky's points or assists in a career
Wayne Gretzky’s career points total of 2,857. He has more assists alone (1,963) than anybody else has points (goals + assists). He also has four 200 point seasons, which no one else has done once.
Hobbs Kessler’s road mile WR
Eddy Merckx career (cycling) including 525 wins.
A lot of baseball ones based on how the game has changed- all of the high-volume pitching stats people have mentioned like Cy Young's wins or innings pitched in a season, but also look at career triples. Sam Crawford is first at 309, with Ty Cobb 2nd at 295. Stan Musial, tied for 19th at 177, is the only guy in the top 20 who played after WWII. Active leader is Charlie Blackmon with 63.
Safe bet no one will get there, unless the game completely changes again. Someone touching Rickey Henderson's 1409 stolen bases (~500 more than second place) is also pretty darn unlikely, though rule changes have brought stolen base numbers up in past year.
Henry Aaron’s major league home run record- 755.
This thread has already generated a great list, and many really are virtually unbreakable.
I would second Cal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive starts.
Interesting how they can be separated into longevity records, moments (or events) of greatness, and some have an element of luck.
Many will never be broken because of changes to convention in coaching and playing expectations; a manager would never let a pitcher throw enough innings or complete games to break some baseball records, for example. A player would never even try to start 2,632 games today (very few even start 162).
As unlikely as it is for an NBA player to score 100+, that is more likely than winning 511 baseball games or many of the other records, because at least someone can try to break that record. In fact, you could make the case that at the opening tip of every NBA game, someone could be trying to break that record.
JustMe22 wrote:
Probably Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point NBA game. No one has even come close to breaking it, and the competition is much stiffer than when it was set.
He did it without a 3 point shot too.
Wilt Chamberlain's 50 points per game average in one full season, 22.9 rebounds average for his entire career, 55 rebounds in one game. Insane!
Ty Cobb's lifetime .367 BA
Boston Celtics 8 consecutive NBA titles
Buffalo Bills 4 consecutive Super Bowl losses
Coach John Wooden 10 NCAA Basketball Titles
Didn't 3 players just score 70 with one players not really scoring in the 4th?
Klay Thompson and Carmelo Anthony have scored 30+ in a quarter. 100 is definitely doable. The team has to commit to it the same way wilts team probably did lol.
westsouthrunner wrote:
Didn't 3 players just score 70 with one players not really scoring in the 4th?
Klay Thompson and Carmelo Anthony have scored 30+ in a quarter. 100 is definitely doable. The team has to commit to it the same way wilts team probably did lol.
Take away the 3 point shot and none of these modern day players come close to Wilt's 100 point game. Imagine if Wilt had a 3 point shot in 1962, the record could have been 115 or 120 points.
If that record ever gets broken. it deserves an asterisk.
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I'll start by saying this probably wouldn't happen in the NBA, but...
Wilt's record could be broken with the Grinnell College method (which was used when Jack Taylor scored 138 points in 40 minutes).
The concept includes running a full court press through the entire game and when you force a turnover you feed the designated shooter immediately. If the other team breaks the press you can let them score a layup to get the ball back as fast as possible. When your designated shooter launches, everyone crashes the boards for the offensive rebound. If the other team gets the rebound and gets a fast break, you don't care; you let them score. If you are close to the record and need to extend the game you can start to foul to stop the clock as quickly and as often as possible, thus increasing possessions for the designated shooter.
Numbah4BobbyOrr wrote:
Wayne Gretzky’s career points total of 2,857. He has more assists alone (1,963) than anybody else has points (goals + assists). He also has four 200 point seasons, which no one else has done once.
Agree. Gretsky's assists will never be touched unless the game changes radically.
Brett Favre's 336 career interceptions.