NBA: 5 Highest Scoring Games of Michael Jordan's career

#2 64 points vs Orlando on January 16, 1993

This year was the beginning of a short-lived MJ vs Orlando rivalry

Another overtime game that saw MJ drop 60+ points, and weirdly, the third loss on the top 5. This was the most interesting thing I found on the list, MJ kept losing games where he scored 60. This isn't a commentary on if high scoring by a singular player is detrimental to team success, but it is interesting when we associate Jordan so much with winning. This game came in the midst of one of Jordan's greatest season which would culminate in his first three-peat, but somehow he didn't win the MVP this year.

This served as one of Jordan's least efficient 60 point games, as he took 49 shots to get to 64 points, knocking down 1-5 threes and just 9-11 from the charity stripe. He seemed a little tired in this game, the second night of a back to back and his fifth game in nine days, relying more on his jumper than usual, as evidence by both the lower efficiency and low number of free throws (for him).

This is one of those games that illustrates Jordan so much, he didn't have his apparent A game, but still was able to impose his will on the defense and find a to drag a tired Bulls team to overtime. He seemed to have some big lapse in energy, as evidenced by having 5 steals (burst) and 5 fouls (laziness). Regardless, this is a lost game when we speak about MJ and his greatest scoring games.