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#3 Elgin Baylor - 1962 NBA Finals
![Elgin Baylor of the LA Lakers in the 1962 NBA Finals [Source: Los Angeles Times]](https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/editor/2021/07/f7b9a-16261109263148-800.jpg)
Average: 40.6 points per game across 7 games.
Elgin Baylor is one of the NBA's greatest athletes never to have won an NBA Finals series. He spent 14 seasons with the Minneapolis/ LA Lakers and was an 11-time All-Star.
In the 1962 NBA Finals, Baylor did the unthinkable and dropped the only 60+-point game in NBA Finals history, registering 61 points and 22 rebounds in Game 5 against the Boston Celtics.
He averaged 40.6 points per game in seven games in that NBA Finals series but lost Game 7 to the Bill Russell-led Celtics dynasty.
Elgin Baylor dropped 35 points and 17 rebounds in Game 1, 36 points and 12 rebounds in Game 2, 39 points and 23 rebounds in Game 3, 38 points and 14 rebounds in Game 4, 61 points and 22 rebounds in Game 5, 34 points and 15 rebounds in Game 6, and 41 points and 22 rebounds in Game 7 to cap off a historic NBA Finals run.
#2 Rick Barry - 1967 NBA Finals
Average: 40.8 points per game across 6 games.
In his sophomore season in the NBA, Rick Barry led the San Francisco Warriors to the NBA Finals on his playoff debut. He fell short in six games to Wilt Chamberlain's 76ers, though, the new team in Philadelphia that had replaced the Warriors.
Barry averaged a whopping 40.8 points per game as a 23-year-old after a historic NBA playoff run. He dropped 55 points and 12 rebounds in Game 3 to earn his first-ever NBA Finals victory, the second-highest scoring total in an NBA Finals game since Elgin Baylor's 61 points in 1962.
He led the Warriors franchise to the 1975 NBA championship, winning the Finals MVP in the process, but many have forgotten his historic second-year playoff run.
He dropped 37 points in Game 1, 30 points and 10 rebounds in Game 2, 55 points and 12 rebounds in Game 3, 43 points in Game 4, 36 points and 10 rebounds in Game 5, and 44 points in Game 6 to cement his legacy as one of the best NBA Finals performers of all time.
#1 Michael Jordan - 1993 NBA Finals
Average: 41 points per game across 6 games.
Looking to achieve a three peat, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls took on the reigning league MVP, Charles Barkley, and the Phoenix Suns.
Jordan had already won three league MVPs, two Finals MVPs and seven scoring titles by this point, so he was always the player in the limelight. The Suns' entire defensive attention was on Jordan, yet he managed to drop 41 points per game in that NBA Finals, the most by any player.
He dropped four straight 40+-point games, including 55 points in Game 4 in Phoenix, tied with Rick Barry for the second-highest scoring total in NBA history behind Elgin Baylor's 61.
Michael Jordan had 31 points and five steals in Game 1, 42 points and 12 rebounds in Game 2, 44 points in Game 3, 55 points in Game 4, 41 points in Game 5. and 33 points in Game 6 to win his third straight NBA title and Finals MVP award.
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