What is the highest-scoring game in NBA history?

Fans at State Farm Arena were treated to a show on Sunday night, with the Chicago Bulls edging out the Atlanta Hawks 152-150 in a relatively rare 300-plus-point game.

The matchup in Georgia was the highest-scoring contest of the NBA season so far, and although it fell well short of the league’s all-time record, it still had plenty of fans across the country asking the same question.

The NBA’s highest-scoring game ever

Incredibly, the highest-scoring NBA game in history saw the Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets combine for 370 points on December 13, 1983. That total did include triple overtime, but even so, it remains a staggering number more than four decades later.

Perhaps even more remarkably, given the final scoreline, the Pistons won by just two points at the now-demolished McNichols Arena in Denver.

A league-record four players scored more than 40 points in that game, including the Nuggets’ Kiki Vandeweghe, who poured in a game-high 51.

Regulation time only: How close did Bulls vs. Hawks really get?

As for the highest-scoring game in regulation time, that came on November 2, 1990, when the Nuggets were again on the losing end, this time against the Golden State Warriors in a 162-158 defeat. Those 320 combined points were only 18 more than what the Bulls and Hawks served up on Sunday night.

What is the highest-scoring NBA playoff game?

Had the weekend’s matchup between Atlanta and Chicago taken place in the playoffs, it would have gone down as the second-highest scoring postseason game in NBA history. The only playoff contest to surpass 300 points remains the 153-151 clash between the Portland Trail Blazers and Phoenix Suns on May 11, 1992, a game that required two overtime periods to settle.

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