Harden's streak is the talk of the town here in Houston, but it made me wonder about Wilt's amazing season averaging 50.4 points a game. I looked over his game logs. Here are some interesting factoids about the 1961-1962 season:
His lowest scoring games that season were:
26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34 (The lowest 4 were all vs BOS)
He scored over 30 points for 65 straight games!
He scored 35 or more for 34 straight games.
He scored over 44 points for 14 straight games.
He scored over 50 points in 12 of 13 games.
When he scored his 100 points in one game, he also had scored 251 points in the 4 games surrounding that game (62.8ppg), making the 5 game stretch at 70.2 ppg.
He scored just 22 in the game 7 loss to the Celtics in the 1962 playoffs. In that series, he had 131 rebound in game 1-4, but he had just 57 in the last 3. He averaged 38 ppg in games 1-4 and 28 in games 5-7.
I know it was a different era, but Wilt also had 25.7 rebounds per game that year. (He had 43 in one game!)