NBA Records: The Complete All-Time Record Book (2025-26 Season)

Chasing down a single stat across a dozen different sites gets old fast, especially when half the pages haven’t been touched since 2019. This page pulls every major NBA record into one place and keeps it updated as the 2025-26 season unfolds, so you get one trustworthy answer instead of ten conflicting ones. Below you’ll find career scoring marks, single-game records, franchise records, and the current names sitting atop the NBA record book right now.

Most Career Points in NBA History

The career scoring record sits at the top of every NBA records conversation. LeBron James passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s long-standing mark during the 2023 season and continues to add to his total in 2025-26. Behind him, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, and Kareem round out a list built almost entirely on longevity as much as scoring average. Reaching this tier of the NBA record book takes close to two decades of consistent, injury-managed production.

Single-Game Scoring Records

Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game in 1962 remains the single most untouchable entry in the NBA records archive. No player has come within 30 points of it in the modern era, and pace-of-play changes make it increasingly unlikely anyone ever will. Kobe Bryant’s 81-point night against Toronto in 2006 is the closest any player has come since, and it still stands as the best individual scoring performance of the three-point era.

NBA Records for Assists and Rebounds

Career assist and rebound records reward a different kind of durability. John Stockton’s assist total remains untouched by a wide margin, while Wilt Chamberlain also holds the career rebounding record from an era of shorter shot clocks and higher offensive rebound rates. On the single-game side, Scott Skiles’ 30-assist game and Chamberlain’s 55-rebound outing are two of the most cited entries in the NBA record book.

Most Championships Won by a Franchise

The Boston Celtics hold the record for most NBA championships, a total built across multiple dynasties from the Bill Russell era through more recent title runs. The Los Angeles Lakers sit just behind them, and both franchises have combined for well over half of all championships awarded since the league’s founding. Team-level NBA records like this one tend to move far more slowly than individual stats.

Longest Winning Streaks in NBA History

The 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers won 33 consecutive games, a streak that remains the longest in NBA history and one of the most cited records across all of professional sports. No team has seriously threatened the mark in the modern schedule, where back-to-backs and load management make extended streaks harder to sustain.

Regular Season Win Records

The 2015-16 Golden State Warriors set the single-season wins record at 73, edging past the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ 72-win mark. Both teams are frequently compared in NBA records discussions since they represent two different eras of dominant regular-season basketball, separated by two decades of rule and pace changes.

Playoff Records That Rarely Get Broken

Playoff basketball produces its own separate tier of NBA records. Michael Jordan’s 63-point playoff game against Boston in 1986 remains the standard for postseason scoring, while the Golden State Warriors’ run of five straight Finals appearances from 2015 to 2019 stands as one of the most dominant playoff stretches in recent memory.

NBA Records Likely to Fall in 2025-26

A handful of active players are within range of meaningful NBA records this season. Scoring, three-point, and games-played milestones are the ones worth tracking closest, since active stars can close multi-season gaps faster than most fans expect. This section gets refreshed as the season progresses, so bookmark it if you want the current pace rather than a stale preseason projection.

All-Time Career Scoring Leaders

Franchise Records by Team

Every franchise carries its own internal NBA records for points, rebounds, and career appearances, separate from the league-wide totals. These team-level marks matter to fans just as much as the global ones, since they define a franchise’s identity across decades of roster turnover, relocations, and rebuilds.

Youngest and Oldest Record Holders

Some NBA records belong to players at the very start of their careers, like the youngest players to reach scoring milestones, while others belong to veterans performing well past the age most players retire. Both ends of that spectrum get tracked closely, since age-adjusted records tell a different story than raw career totals.

How These Records Are Tracked and Verified

Every figure on this page is checked against official NBA and Basketball Reference statistics before publication, and updated as the current season adds new context. Records change quickly during an active season, so treat any single-game or streak figure as current as of the season referenced above rather than a permanent fact.

Frequently Asked Questions

Track Every NBA Record All Season Long

New milestones get set every week once the season is underway. Bookmark this page for the latest updates to the NBA record book as the 2025-26 season plays out.

Sources: NBA.com official statistics, Basketball Reference. Updated for the 2025-26 season.