Player Spotlight - Elgin Baylor

This week's spotlight will look at the dopest small forward of the 1960s, Elgin Baylor.

• NBA Rookie of the Year (1959)
• All-NBA First Team 10 times (1959-65, 67-69)
• Eleven-time NBA All-Star (1959-65, 1967-70)
• NBA All-Star Game Co-MVP (1959)
• Holds NBA Finals single-game record for most points (61) on April 24, 1962 against the Boston Celtics
• Scored 71 points (8th highest in history) against the New York Knicks (Nov. 15, 1960)
• Scored 23,149 points in only 846 games (27.4 points per game, fourth best all-time) and averaged 30 points or more three times (1961-63)
• Retired as NBA's third all-time leading scorer
• Retired as fifth leading scorer in All-Star Game history (19.8 points per game)
• Ranked sixth in NBA Finals all-time scoring (26.4 in 44 games)
• Ranked seventh in NBA playoffs all-time scoring (27.0 in 134 games)
• NBA 35th Anniversary Team (1980)
• NBA 50th Anniversary Teams (1996)
• NBA Executive of the Year (2006)
• 87 Career 40-point games in the regular season^[3] (4th All-time behind Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant)