The 12 Best Individual NBA Playoff Performances Over the Past 30 Years

2. Michael Jordan, 4/29/1992

The 1991-92 Bulls won 67 regular season games and their second league title in two years. Wedged between those two feats was a quick, three-game series in the first round of the playoffs. In that series, Jordan again dominated, but this time, the victim was the Miami Heat. They lost in three straight, with the last coming on their home court.

Jordan, in that last contest, threw down 56 points on 20 of 30 shooting and 16 of 18 from the charity stripe. Also with 5 assists, he posted an offensive rating of 152 despite a voluminous 40.5% usage. Chicago won 119 to 114 and Jordan finished the game with a 49.8 Game Score.