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Stephen Curry led the league with an average of 30.1 points in the 2015–16 season and became the first player to win the title shooting 50–40–90 in a season. Russell Westbrook led the league with an average of 31.6 points in the 2016–17 season, when he also became the second NBA player to average a triple-double in a season.
Pete Maravich of LSU holds the all-time NCAA Division I records for career scoring (3,667) and average (44.2). [3] [4] [5] His three consecutive scoring titles from 1968 to 1970 are also the three highest single-season averages in NCAA history. [3] Nine players have earned multiple scoring titles.
It adopted the name National Basketball Association at the start of the 1949–50 season when it merged with the National Basketball League (NBL). [1] The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball , which is recognized by FIBA (a French acronym for "International Basketball Federation") as the National Governing Body (NGB) for basketball in the ...
Every year, the National Basketball Association (NBA) awards titles to various leaders in the five basketball statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots.
The minutes played statistics are recorded as far back as the 1951–52 season when statistics on minutes were first compiled by the National Basketball Association (NBA). Fifteen times the average leader has played fewer than 40 minutes per game and eight times the leader has played more than 46 minutes per game.
Examples of tempo-free statistics including the following [3] [4] Pace: Possessions per game (typically ranges from 60 to 75) PPP: Points per possession, the points a team score for each possession regardless of a team's pace; TO%: Turnover percentage, the measure of how often a team loses possession of the ball before creating a scoring ...
Actually, if we took a player that was completely average in every other respect for the 2006–07 season—rebounds, free throws, assists, turnovers, etc.—and gave him a league-average rate of shots, and all of them were 2-pointers, and he shot 30.4%, he'd end up with a PER of 7.18.
The National Basketball League's (NBL) scoring title was awarded to the player with the most total points in a given season. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Bobby McDermott holds the NBL all-time record for career points scored (3,583), while fellow Hall of Famer George Mikan holds the single season points (1,195 ...