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National Basketball Association single-season scoring leaders Rank Season Player Team Games FGM 3PM FTM Pts PPG P/36 P/75P; 1 1961–62: Wilt Chamberlain* Philadelphia Warriors: 80 1,597 N/A: 835 4,029 50.4 37.4 N/A: 2 1962–63: Wilt Chamberlain* San Francisco Warriors: 80 1,463 N/A: 660 3,586 44.8 33.9 N/A: 3 1960–61: Wilt Chamberlain ...
Bill Russell won 11 championships with the Boston Celtics, an NBA record. The following is a list of National Basketball Association (NBA) players who won the most championships. The NBA is a major professional basketball league in North America. It was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). [1]
He holds the record for heaviest NFL player ever, at 410 lbs, weighing over 350 lbs in high school. [1] He was a two-way player. As a senior, he was a first-team All-state selection and was named as a Top 33 Pick by the Bloomington Herald-Times. As a defensive tackle, he had 8 fumble recoveries and 11 passes defensed.
This article contains two charts: The first chart is a list of the top 50 all-time scorers in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The list includes only points scored in regular season games. The second chart is a progressive list of the leading all-time NBA scorers. [1] LeBron James is the leading scorer in NBA history.
At 21 years and 197 days, Durant is the youngest scoring leader in NBA history, [12] averaging 30.1 points in the 2009–10 season. 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.
In the NBA, big men typically have longer playing careers than smaller men. [17] [18] Older centers and power forwards may have the luxury of pacing themselves while running the court, or they might station themselves in the post. [19] [20] Big men Parish, Willis, and Garnett all had relatively minor roles while playing in their respective 21st ...
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 ...
Most consecutive games with at least 30 points to start a season (excluding Wilt Chamberlain) 8 by Luka Doncic, 2022–23 [277] Most bench points, season; 1,556 by Ricky Pierce, 1990–91 [278] Most points by a non-All-Star, season; 2,244 by World B. Free, averaged 28.77ppg (played 78 gms), 1978–79 [279]