The average player who can score more than 30 points per game is almost the performance of the top scorer in a single season in the past.
However, in this era of high scoring, 30 points per game seems to have become the daily routine of many players.
So far, seven players in the league have scored more than 30 points per game this season, which is expected to break the record high.
In the 1961-62 season, six players crossed the threshold, and Wilt Chamberlain, a plug-in player, ranked first with 50.3 points. Although there is no such unique monster as Chamberlain now, it is replaced by a hundred flowers of fire.
Joel Embeid, the center of the 76ers, currently ranks first with an average of 33.8 points per game. He dominated the scoring list with 30.6 points last year. Among the top 15 players in active service, Abed is also the only pure center.
Through comparison, it can be more clearly shown how exaggerated the current scoring inflation is. In the past seven seasons, only seven players in the NBA have scored more than 30 points per game, of which James Harden’s 36.1 points per game in the 2018-19 season is the highest. At present, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who scored 31 points per game, has won 10 of the top scoring figures in the past 15 seasons, but at present he only ranks fifth in this season.
Recently, more and more experts have analyzed the wave of high score in the league. Ten years ago, the average score per game of each team was only 98.1 points, and this season has reached 113 points. Among these reasons, there are a variety of reasons, including faster attack rhythm, more three-point projection, more accurate free throw hit rate, and so on, creating an irresistible trend of high score.