It’s an understatement to say that the NBA game has really taken to the three-point shot. The shot has become so ingrained in team offenses that with each passing season, players, teams, and the overall league continue to heave up […]
Basketball Milestones
List: NBA Career Highs in Points for 501 Active and Retired NBA Players (updated)
If you were ever curious for a particular NBA player’s career high in points, you’ve most likely done a search and found them at a data-aggregator site like RealGM, sorted through Basketball Reference, or came across a specific article about […]
There’s Been FOUR Quadruple-Doubles (not 5) in NBA History
Since it’s humanly possible to record a quintuple-double, I won’t say that the quadruple-double is the most difficult to pull off in the multi-faceted statistic category. Here are the four NBA players that have achieved quadruple doubles There have been just […]
Unexpected Stats: These 20 NBA Superstars Never Reached 20,000 Points
As of this post, there are exactly 50 NBA players that have scored 20,000 points in their career. That long exclusive list is no doubt filled with some of the league’s greatest players in the history of the league. It […]
As DeMar DeRozan Scores 20,000th Career Point, What Will Be His Legacy?
DeMar DeRozan will join a really exclusive club when he scores his 7th point against his former team the San Antonio Spurs on Friday, October 28th. That’s because his seventh point will make DeRozan the 50th player in the history […]
Harden is the 7th youngest to 20,000 points, but only 17th fastest in NBA history
As expected this season, James Harden scored his 20,000th NBA point. The bearded superstar walked into last night’s game with 19,990 points. He surpassed 20,000 points last night in a blowout win over the over matched Minnesota Timberwolves 139-109 last […]
Steph Curry moves past Larry Bird in NBA Finals points, Klay Thompson to pass Tony Parker
In their game five win, the Golden State Warriors not only extended the NBA Finals series to the sixth game; moving the series back to Oakland with a chance to tie the series up, but Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin […]
There’s only six NBA players to pass for 10,000 assists in NBA history
Of the main offensive statistical categories, the assist is the probably the most difficult to accumulate. What we mean is that when it comes to points, accumulating 20,000 points isn’t easy per se, but there’s nearly 50 players that have […]
The 25 NBA players that scored the most points, but never made an NBA All-Star game
Every year around the All-Star Game, there’s always talk about the players that deserved to be there, but didn’t make the team for whatever reason. We remember writing this 2015 post on Damian Lillard being one of biggest all-star snubs […]
The 50 NBA players with the most career assists in NBA history
When you think of the NBA assist, no doubt you think of the best point men in the history of the game, you think of players like Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, John Stockton, Jason Kidd, and Bob Cousy, yet it […]
Vince Carter dunks his way into the 25,000 point club (featuring 21 other scoring legends)
In his 21st season, Vince Carter became the 22nd player to hit the 25,000 point milestone. It came on a dunk versus the Toronto Raptors, at that. Carter got the final two points of the 15 points he needed in […]
Here’s the oldest NBA players to score 40, 50, 60 points (or more) in a game
Don’t get it twisted, old NBA players are still supremely talented. Even when they’re past their prime, don’t think you’d start dominating them at your local YMCA. Even a recently-retired NBA player could easily score 50 points on you without […]
These 63 players are the all-time leading scorers with most points in NBA Finals history
No doubt, scoring is huge in basketball. for the most part, players make it into the NBA based on their advanced abilities and skill set to put the ball in the basket. For the special players that can really fill […]
The 25 oldest NBA players with the highest scoring averages (>20 ppg)
With our recent post about LeBron James‘ amazing season at the age of 33 and watching a 40-year old Vince Carter still dunking, we were curious as to whom were oldest players that had the highest scoring average in NBA history. […]
Carmelo Anthony scores 25,000th point, joins 20 other NBA legends to do so
Just a few days after fellow 2003-draftee LeBron scored his 30,000th point and four years after he hit the 20,000 point barrier, Carmelo Anthony scored his 25,000th point tonight. For his 25,000th point, Carmelo hit the first of two free throws […]
These NBA players are the youngest and fastest to score 25,000 points
As we’ve discussed in previous scoring milestone posts, the youngest to score X amount of points doesn’t mean that they’re the fastest to that same point milestone. The youngest to 20,000, 25,000 or 30,000 points depends on so many different […]
LeBron James is youngest, but not fastest NBA player to score 30,000 points
At just 33 years old, LeBron James will become the youngest player to the 30,000 point plateau when he adds the 7 points against the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday. The milestone came after scoring 18 points in a historic 148-124 […]
Kevin Durant scores 20,000 points, joins 43 other players in 20K club
Man that was fast. Well, relatively fast. Tonight, Kevin Durant became just the 44th player in NBA history to join 20,000 point club. If it seems like a lot of players have hit this milestone recently, you’re right. Along with […]
The 33 players with the biggest jumps in scoring average in NBA history
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kristaps Porzingis and Victor Oladipo are having banner years where they’ve upped their scoring averages by approximately 7 points per game — that’s not insignificant, but where do those increases sit in NBA history? That got us wondering […]
After 30,000 point milestone, can LeBron become NBA’s all-time leading scoring?
Unless LeBron James gets injured or his play drops significantly this season, he’s going to be the seventh player in NBA history to ever score 30,000 regular season points. Update: LeBron scores 30,000th point, youngest ever NBA player to do so […]
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