How difficult is it to score 2,800 points in a single season?

The most intuitive calculation is that if a star plays 80 regular season games in a season, he can only score 2,800 points per game before he can score a great feat of 2,800 points per season.

But the fact is that it is not easy for a star to maintain a super high attendance rate of 80 games!

This means that he missed only two games during the long regular season journey, with an attendance rate of 97.6%!

As a comparison, last season the league issued a selection criteria for various awards, one of which is the requirement that the stars have a guaranteed 65 games to be qualified for the selection.

And it is precisely because of this regulation that many stars have won the final selection of various awards - Brown, Durant, Doncic, Lillard, Vinbanyama, Davis, Embiid, Ball, Morant, and Leonard...

Average of 35 points per game is also like an unattainable mountain!

Let alone the miracle of the ancient great Chamberlain who averaged 50.4 points per game in the 1961-1962 season (his total score of 4,029 points in that season), the greatest scoring season of the century is Jordan, who averaged 37.1 points per game in the 1986-87 season. In that season, Jordan scored 3041 points in the season, and officially surpassed the 3,000-point mark.

, and Harden followed closely in the 2018-19 season, setting the highest average score after Jordan (37.1 points per game in the 1986-87 season).

Don't forget that he is as strong as Harden, with a total score of 2,867 points that season, which is still not small compared to Jordan.

It is worth mentioning that Harden's scoring performance in 2019 was the highest average score per game in a single season in the 21st century, surpassing Kobe's 35.4 points in the 2005-06 season.

When a star participates in less than 80 games in the regular season, it means that he must average more than 35 points per game, and he is expected to achieve the 2,800-point feat, which is extremely difficult. Therefore, in the long NBA history, only six players have counted the stars who scored at least 2,800 in a single season.

Wilt Chamberlain (4 times), he is also the only player in NBA history to score more than 4,000 points in a single season.

Jordan (2 times), Harden 1 time, Abdul Jabbar (1971-72 season, total score of 2842 points), and Kobe played this feat in the 2005-06 season.

In that season, Kobe played 80 games, averaged 41 minutes per game, averaged 35.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, and the final total score of the season was frozen to 2,832 points.

That was that summer, Kobe announced that his jersey number was 24, saying that he would devote 24 hours a day to basketball.

Bob McAdu scored a total score of 2831 points in the 1974-75 season.

In the 1986-87 season, Jordan played the first season of the Gods!

Jordan played in 82 games, averaging 35 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 3.2 steals and 1.6 blocks, and scored 2,868 points in the season, winning the scoring champion without any suspense.

In addition, the best defensive player that year, regular season MVP, steal king, best lineup team, best defensive team team, all the All-Star MVPs were all unceremoniously taken into the lottery, and they were like a Grand Slam!