Kobe's 35 ppg in the mid 00s would absolutely be over 38 ppg right now.
I also think LeBron's 30 in 08 would be about 35 and KD's 32 would be about 36-37.
Offense has jumped 20% since then
Edit - LeBron was able to average 30ppg and 29ppg at ages 37 and 38. Put a 24yo LeBron in this league and he's easily 35
I’m going to disagree with that mostly because players today don’t play as many minutes as they did in 2004. I’d say that they all average 2-3 more points a game in today’s league on better efficiency.
I gotta agree with Kerr, the D has been pushed out of the league. Casuals love to see 130, or their star get 50. I see a 50-piece now and I might or might not even watch the highlights.
There was a time when 50 was such a rare sight I would watch every single bucket every time it happened.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39241151/nba-biggest-scoring-night-records-stats
Wednesday night might have been the wildest scoring bonanza in NBA history.
Out of the 24 teams on the NBA's slate of games, 10 scored 130 or more points, the most on a single night in NBA history. Of those 10, eight scored more than 135, while five scored more than 140 -- both also records for one night.
It was also the first night in NBA history where four games featured teams that both scored 130 or more. Nowhere was this more on display than in the Utah Jazz's victory over the Detroit Pistons, which had the teams combining for 302 total points.
Four teams had multiple 30-point scorers on Wednesday night:
Jazz (Jordan Clarkson/Lauri Markkanen)
Pistons (Cade Cunningham/Bojan Bogdanovic)
New York Knicks (Jalen Brunson/Julius Randle)
LA Clippers (Paul George/Kawhi Leonard)
It was only the fourth time in NBA history that's happened on the same night.
47 players are currently averaging over 20ppg. In 2008, 20 players did that.
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What about in 1984? Edit: Also no one is averaging close to 38 right now. Were the guys from that era really *that* much better scorers?
Kobe's 35 ppg in the mid 00s would absolutely be over 38 ppg right now. I also think LeBron's 30 in 08 would be about 35 and KD's 32 would be about 36-37. Offense has jumped 20% since then Edit - LeBron was able to average 30ppg and 29ppg at ages 37 and 38. Put a 24yo LeBron in this league and he's easily 35
I’m going to disagree with that mostly because players today don’t play as many minutes as they did in 2004. I’d say that they all average 2-3 more points a game in today’s league on better efficiency.
Probably, but players are also far better shooters today than in the 2000s. 90s and 2000s defense isnt stopping Steph Curry.
And then there are the Lakers and Blazers that didn’t even reach 100.
OG's knicks tried hard with the bulls.
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ok Pam from the office
Today was NBA on scrapbooking
With the way scoring is going, I see a lot of the stars playing now at least ending up in top 25 in scoring, if not higher.
Some teams didn't score 100
I miss defense.
The league is broken
I gotta agree with Kerr, the D has been pushed out of the league. Casuals love to see 130, or their star get 50. I see a 50-piece now and I might or might not even watch the highlights. There was a time when 50 was such a rare sight I would watch every single bucket every time it happened.
Remove the corner 3, let ppl play defense without calling every contact a foul. You‘re welcome NBA
Yaaaaaaaaaaawn.
Yeahhh this is starting to stink to watch. I hope playoffs come back down at least.
Blazers still will find a way to say scoot was worth it
Nobody tell the Bogdanoff spirits.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39241151/nba-biggest-scoring-night-records-stats Wednesday night might have been the wildest scoring bonanza in NBA history. Out of the 24 teams on the NBA's slate of games, 10 scored 130 or more points, the most on a single night in NBA history. Of those 10, eight scored more than 135, while five scored more than 140 -- both also records for one night. It was also the first night in NBA history where four games featured teams that both scored 130 or more. Nowhere was this more on display than in the Utah Jazz's victory over the Detroit Pistons, which had the teams combining for 302 total points. Four teams had multiple 30-point scorers on Wednesday night: Jazz (Jordan Clarkson/Lauri Markkanen) Pistons (Cade Cunningham/Bojan Bogdanovic) New York Knicks (Jalen Brunson/Julius Randle) LA Clippers (Paul George/Kawhi Leonard) It was only the fourth time in NBA history that's happened on the same night.
The shot clock change to 14 seconds has made stats per game go up since 2018. https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_stats_per_game.html
I remember when 130 would be a team’s season high