As the highest hall of basketball in the world, the NBA has the most complete team and player salary rules, mature business operation model, powerful broadcast method and the most scientific material selection mechanism. It is no exaggeration to say that the professionalism of the NBA is placed in many sports leagues in the world, which is also TOP level, and it is worth learning from other leagues, such as our country's CBA can learn this set of things in the NBA.
For ordinary fans, the professionalism of the NBA in data statistics is the most intuitively felt, after all, in sports competitions, data is the most important, and it is precisely because there are very professional data statistics methods, so there will be a variety of very detailed records.
2023 is the 76th year of the NBA, and after 76 years of continuous development, the difficulty of these many records is also increasing, today let's take an inventory, in the past 40 years, the league's five most difficult and valuable records.
As for why it is nearly 40 years, it is because from the eighties of the last century to the present, the NBA is more perfect, professional and competitive than the previous 50s, 60s and 70s.
Fifth, Russell Westbrook: Averaged a triple-double four times per game
In 2015-16, this was a very sad season for the Thunder, and they looked like the championship winners of that season when they led the Warriors 3-1 with a 73-1 victory in the Western Conference finals, but they were turned around by the Warriors, but even so, the future of the Thunder is bright, as long as they strengthen again in the offseason, they have a better chance of hitting the championship, because Wei Shao seems to have become more mature and calmer.
At that time, Wei Shao was willing to make great changes for the Thunder, but who would have thought that Durant's decision to choose to leave in the summer of 2016 made all this a phantom, and this also made Wei Shao, who was ready to make greater changes for Durant and the team, to an extreme - data-only theory.
Since you choose to pursue data, you have to do a big job, for Wei Shao, the most feasible and more impactful data is to achieve the data of averaging triple-doubles per game in the season, after all, this is only Oscar Robertson in the history of the NBA in the 1961-62 season (average 30+12+11 per game), so at the beginning of the 2016-17 season, Wei Shao began his crazy triple-double journey, and throughout the season, he got a total of 42 triple-doubles, In the end, he also achieved the great achievement of averaging a triple-double per game this season (31.6+10.7+10.6), and by the way, he also won the scoring title.
Because the impact of averaging a triple-double per game this season was too great, even though the Thunder's record that season was only 47-35, the sixth record in the West, Wei Shao was successfully elected regular season MVP. Some things are enough for just once, but too many times are not beautiful, even if it is crazy statistics such as averaging a triple-double per game this season.
If Wei Shao stops at this time, his wind evaluation will definitely be much better than today, but in the next 17-18, 18-19 seasons, Wei Shao averaged a triple-double, and in the 20-21 season, he got another average triple-double, if not for the 19-20 season to go to the Rockets, because the ball is relatively less much, it is estimated that with Wei Shao's personality, he can really achieve five consecutive triple-doubles per game.
Wei Shao averaged triple-double season stats:
16-17 season - 31.6 points + 10.7 rebounds + 10.6 assists
17-18 season - 25.4 points, 10.1 rebounds, 10.3 assists
18-19 season – 22.9 points, 11.1 rebounds, 10.7 assists
20-21 season - 22.2 points, 11.5 rebounds, 11.7 assists
From the perspective of the development of modern basketball and the comprehensiveness of player technology and ability, the difficulty of achieving an average triple-double per game is relatively not so difficult, as long as there is a heart to do it, there are absolutely people who can do it, before Wilson, James has the ability to impact the average triple-double, and now, all-round players such as Doncic and Jokic also have the ability to impact. But if a player wants to average a triple-double four times per game, including three consecutive seasons, this is really difficult, few people can have this mentality of Wei Shao, and it is estimated that no one will be as obsessed with triple-doubles as Wei Shao in the future!
It is worth mentioning that so far, Jokic's statistics are really averaging a triple-double (24.7 points, 11.5 rebounds and 10.1 assists).
Fourth, Derek Ross: Youngest Regular Season MVP (22 years, 191 days)
Rose is another big regret in NBA history, although he is still playing in the league at the age of 34, but because of a series of major injuries, Rose has not fully realized his talent, and we have not been able to see how strong Rose is at his peak.
As the top pick in 2008, Ross showed the strength and potential that a champion should have as soon as he entered the league. In his rookie season, he averaged 16.8 points, 3.9 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game, and led the Bulls, who were still rotting last season, to the playoffs (41-41, seventh in the East), and incidentally pocketed the Rookie of the Year award.
In 2009-10, Rose continued to improve in his second year of career, not only leading the Bulls to the playoffs again (41-41 and eighth in the East), but also being selected as an All-Star by averaging 20.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 6 assists per game.
In the 2010-11 season, in his third year of his career, Rose transformed into the league's top superstar, playing in 81 games that season, averaging 25.0 points, 4.1 rebounds, 7.7 assists and 1.0 steals per game, and under his leadership, the Bulls played a 62-20 league first-place record and entered the playoffs strongly. Because of his outstanding performance and team-leading record, Rose defeated Howard, who had 643 votes, with 1182 votes and was elected regular season MVP, and he was only 22 years old (22 years, 191 days), so he became the youngest regular season MVP in NBA history (previously Unseld at 23 years and 9 days).
Ross received 113 of the 121 first-place votes in that year's MVP selection, with the remaining 8 going to James (4), Howard (3), and Kobe Bryant (1).
In the subsequent playoffs, the Bulls first eliminated the Pacers 4-1 in the first round, then the Hawks 4-2 in the second round, and finally lost 4-1 to the Heat led by James, Wade and Bosh in the Eastern Conference Finals. This season, Rose not only won the MVP, but also was named to the All-Star Eastern Conference starting team and entered the league's All-Tournament First Team, at this time he is one of the league's top superstars.
Why is it said that Rose's record for youngest regular-season MVP is hard to break?
22 years and 191 days, which is roughly the third or fourth year of a player's career, at this stage, a player can be an All-Star in the season and be selected to the best team, which is already very, very, very good, but if you want to win the MVP, you have to lead the team to play the best record in the league, and then play the top performance, so that you have a chance, but it is too difficult to balance personal performance with the team's first record in the league.
Take Doncic as an example, Doncic is one of the strongest rookies in history, few people have played better than him as soon as he entered the league, he played 28+9+8 per game in the second to fourth years of his career, and then he was also selected as an All-Star and All-Star team, but in this rookie four years, he was never a favorite candidate for regular season MVP because his team's record was not enough. Even a player like Doncic who has strong leadership ability and crazy individual performance has not been able to break Rose's youngest regular-season MVP record, so who else can do it?
Third, Kobe Bryant: 81 points per game
In the matter of scoring, Kobe has not served anyone, in terms of scoring explosiveness, even Jordan is not as good as Kobe, the battle of retirement, Kobe can drag his injury-ridden body and cut 60 points at the age of 36, let's say who else!
The highest single-game score in NBA history is Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points, but considering the imperfection of basketball rules at that time, Chamberlain and the whole team helped deliberately brush points, so Kobe Bry's single game of 81 points is more valuable and convincing.
On January 22, 2006, the Lakers sat home against the Raptors, which was an ordinary regular game in every way, and the entire first half was played, even if Kobe Bryant scored 26 points in the half, the Lakers still trailed the Raptors by 11 points 49-60, and it looks like the game is going to enter garbage time early in the second half.
In fact, the Lakers once trailed the Raptors by as many as 18 points in the third quarter of the game, and 18 points were very difficult to chase in the era when three-pointers had not yet become mainstream, but at this time, Kobe Bryant had entered a supergod state, he completely took over the game, in the third quarter, Kobe Bryant scored 27 points in a single quarter and led the team to a single-quarter net win by 20 points, and in the fourth quarter, Kobe continued to sweep 28 points to seal the victory.
After Kobe Bryant scored his 81st point of the game, there were still a few minutes left in the game, if he continued to play, with his condition, impacting 90 points is a high probability event, if willing to brush points, 100 points is not impossible, after all, the Raptors' defensive strategy for him was a single defense from beginning to end, but he decisively chose to rest.
28 of 46 shots in the game, like a god under the ordinary, he scored 81 points!
Believe it or not, Kobe's 81 points in the 05-06 season is definitely the most difficult single-game scoring performance in NBA history, and it is basically impossible for latecomers to surpass or equal, and its difficulty is mainly reflected in the following aspects:
First of all, you must have super scoring ability;
Secondly, your opponent must show the same level in that game, so that the game can stalemate to the end, otherwise it will collapse early, and both sides can only clock in early;
Also, your opponent's defensive strategy against you must be a single defense, if the opponent is crazy regardless of victory or defeat, then no matter how good the offensive state is, it is useless;
Most importantly, you have to win the final game, lose to get a high score, and people will say you are a data brush, like the game where Booker scored 70 points against the Celtics, which is still criticized to this day.
Second, LeBron James: 30,000 points + 10,000 rebounds + 10,000 assists (Project 311)
James, such an all-rounded, and career life is so long, and the level of personal competition is so strong, looking at the entire NBA history is also the only one, Magic and Bird are very versatile, but Magic's scoring ability is not as good as James, Bird's career life is not as good as James (mainly physical fitness can not keep up), Jordan's scoring ability is the strongest in history, but he is not as versatile as James.
A 37-year-old or 38-year-old can still play an average of 30+ per game for two consecutive seasons, which is basically unprecedented!
In the 2021-22 season, James successfully unlocked the "311" achievement of 30,000 points + 10,000 rebounds + 10,000 assists at the end of the season, and this data achievement is not to mention in the history of the NBA, that is, looking at the basketball league around the world, James is the first, in the next 30 years, who can do "211" is already very remarkable, want to break James's record, only in the game is possible.
What's even more crazy is that James hasn't stopped yet, and not long ago he successfully completed the surpass of Abdul-Jabbar's all-time scoring champion (38,387 points). James' current career total is 38,411 points, and there are 23 Lakers regular season games left this season, and if James plays all games and averages 25 points per game, he will score 38,986 points at the end of the regular season.
With James' current competitive state and physical condition, it is completely predictable to average about 25 points per game next season, as long as he plays 41 more games, he can score 40,000 points, and then "311" will become "411", and when James retires, this total data will probably stay at 42,000 points, 12,000 rebounds and 12,000 assists (even if it does not reach it, it is not too different).
"211" is already very difficult, "311" is even more difficult, it is estimated that it can only exist in the game, and the "411" that has basically been locked, this difficulty, I don't know how to describe it.
First, Michael Jordan: 10 consecutive scoring titles in his career
As the undisputed first person in basketball history, Michael Jordan, known as the "god of basketball", is too powerful, and it is precisely because he is so strong that there are many ifs in his body, such as the following two:
First if: If he hadn't chosen to retire after winning the first three-game win in '93, he would have very likely to impact Bill Russell's eight-game winning streak with the Celtics, eight consecutive championships + eight consecutive FMVP, which is scary to think about. At the same time, he will complete his complete monopoly on NBA season scoring champions (12 in a row from '86-'87 to '97'98).
Second, if Jordan had not chosen to retire in '93 and '98, but had played until 2003, when he retired for the third time, he would have surpassed Abdul-Jabbar's all-time scoring title before James, and would have achieved 40,000 career points ahead of James.
In Jordan's 10 scoring streaks, 8 of them were scored by averaging 30 + points per game, and there were two averages of more than 35 points per game, 37.1 points in the 86-87 season and 35 points in the 87-88 season (third and fourth years of his career).
The scoring king is won every year, but in addition to Jordan, the most scoring king in NBA history is only Chamberlain's 7 times (that is taken in ancient times), the most active Durant (4 times), who is as strong as Kobe Bryant is only twice, as the former all-time scoring king and the current all-time scoring champion Abdul-Jabbar and James are 2 times and 1 time respectively.
To be honest, so many superstars and supergiants in history may not have 10 years at the peak of their careers, and even their career life may not have 10 years, which is one of the reasons why Jordan is called the god of basketball.