The Spurs team champion show Wen Banyama's summer league debut performance was smashed, scoring only 9 points on 2-of-13 shooting, and was also blocked and shaken once, which disappointed many fans! Although it is only a summer league, there are not many references, but you must know that the opposite is only rookies, undrafted, and marginal players who want to seek a short contract, if you meet real NBA players in the regular season, it is difficult to imagine what Venban Yama will be like.
The NBA has a top pick every year, but to be honest, not many can shine from the first year of rookie! Today we will talk about this topic: How difficult is it to get 2,000 points in the first year of a rookie? No one in the NBA has done it in nearly 47 years, not as strong as James! In the entire history of the alliance, there were only 5 people in total.
When it comes to this topic, many fans may mention the names of Jordan, Chamberlain and other gods. Although Jordan scored 2,313 points in his rookie season, he was not a champion, just the No. 3 rookie in '84, and that year's champion was Olajuwon, who scored 1,692 points in his rookie season. And Chamberlain averaged 37.6 points per game in his rookie season, a total of 2707 points, which is indeed outrageous, but he is not a draft player, he entered the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959 through the "Territorial Draft Rules".
5. Oscar Robertson
Robertson was selected by the Cincinnati Royals with the first pick in 1960, and averaged 30.5 points, 10.1 rebounds and 9.7 assists per game in his rookie season, accumulating 2165 points! The rookie averaged a triple-double in his second year! Before Wilson came along, fans even thought that triple-doubles per game were impossible to bust.
4. Walter Bellamy
The 2.11m center was the first pick in 1961 and was drafted by the Chicago Packers, the predecessor of the current Wizards. The rookie averaged 31.6 points and 19 rebounds per game in his first year, and accumulated 2495 points in the season, which can be said to be a big kill. But it was also his best year for numbers, with the player playing 14 seasons, starting with his first year as a rookie, and has slipped in every season since.
3. Erwin Hayes
Elvin Hayes, who is 2.06 meters tall, is a 1968 top pick, and is also a famous player in Rockets history, with 28.4 points and 17.1 rebounds in his first year as a rookie, accumulating 2327 points, but he is also similar to Bellamy, and has hardly played such perverted statistics since then. Hayes accompanied the Rockets in their move from San Diego to Houston, then with the Bullets, from Baltimore to the Wizards, and returned to retire with the Rockets later in his career.
2. Abdul-Jabbar
Finally a familiar name! Abdul-Jabbar was a 1969 champion in his first season with the Bucks, averaging 28.8 points and 14.5 rebounds per game, totaling 2,361 points in the season. Abdul-Jabbar has six championships, six regular-season MVPs, and second-highest total points in history, making him one of the greatest centers in NBA history.
1. David Thompson
Some fans may be confused, David Thompson, nicknamed Skywalker, was the 1975 champion. The Warriors Klay's father is called Machel Thompson, also translated as "Michael" or "Mitchell", and is the champion of 1978.
In 1975 , Thompson was drafted by both the NBA and the ABA League with the first pick in the first round, a rare double in history, but he chose to abandon the NBA and join the ABA League. Unexpectedly, after only 1 year of playing, the NBA merged with the ABA.
In his first year in the ABA League, Thompson averaged 26 points per game, a total of 2158 points in the season, and the next year merged into the NBA, Thompson averaged 25.9 points per game, a total of 2125 points in the season. Looking at both NBA and ABA history, Thompson meets the 2,000-point requirement.
Let's do a simple calculation, if you want to score 2,000 points in your rookie season, assuming that you attend 80 games in the season, you must average 25 points per game, which is still quite difficult for rookies! In recent decades, several digits have come close to this data. The Spurs' Duncan played in 82 games during his rookie season, averaging 21.1 points per game for a total of 1,731 points. James of the Cavaliers played 79 games, averaging 20.9 points per game, for a total of 1654 points, which is a bit worse. Philadelphia's Iverson averaged 23.5 points per game in his rookie season, his most capable scoring rookie in decades, but he only played 79 games, totaling 1,787 points.
Dear fans and friends, do you think that with the ability of Wen Banyama, let alone 2000 points, can he score more than 1500 points in his rookie season? If you count 82 games, then you have to average 18.3 points per game!