Preface
With the transformation of the league's overall style of play now, it is now less and less difficult for players to score on the court, because of the accelerated pace of the game and the decline of defensive confrontation, players have a lot more opportunities to score easily, so many stars have played a season of 2000+ points.
However, many people are basically "short-lived", and then either because of attendance or because of the decline in form. Stars like Beal, George, Rose and other stars, they all had a single-season score of 2000+ in their peak, but since then they have never been able to reproduce it, as strong as Wei Shao and Curry, they have only 2 seasons with more than 2000+ points for various reasons, and it can be seen how difficult it is to score more than 2000 points in 3 seasons.
There are so many big and small stars in the current service, only the following 4 people meet the requirements, and the top of the list is not considered a pure scorer by the outside world.
4. Brother Alphabet (3 times)
As an active top-five superstar, Brother Alphabet's career is a late bloomer, and in the first three seasons of his career, there is no indication that he has the potential to become a top-20 all-time player. In the 2017-2018 season, he averaged 26.9 points, 10 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.4 blocks per game, and he also scored 2000+ points in a single season for the first time this year.
However, then Brother Alphabet began to learn to "paddle" in the regular season, although looking at the average data per game, he has always played well, but in fact, he has not used his best in the regular season almost every year, which is also related to the use of him by the coaching staff. In the 2021-2022 season, Brother Alphabet finally scored 2000+ points in a single season again, and this year he scored 2202 points in only 67 games, because he scored a career-high 29.9 points.
As the team struggled in the regular season this season, he was forced to play more games, and so far he has played 73 games, averaging 35.2 minutes per game, which is also his highest appearance in the past five years. Therefore, Brother Alphabet, who averaged 30.4 points per game, also played the highest single-season performance of his career, and his total score has reached 2222 points so far, and the Bucks have one game behind him.
3. Durant (7 times)
As one of the most scoring stars in the current team, many people compare Durant's scoring with Jordan and Kobe Bryant's top stars, but it is true that Durant is very strong in scoring, and he still averages 27.3 points per game after 17 seasons in the league. In Durant's career, he has won a total of four single-season scoring titles, which is also the highest record among active players.
Durant was just 21 years old when he first scored more than 2,000 points in a single season, and he averaged 30.1 points per game that season and played in 82 games in the regular season, finishing with a total of 2,472 points, which is also the second-most points of his career so far. In the 2013-2014 season, Durant won the fourth scoring title with an average of 32 points per game, and his single-season scoring also set a career-high 2,593 points.
Durant's scoring performance has fluctuated due to injury, but he still has three seasons where he has scored more than 2,000 points, including this season. As the core of the Suns' team, the 36-year-old Durant averaged 27.3 points per game, and played in 74 games, his average of 37.2 minutes per game is also the fifth highest in the league, although the Suns' season is not over, his total points have come to 2017.
2. Harden (7 times)
Although Harden is now declining very seriously, and his average points per game this season have dropped to 16.6 points, please don't forget that once upon a time he was also the league's No. 1 quarterback, and he averaged more than 30 points per game for three consecutive seasons at his peak, and at that time, 30+ and 40+ were as simple as "eating and drinking" for him.
I think Harden's rise was because the Thunder traded him to the Rockets, and in his first season with his new club, Harden's total points broke his career-high 2023 points at that time. Since the 2014-2015 season, he has basically been able to score more than 2,200 points every year, except for the 2017-2018 season, because he only played 72 games that year, but he also won the MVP that season.
In addition to his excellent scoring ability, Harden in his prime was also one of the best in the league in attendance, and when the team relied on him so much, he rarely had a rotation or back-to-back deliberately not playing. Among them, Harden's performance in the 2018-2019 season is even more inexplicable, he averaged 36.1 points, 6.6 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, and only missed 4 games in the regular season, and finally his statistics that year were 2815 points, 518 rebounds and 586 assists.
However, since then, Harden has slowly declined, and his last season with the Rockets is also his last peak, with the Nets and the 76ers he transformed into a point guard, and then the impact of injuries has also plagued him, his highest total points in the past three seasons is 1216 points, and with his current performance and the Clippers' record, his total points this season are estimated to be difficult to exceed 1216.
1. James (10 times)
At the top of the list is the familiar "everywhere there is him" James, because we can see his name on various records, although he is not considered by many to be one of the best scorers in history, but the data does not lie, as the double scoring champion of the regular season + playoffs in history, James has almost scored 50,000 points in his career, if he is not a top scorer, then there are not many people in history.
Many people will say that James is "boiling up his working years", then this record fully shows whether James is "mixed" in the league, compared to Harden, Durant and other scorers, his career has 10 seasons of total points of more than 2000 points, which fully shows the durability of his peak.
In fact, James scored 2000+ points faster than Durant in his first single-season season, and he played this in the second season of his career, when he averaged 27.2 points per game and played in 80 games, and he ended up scoring a total of 2175 points that season. In the next 7 consecutive seasons, James' total score has not been lower than 2000+, if it is not for the 2011-2012 season is a shrinking season, James will have 10 consecutive seasons with a total score of more than 2000+.
In the 2017-2018 season, James led the team to the playoffs, and the 33-year-old played 82 games for the first time in his career, averaging 27.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 9.1 assists in 36.9 minutes per game, and the final total score was 2251 points. Later in the Lakers, James' scoring ability is still very good, and his average points per game in the 2021-2022 season even exceeded 30 points again after 14 years, but unfortunately his injuries have been too frequent in recent years, resulting in his highest total score of only 1794 points this season.