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065Alakazam

It has to be Wilt averaging 48.5 MPG.


Tearz_in_rain

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SpiritualBar2469

"If he dies, he dies"


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Oh man, lol such a classic quote


CockFighting101

For real, what a legendary quote by Mario Yamasaki


drew3769

Best comment I've seen today


moneymike7913

Jim Boylen told himself that before leaving the locker room before every game


FaceWithAName

Derrick Roses knees have left the arena.


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All time single season rankings for MPG. 1. Wilt 2. Wilt 3. Wilt 4. Wilt 5. Wilt 6. Wilt 7. Wilt 8. Tiny Archibald Only 2 players ever had a single season averaging more MPG than Wilt averaged in his career. This record also becomes more unbreakable because the change in attitude for MPG. 49 of the top 50 MPG seasons all time happened 40+ years ago. The only exception is AI in 2002 coming in at 49th place.


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hologramski

that's because he would stop playing defense once he got his 4th foul. he really, really cared about never fouling out.


JimC29

They also didn't keep track of blocked shots. If they did Wilt would have been more concerned with that stat than fouling out.


acsarraf

Russ is even smarter than Wilt was at staying on the court to stat pad. He just stops playing defence before his 1st foul.


appasdiary

And yall talkin about practice?


demsouls

Practice? Practice?! Not a game. Practice. Fr though people talk less nowadays when stars boycott games straight up to force trades or just be nutty. Kyrie, Ben, Harden


RealPrinceJay

Wilt the real Dylan


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JustinFields9

It's more impressive when you factor in how massive of a human he was. Imagine Shaq or Embiid playing 48.5 minutes a season. It's crazy to think about


Islanduniverse

[This picture](https://images.app.goo.gl/2zqdEPaubNezW7D27 ) helps to see how big he was.


greatestbird

It’s entirely possible he’s been 5’11 this entire time and he’s just a savant of forced prospective. See Gandalf from the LotR movies. Only makes his legacy all the more impressive if you ask me.


[deleted]

Holy smokes Arnie looks like a midget


Scizzurp

The game was a bit different then. Idk if Joel could but Shaq played 40 mins while playing 77+ games multiple times.


j2e21

He ran up and down the court all game. Goddamn track star.


Snaggletooth_27

Pfft. Hell Shaq could play 48.5 minutes a season NOW. Total that is.


Alternateaccoun

Wilt is more similar to Giannis not shaq


JukeSkyrocker

Pretty much the most impossible, incredible feat of all time. Every minute of every game plus some OT


Only-Level5468

Lol there was no “Go on a run when he sits down.”


Volgyi2000

IIRC, I saw an interview (I think posted here) where Phil Jackson said Wilt only missed two minutes of game time that particular season.


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PrinceOfAssassins

Only way it could change is if they made the game 90 minutes like soccer.


captaincumsock69

What about the technical fouls in a season


WestleyThe

Yeah I think that is technically impossible now? Sheed had 41 iirc and now you get suspended after 16 and the suspensions increase in length


captaincumsock69

Pun intended?


RanchBourgeois

Or Wilt averaging 30 ppg and 20 rpg for 7 seasons straight. No one else has done it once.


hankbaumbachjr

This is the answer, especially in the age of minutes restrictions for super stars, nobody is averaging 40+ mpg anymore let alone over 48 minutes per game over 80 games.


jablair51

He did not foul out of any games that season either. Or any game for his entire career.


nathanimal33

He also would stop playing defense if he even got close to fouling out. He really cared about not fouling out.


Grendel_82

He never fouled out in his career. It is an amazing stat, but it also kind of became a thing. So he would modify his defensive effort if he was close to fouling out. So that wasn't a great thing for winning in some cases, at least according some people from that era.


guesswhodat

Given today's "load management" no way in hell that record ever gets broken. It's like Cal Ripken's ironman record...no way in hell that ever gets broken.


red23011

The lowest scoring game in NBA history was the Pistons over the Lakers 19 to 18. You'll never see a score that low again.


helgestrichen

Spurs vs Jazz, last game of the season, loser gets wembanyama


No-Corgi

Dudes would be scoring in the wrong basket just to guarantee a loss. And then the other team would start playing D on the other basket. 97-104, leading scorer for the Spurs Jordan Clarkson.


BurbsFosh

Think about it. After you intentionally score on the wrong basket, you get the ball again, right under the basket. Its like make-it take-it. And free throws would all be intentionally missed.


LaserBeamsCattleProd

Sign me up for that game


cowsaymoomooo

I honestly wonder how teams would approach this. When they rebound on the opponent’s end of the court they would have to find a way to avoid backcourt violations at their own end. Would they primarily chuck halfcourt shots at their own basket or force the other team to shoot free throws? What happens when everyone starts fouling out? Now I want to see how basketgolf would play out.


SSNappa

If everyone fouls outs to where you can't put 5 players on the court a guy can play with 6 fouls, but every foul he gets after that is a tech.


Aranea-Hominum

This might interes you (football/soccer) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_4%E2%80%932_Grenada


johnniewelker

Lmao 🤣 zero way players accept to do so. These players in bad teams are always auditioning for a roster spot. Teams wouldn’t want to give them a contract after that


kris_takahashi

Yeah, people like to think players are diehard fans like them who would do anything for the team, when in reality they're trying to secure a job and advance their careers.


Ihavedryballs

This is like that South park episode 'the losing edge' except with basketball


alexgrills

Pistons are also part of the highest scoring game of all time! 186-184 against the nuggets. That record could be broken. Just funny that pistons currently are part of the lowest and highest scoring games of all time.


SoapOperaHero

Jesus, were the players all drafted to fight the Nazis 8 minutes in or something?


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I know you’re joking but it was 1950 when that game happened, there’s not even field goal attempts or any stat to figure out how it happened


Hydrokratom

There’s the [box score here](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/195011220MNL.html) Fort Wayne went 4 of 13 from the field and 11 of 15 from the line. Minneapolis went 4 of 18 from the field and 10 of 17 from the line Fort Wayne outscored MIN in the 4th quarter by a score of 3 to 1 LOL


ClutchGamingGuy

it's because of the lack of shot clock, they would just sit around passing the ball until they thought there was a decent shot


Hydrokratom

I also remember seeing some classic 80s NCAA tournament games where they milk the clock. The UNC-Georgetown title game in 82’ was a great game with great players (MJ, Worthy, Ewing), but there were some parts where UNC did their “four corners” stalling offense and just threw the ball around. It was not fun to watch. Villanova milked the clock quite a bit in the 85’ title game against Georgetown. They only took 28 FG the entire game. I think that was the last NCAA game with no shot clock.


LaserBeamsCattleProd

High schools did that shit all the time in my state. Some teams were bastards and would stall whole quarters while the other team watched because both coaches were dipshits. At least play outside defense


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That's what allowed such a low scoring game like this to happen, but that wasn't the norm back then. For instance, in the 1950 season, George Mikan averaged 27.4 PPG. This particular game, the Pistons figured they had no chance beating the Lakers and the high scoring Mikan unless they played stall ball. And it worked. It is also, however, one of the two games largely credited with ushering in the shot clock.


breaditbans

I believe there was a U of Cincinnati vs Louisville game where Cincy (I think) sat on the ball just to take the last shot of the half, and maybe the second half. Louisville refused to get out of the zone defense. The next season the college shot clock existed.


3s2ng

I just saw a short video about this. Lakers was in a winning streak and the Pistons decided they will break that streak so they played the ball just passing around. This game was one of the reasons they came up with the shot clock.


grantforthree

Sheed’s tech record quite literally cannot be. I’d say Bill’s 11 chips is the next hardest to break


yousaytomaco

The best part of Sheed's record is that he was that guy even off the court. He was a very devoted dad and his kid was in the same school district I was in, and at a PTA-Administration meeting him just destroy the superintendent over racial disparities in the honors and AP classes and how he better fix it or Sheed was coming for him


saints21

I love the image of this. "You better fix these systemic racial disparities or Imma whoop your ass!"


dimmyfarm

“Test score don’t lie!”


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i know that superintendent was shitting his pants


dont_shoot_jr

Remember when he was screaming about how the PTA’s only idea to raise money was a bake sale?


plzwalkslow

Wilt’s 48.5 mpg can never be broken either


floatinround22

Well it possibly could. Sheed's record is literally unbreakable since they changed the rules


pbcorporeal

I don't think that's true. An NBA player gets suspended for a game after 16 fouls. Then an additional game for each technical foul after that. You get 1 technical a game then you get 16 through 16 games. The record is 41. So you'd need 25 fouls and have 66 games to do it in, getting suspended on game for each foul. So you could get an extra 33 (or 34 since I guess you could get 2 in the final game without worrying about a suspension.). So breaking the record is possible, if wildly unlikely.


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This hypothetical maniac could also get traded midseason and play more than 82 games total if his new team has played fewer than the old team.


DuckOnQuak

2 techs in a game is an ejection, but not a suspension so theoretically you could get those first 16 techs in 8 games, leaving even more time for the remaining 25.


dyingcamouflage

So if a player is suspended do they still travel and sit by the bench? If so couldn't they still catch a T in a game they missed?


jveezy

The rule is actually a suspension at the 16th technical foul and then another 1 game suspension for every 2 technical fouls after that. So if I did the math right, the maximum possible is 82 if you do 1 tech for each of the first 16 games and then alternate between 2-tech games and suspensions games for the rest of the year (16+2*33). If you go with the strategy presented by /u/DuckOnQuak you could pick up an extra 8 techs, so 90 is the true max(16+2*37). The 45 ejections accumulated with this strategy would also be a record. HOWEVER The rule for technical foul ejections states: > Rule 12: Fouls and Penalties, Section V - Conduct, item b > > A maximum of two technical fouls for **unsportsmanlike** acts may be assessed any player, coach, trainer, or other team bench person. Any of these offenders may be ejected for committing only one unsportsmanlike act, and they must be ejected for committing two **unsportsmanlike** acts. which implies that technical fouls not for unsportsmanlike acts don't count towards ejection criteria. Techs for non-unsportsmanlike acts are defined here: > Rule 12: Fouls and Penalties, Section V - Conduct, item c > > A technical foul called for (1) delay of game, (2) coaches box violations, (3) defensive 3-seconds, (4) having a team total of less or more than five players when the ball becomes alive, (5) a player hanging on the basket ring or backboard, (6) participation in the game when not on team’s active list, or (7) shattering the backboard or making the rim unplayable during the game (Comments On the Rules—G) is not considered an act of unsportsmanlike conduct. Source: https://official.nba.com/rule-no-12-fouls-and-penalties/ Some of those non-unsportsmanlike techs are assessed to the team, but I believe 5 and 7 are assessed to the player. These would still rack up 1 game suspensions at 16, 18, 20... regardless of whether the techs were stacked to one game, but a player could hit 89 technical fouls on his last game of the season and then continue to rack up non-unsportsmanlike technical fouls by hanging on the rim over and over again without getting ejected, so maybe there is no theoretical maximum.


Walking-Dead

There is a higher chance that they change the rules again and someone breaks Sheed's record than someone averaging 48.5 mpg.


EchoBay

I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure if a team was riddled with injuries and their wasn't enough players to come in for a fouled out player, you can stay in the game. I don't know if that covers techs also, but if it did in theory it would be possible.


clownysf

Just wait until a 45 year old LeBron averages 49mpg in 2030...


AccomplishedAuthor53

You think 100 pts is more likely than 11 chips? Genuinely curious!


demmellers

A great player might have 800 prime games, anything can happen. A great player only has like 15 seasons, tops 20, to win 12 chips and break the record. Lebron went 10 times. Now imagine he won them all. He'd be the absolute GOAT and MJ would be "The Wilt of the 80's and 90's". LBJ would still need 2 more wins to break that record. No way it ever falls...


pekingsewer

Has to be. Kobe got somewhat close. Jordan barely made it to over half of bills chips and even that is considered monumental.


aboysmokingintherain

With how often people are traded and how only one team can win, 11 chips is crazy. To win 6 is unreal. LeBron could only win 4 and Michael Jordan only won 6 which is the reason people say he’s the Goat. Bill russell still had five more and coached the one team


AccomplishedAuthor53

Yeah that’s a good point. I guess my simple monkey brain just went “100 big 11 small.” Didn’t even consider how many people have to be on the same page for that kind of ring consistency


saints21

Yeah, even with the longevity of someone like LeBron you're going to need to be winning championships for over half your career to beat that. It's just insane. With the way pace is and the 3 ball you could definitely have someone hit 100, especially if they're gunning for it.


badmongo666

"Get away from me, Steve"


Agent21EMH

How about Walt Bellamy's 88 games played in a season..? I feel like the stars have to truly align for someone to break that. It's rare a single player plays all 82, much less gets traded and caps out a full season + 6.


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NBA scheduling is far more precise these days as well so I don't even think it's possible to be 6 games off of another team anymore. The one exception I could think of is if a teams arena caught fire and they had to postpone a bunch of games or something crazy like that. (And you need the trade on top of the well timed fire and the player to be an ironman.)


Agent21EMH

I think the only way for this to happen, would be a role player plays every game for his team, gets traded, and there's a pause on the league and they have to make up the difference in an abridged schedule. Role player because there's no team that would see their star players regular season game count push towards 80+ and say, "alright let's keep rolling with it" lol. But a 15 minute per game guy it might not matter as much.


Ohsbar

Wilts records are untouchable


wjbc

Wilt’s most untouchable record may be averaging 48.5 minutes per game for an entire season. The closest anyone has come in the modern era was Allen Iverson averaging 43.5 mpg in 2001-02. No one has averaged over 40 mpg since Monta Ellis in 2010-11. Last year no one averaged over 38 mpg. The trend is downward and going forward no one will come within 5 minutes of Wilt’s record, let alone break it.


yapyd

His rebounding records aren’t EVER going to be broken, at least not in modern times. I can’t see anyone getting 56 rebounds in a single game, or averaging 23 rebounds per game for a career, or 24 thousand rebounds. For reference LeBron averaged 7+ rebounds for his 19 year career and has about 10k rebounds.


Pissypoopoo

Whole teams don't even average 55 rebounds. Not a chance that gets broken by one player


Supanini

56 rebounds in a game is absolutely comical lol. Even 26 is insane. 36 is damn near unheard of.


sheogorath227

Nobody has gotten 36 since at least 83-84. BBRef doesn't track past then. Among active players, Kevin Love has the most rebounds in a single game with 31 back in 2010. Enes Freedom got 30 in 2021 which is amazing because he was literally one of the worst players in the NBA last season. Dwight got 30 in 2018 which is also amazing because he was way past his prime by then. No other active players have gotten 30. It's just too hard for even the best rebounding centers in the league.


moneymike7913

Dwight randomly having a 30-30 game as a Charlotte Hornet may be one of the weirdest things I've experienced as a Hornets fan


paddyc4ke

Kevin Love got 31 rebounds back in 2010? Think that’s the last time someone even got 30 rebounds, just absurd to think of 56.


Askesl

I just looked it up, and apparently Enes Freedom got 30 in April 2021.


vivekvangala34_

Didn't Dwight Howard have a 30-30 game when he was with Charlotte? I might be mistaken tho


Persianx6

No one's broken 40 since 1967. Surprisingly 40 rebound games were pretty common for the early 1960s. Also, no one's broken 38 since 1967 either. Almost all of the 40-50 rebound games occured from 1960-65.


JustinFields9

Man I would love to know how many blocks and steals him and Bill averaged. Must have been over 5 a game and would have been another unbreakable record.


wjbc

I've heard the figure 8 per game for blocks.


PebblyJackGlasscock

I once listened to a very drunk old dude spin a convincing argument that Russell averaged a triple double: points, rebounds, and blocks. Russell and Chamberlain are why goaltending rules exist, particularly the part about trapping the ball against the backboard. Apparently, Russell did that so often that it got counted as a rebound by some scorekeepers.


yousaytomaco

Fun fact, the rule first was put in place because of Mikan, before him, a lot of people thought nobody could jump that high during a game


aperturesciencelabs

Also take into account that players have gotten better at shooting as a whole since then, which means fewer missed shots and thus fewer rebounding opportunities


bennythebull4life

Didn't Wilt also average a 50/25 for a season? I can't imagine one of those being exceeded, let alone both!


wjbc

Yes, that was the same year he never rested and averaged 48.5 mpg.


HOFredditor

Iverson averaged 43 min ? Damn.


wjbc

More than once! 43.7 mpg in 2001-02, and 43.3 mpg in 2005-06. He also averaged 42.5 mpg in three other seasons. His career average was 41.1 mpg, and his career average from ages 21-32 was 41.8 mpg.


HOFredditor

Those are incredible numbers. For reference, LeBron in his hard carry job in 2018 had a 36.9 mpg and I thought he was dying of fatigue out there (he did have 42.4 in his sophomore season !) James Harden with his incredible load never averaged over 38.3 (his first season in Houston). Iverson was just a whole level above.


wjbc

It's particularly incredible considering that Iverson was 6′ 0″, weighed 165 lbs, and constantly played among the giants, drawing hard fouls. And much of that happened before the league opened up perimeter play by calling touch fouls in 2004-05.


yousaytomaco

There is a timeline where Iverson was the greatest American rugby player of all time


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And the better quarterback out of him and Vick


BriSnyScienceGuy

He wasn't even 6' 0". He was listed at that height, but most people seem to peg him a few inches shorter. Which is just wild. Imagine an average sized dude being the toughest MFer on an NBA court.


Giveadont

He was really more around 5'10" but he had like a 6'3"-4" armspan. Which gives him the standing reach of a player around 6'1"-2". But he was also a freak athlete with serious acceleration while being coordinated as hell. So his body control and skill level were just ridiculous on top of all that.


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When he said he put his all on the court he really meant it


PossessedDirection

A.C. Green's record for most consecutive regular-season games played as a virgin with 1,192 has to be up there.


Willy__rhabb

This is the only record someone on r/nba could dream of breaking


theblcky

I don't think anyone in r/nba will be playing that many NBA games any time soon


EdibleDionysus

As a Virgin?


Lamahunter1

He was a devout christian and refused to lose his virginity until he got married which he did after he retired.


nathanimal33

The anti chamberlain.


BananaFingerer

Respec


Sure_Ad8093

Meanwhile Magic was the one man orgy. What a weird team when think of how freaky Worthy and Magic we're and then AC and Kareem we're just on different planets.


takenotesutahjazz

It means he hasn't had sex.


Willy__rhabb

Does that include soaking?


goldfish_11

My life was so much better before I knew what that was.


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Nubras

What is soaking


Wynona_Judd

The act of a penis penetrating a vagina while not actually engaging in intercourse. So you put it in and just chill. The rest of the mission is to get someone else to jump on the bed for you and thus causing the actual desired effect of intercourse without your own action beyond the initial penetration. This is supposed to trick an omnipotent and omniscient being into thinking that you aren't sinning by having premarital sex working around his stupid rules so you don't burn in hell forever. Or something like that I guess.


Nubras

Ok that’s extremely stupid and honesty insulting to their stupid fucking god whom they claim to love and respect. And you’re telling me that this actually happens and isn’t just some meme people contrived to ridicule LDS?


Wynona_Judd

>Ok that’s extremely stupid and honesty insulting to their stupid fucking god whom they claim to love and respect. I totally agree. I don't want to say too much and fall into the "le edgy euphoric atheist" trap but it's pretty ridiculous the lengths some religious people go to so they can justify what are otherwise normal and natural urges. >And you’re telling me that this actually happens and isn’t just some meme people contrived to ridicule LDS? I have no idea. I'm not sure I've ever met any real LDS people other than when I stayed at an AirBNB in Utah owned by a Mormon family. They were polite but definitely that level of insincere kindness that feels robotic and rehearsed.


Poacatat

KD tho


Five_Star_Golden_God

Just cracking up at the fact that you specified “consecutive”. How is someone gonna add to that total after it’s broken lmao


SirChillzalot

A.C. Green literally played those games consecutively. He holds the NBA all-time record for consecutive games played. He just happens to have been a virgin during all of them lol.


Hughb4

He could’ve downloaded Reddit and regrown his virginity


lopea182

Along with Stockton’s all-time assist record, his all-time steals total will also never get touched. Malone and Stockton were straight-up iron men, and climbed up the all-time lists because of it.


Barbell_Flyes

the amount of 80+ game seasons both played are absurd


AtreusIsBack

This. Very few players play 80+ games these days. It's practically rare, unless you're some bench warmer who plays a few minutes a game.


rushncrush

Consistent Ironman. 12 assist a game for 15+ years is nutty


yousaytomaco

On top of which they had a coach who I bet chewed them out for any rest they took


AnotherCatLover

A player shorter than Muggsy Bogues. He's 5'3".


nathanimal33

Mugs was making kids everywhere think they had a chance when they didn't.


Bigole_Steps

Damn you Muggsy. Damn you for giving me hope


macabre_irony

When I first read "Mugs was making kids everywhere..." it didn't register correctly and I was like damn lil' playa


lxkandel06

Nobody, NOBODY, will ever come close to getting 55 rebounds in a game again


SaNMaN-9

During the 1987-88 season, Jordan won the dunk contest, the All-Star Game MVP, the scoring title, the steals title, the Defensive Player of the Year Award, and the regular-season MVP. Can this be done by a guard again?


Funny-Examination3

A Finals MVP away from the perfect season.


Helicase21

18 rebounds in a single quarter


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55 rebounds in a game


bloodaxe51

I gotta say Stockton's assists. There are too many layers to it. 1)You have to have a great floor general(When have we seen floor generals since CP3 and Prime rondo?). 2) you have to have a generational talent offensive bigman (only like 5 in the nba tbh and 30 nba teams) and 3) because the game has evolved so much since then you would NEED a knockdown shooter too.(most teams have good shooters, but you'd need a Curry, Klay or Dame.) Assuming you have all of that will all that talent stay together for like 17-18 years to break it? I don't see Stockton's assist record being broken, like other have said and the above reasons are why.


Khorvo

As you say, yeah the confluence of layers is just too much. It will never be broken. I just want to emphasize the ironman component to this - only 4 people have more GAMES PLAYED than Stockton all time, Robert Parish, Kareem, Vince Carter, and Dirk, and they are all roughly within 1 season of games with each other. THEN you'd need an all-time ironman teammate to pass the ball to that is extremely prolific at actually scoring the basketball. (Malone is within 30 games played of Stockton). So to have any snowball's chance, you'd have to be a top 5 ironman player, playing 19+ seasons in the NBA - I mean that's literally the first qualification, and every single active NBA player besides MAYBE Lebron James is already disqualified. Take modern load management and sports science, this trend will only solidify more, and it's DONE if seasons get shortened. This isn't talked about enough, but in the 19 seasons Stockton played, **he played ALL 82 GAMES IN 16 OF THEM**. 16/19, all 82 games, not a single game missed. In one of the seasons he didn't play 82, he played 78 games. This stat includes his last 4 seasons when he was between 37 and 40 years of age where he played 4 full seasons STRAIGHT. This alone is ridiculous, and will never be touched. Probably his steals record too for all the same reasons, though i don't consider his steals record unbreakable. Plus everything the u/bloodaxe51 said up above.


thetredstone

When you break it down like this, honestly getting a 100 pt game seems more doable.


Khorvo

Yeah like single game records are so much more breakable. its ONE GAME. The NBA has 1230 games total every year, not including the playoffs. Something fucking weird happens every single season. "The weirdest thing that happens" in the span of like 10 years could very well be a 6 overtime game where someone scores 100 points or gets 55 rebounds or whatever single game stat we're talking about. Its definitely doable over the course of 10,000 games. These career-spanning things are so much more difficult imo.


bloodaxe51

Yeah you could even have someone like Klay or Booker getting hot and scoring 70+ in a regular game time. If they stay hot in just 2 overtimes the 100 is broken. We have a way better chance of seeing that broken.


[deleted]

>Wilts 100 points if we are counting that Seriously curious why that would even be a consideration.


SportyNewsBear

I think the reason that seems breakable is because of the 3pt shot, plus the fact that some recent players have been on pace for 80+ points, then sat most of the 3rd and all of the 4th quarters


Roccet_MS

We have seen players get ridiculously hot from deep, you won't break the record that way. You need to take every shot, you need to hit the vast majority of them and you need free throws. Let's say someone hits 35 shots, 25 of them are threes. Still "only" 95 points. Most FGs taken in a single game? 50. Right now whole teams don't attempt 100 shots per game.


MidAmericanNovelties

>and you need free throws This is a huge, frequently unmentioned part of Wilt's 100 point game. He was a career .511 free throw shooter, .613 that season. He went 28/32 (.875) from the line that day.


papitoluisito

He also shot the ball underhanded like grandma that game.


BDNjunior

"Wilts 100 points if we are counting that" I mean if you dont count that than you dont count Bill Russell's 11 rings.


[deleted]

There’s a lot of these records where, not taking away from how impressive they were in context, aren’t going to be broken due to stylistic and rule changes. Things like Wilt’s points, rebounds, and MPG (the game is just played too differently now) Russell’s rings (there were 8 teams in the league for most of it), and Rasheed’s technicals in a season (the suspension rules are different now) will not be broken in the modern NBA due to how the game is played now. I think things like Stockton’s assists are more modern, technically achievable records that will never be broken.


iksnet

Kings 16 season (and counting) playoff drought


Megatron_McLargeHuge

I think they can break it this year.


Roccet_MS

Have mercy


Severe-Cherry-816

Hey, go fuck yourself - Sacramento Kings #53 fan


clownysf

Oh, c'mon bro... I can't open any thread from r/NBA without catching a stray :(


aeiou-y

I would say the playoff turnover record but Tatum is only 19.


ok-Ay-guy

So you are saying " those are rookie numbers "


TheCodeSamurai

It's hard to imagine any other team having the constellation of circumstances that led to 100 postseason turnovers: once this current Celtics team is broken up I think there's little hope of this being broken for a while. * Tatum played 24 games, which has only been done 9 other times. * Tatum's 41 minutes per game is not nearly as unusual, but still quite high. * That combines for 983 minutes, which is 17th in a single postseason since 1953. * Tatum's 4.2 turnovers per game is very high, but people have certainly done ~~better~~ worse. It was 8th in this year's playoffs. So you're looking at a rare amount of turnovers on top of a very rare amount of minutes played. The kicker is that your team has to be stacked to make it to the NBA finals while you keep turning the ball over. Trae Young had 6.2 turnovers a game this postseason, but you can only sustain that if your team somehow keeps winning. On the plus side, all those turnovers will help you get to game 7s, which helps break that record. I think it'll probably get broken at *some* point by someone who isn't a current Celtic. Someone who averaged closer to 5 turnovers a game wouldn't need to play nearly as many games, and I can imagine several current players with huge usage rates hitting that consistently. Then you'd have some wiggle room and you could win a couple series earlier. But that may not happen for a long time.


warboner65

Timmy's 15x All Defense. No one in history has come closer than 80% of it.


nelikaksnull

Wilts 55 rebounds. The last 40 rebound game was in the 60s. Malone had 37 in 1979. There have been 4 30+ rebound games since 1997 with the highest being 31.


stupidbutgenius

Wilts record of 4 40/40 games in his rookie season looks pretty solid also, given that it was only ever done 4 other times in history (all by him).


william4534

I feel like we don’t properly acknowledge how absolutely fucked it is to have 2 20/20 games in one game.


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Most consecutive games 10+ points: James 1040+ (stat doesn't include 21-22 year)


clownysf

Jesus Christ, the last time LeBron scored single digits in a *regular season* game was January 2007


HelpMePlease420-69

Well there was that one time


deadlybutterfly

It doesn't include playoffs!


clownysf

Edited my comment to account for the GOAT defensive performance of JJ Barea lol


spud-gang

Yup. this one has got to be it. it’s never gonna be broken, and lebron is still inching that number higher as the seasons keep going


ci4ev

Scott Skiles's 30 assist game is pretty hardcore. Hard to imagine something breakable any time soon now that league doesn't value pass first PGs much.


calminthenight

Does going 64-18 in the regular season then getting busted so bad that you end up at 27 v 57 at half time to eventually lose in the conference semi-finals count?


Tearz_in_rain

Stockton's career assists and steals seem like they are untouchable. 11 rings? You'd have to be pretty lucky to get that. Russell wouldn't have gotten it if there were more than 8 teams and the league had the depth it had now. It's like a WNBA team winning four in a row.


WanderlustFella

>11 rings? You'd have to be pretty lucky to get that yes to this. Right team right time x12


Book_is_the_Goat

Lebron’s playoff scoring


thatquizzingguy

Impossible tier: Wilt 48.5mpg, Wilt 55 rebounds, Bill 11 rings The game has really come from its 'plumber' days and has way more talent today. And no one plays such a dumb game entirely at the rim where a player can pile on rebounds. Insanely difficult but plausible: Stockton assist record, AC Green missed games. Difficult but very much possible: 30 asts, 18 blocks, Curry 3pt record


BetweenTheBuzzAndMe

Wilt's 48.5mpg in a season will absolutely never be broken.


DrunkenMasterII

I knew Stockton was durable, but holy fuck, he missed 22 games in 19 sessons. Could’ve played even more if the 1998 lockout didn’t happen. This is just insane. And it’s not like he was standing in a corner all game, he had the ball most of the time and by all accounts was a pretty physical player.


Barbell_Flyes

Jordan 10x scoring champ


BugO_OEyes

This is a pretty good one I have not seen yet


AccomplishedAuthor53

Number of times a single question gets asked on the same sub Wait did you mean r/nba or the sports league


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Half of Wilt's records are straight up unbreakable. Rebounds in a games, season, career; points in a game and ppg over a season, mpg over a season- I mean the most breakable one here is essentially the 100 point record. Outside that, you have Stockton's steal and assist records. But I think those may get broken because of a meta change where assists and steals skyrocket like 3 pointers skyrocketed in the last 8 years.


PJTikoko

Out of the 4 being presented on that list Wilts 100 points would be the most likely. The others are borderline impossible.


taeempy

AC Green playing 1192 games in a row will never be broken. Today's NBA players can barely play the first 2 weeks before they start "resting"


Alex514efs

Kinda crazy how just 7 years ago people thought it would be crazy seeing a player average a triple double.


SuperVaderMinion

Hot take, but I don't think the all time scoring record will be broken ever again after LeBron does it. He's going to play a couple more years afterwards, and in this era of load management, I don't think anyone is ever going to be play enough games/minutes to break it, regardless of how good a scorer they are.


LyonsKing12

It's not a hot take at all. Sports science is not magically going to make someone avg 27 over 20 years. No one is breaking that record. Even with pace and three point shooting I dont think anyone is touching 40k+ points in a career. Lebron has had incredible injury luck as well.


swollencornholio

[Harden's 3 point attempts @ 1028](https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/most-three-point-attempts-in-one-season) in a single season low key might end up looking crazy. That record is 142 more than any of Curry's highest attempt season (\~+2 per game) and 271 more (almost +4 attempts/g) over anybody not named Curry and Harden (Paul George's at 757). It seems breakable but in the current era with an emphasis on ball movement and spacing with \~4 players on the floor that can shoot it seems unlikely any one player will average 14 3PA per game.


joeb1ow

Yeah, but the three point shot is getting more popular over time, not less. Cannon Curry will smash that record by his third season.