How difficult is it to score 30,000 points in the NBA? With only 8 people in history, Harden is expected to be the next one

Among the active NBA players, if you want to talk about the star with the strongest scoring ability, many fans will say that he is Harden at his peak. After all, he is the only player who can win the regular season scoring champion with averaging 30+ per game for three consecutive years, and in the craziest season, he averaged 36.1 points per game. At present, Harden's total regular season score has reached 27,687 points. Judging from his current state and age, as long as he is not injured in the future, it is basically a foregone conclusion that he will enter the 30,000-point club before retirement. Then we will take stock of the 8 players in NBA history who have achieved this feat, of which 2 of them are on the list!

8. Durant (30571 points)

Durant has been regarded as having the potential to become a top scorer since his debut. He did not disappoint. He averaged 20+ games in a rookie season, and his output and efficiency have been greatly improved since the second year. Later, Durant became one of the best scorers in the league. He also won four scoring champions in the Thunder in those years, and the reason why he did not win this award after that was more because he could still win the regular season without having to play like that.

Durant missed a large number of games due to a ruptured Achilles tendon in 2019, but his condition proved that it was worth resting for such a long time. By the age of 36 last season, he averaged 26.6 points, 6 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game, and he also successfully broke through the 30,000-point mark. Judging from Durant's current performance, it seems that it is not a problem for him to surpass Jordan and Kobe before retirement.

7. Chamberlain (31419 points)

As the first player in NBA history to score 30,000 points, Chamberlain has won the regular season scoring champion for seven consecutive years. In his peak season, he has performed at an average of 50+ and 40+ per game. It was also at that time that he also set a god-level performance of 100 points in a single game. With his performance at his peak, even though Chamberlain only played 14 seasons in the NBA in the end, his total score still exceeded 30,000 points. In addition, he was still the leader in historical rebounds when he retired, and this record has not been broken yet.

6. Nowitzki (31560 points)

Unlike Chamberlain, Nowitzki, who debuted at the peak, he averaged only 8.2 points per game in his rookie season, but the Mavericks still firmly believe that he can become the best player in the league, so the team gave him more ball rights and higher tactical status. Under the absolute trust of the Mavericks, Nowitzki still made a name for himself. With his unique style of play, he once became the best power forward with the league's offensive ability at that time.

At the peak of Nowitzki, he was selected for the Best Team many times, and also won the MVP in 2007, and later in 2011 he even won the FMVP. In the end, Nowitzki played in the NBA for 21 seasons before retiring, and his total score had already exceeded 30,000 points.

5.Jordan (32292 points)

Jordan's performance after entering the league was amazing. He averaged 28.2 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 2.4 steals per game in the rookie season. He completely surpassed the No. 1 pick and the No. 1 pick and the No. 2 pick. Later, Jordan became the strongest star in the league, and he has won the regular season scoring champion for seven consecutive years, and in one of his games averaged 37.1 points per game.

After Jordan retired in 1993, he made a comeback in the 1994-1995 season, and then he won three scoring titles, thus becoming the only player in history to have scored ten scoring titles. However, since Jordan retired twice in the middle and finally played in the NBA for only 15 seasons, his total regular season score was "just" 32,292 points.

4. Kobe (33643 points)

As the only player among these 8 players who could only play as a substitute in the NBA at the beginning, Kobe averaged only 7.6 points per game in the rookie season, but considering that he was only 18 years old at the time and had never played in the college league, his performance is understandable. Later, after gradually adapting to the NBA, Kobe's performance made rapid progress, so he took the lead step by step and became the core of the Lakers' outside line.

Since the 1999-2000 season, Kobe's average score per game has been stable at more than 20 points, and it was easy for him to average 25+ at his peak. In those years when he led the team with a single core, Kobe also averaged 35.4 points per game, and also scored 81 points in a single game. But unfortunately, Kobe's condition was later ruined by injuries. After the 34-year-old Achilles tendon injury, he never returned to his peak. Otherwise, he would have been considered one of the most promising players to break Jabbar's record at the time.

3. Malone (36928 points)

Like Kobe, Malone is the No. 13 pick in the first round. He was 22 years old when he entered the league, so he started firmly in his rookie season and he has been able to score 20+ stably since the second year. Malone, who has always performed very stably since then, has averaged more than 25 points per game for 11 consecutive years, of which 31 points per game in the 1989-1990 season also set the highest record in his career..

In the end, Malone played in the NBA for 19 seasons. In addition to his rookie season, he averaged less than 20+ in his retirement season. That year, his total score was ranked second in history. If he worked hard, he would not have no chance to surpass Jabbar. However, in order to compete for the championship, Malone joined the Lakers, which means that his data will definitely shrink. In fact, it is indeed the case. Unfortunately, even so, he failed to get what he wanted. In the 2004 Finals, the Lakers lost to the Pistons in a sudden defeat in the situation favored by the outside world.

2.Jabbar (38387 points)

Before 2023,Jabbar had been the historical scoring leader for almost 40 years, so he is also the player who has stayed in this position for the longest time in NBA history. The reason why Jabbar achieved this feat was his dominance at his peak and his career durability were both indispensable. Jabbar once had multiple seasons averaging 30+ games, and he also had the stability of averaging 20+ games for 17 consecutive seasons. Finally, in the retirement season, the 41-year-old Jabbar averaged 10.1 points per game, so he was regarded as an "evergreen" in NBA history.

1. James (42184 points)

And the player who surpassed Jaycee in 2023 is nothing else, he is the James who is more lasting than Jaycee. James, who entered the league in 2003, has played in the NBA for 22 seasons, but his average score has never been lower than 20+, and he has averaged 25+ games in the season. Therefore, even though he has only won the regular season scoring champion once in his career, his total scores are still easily surpassing the historical super giants.

Last season, 40-year-old James averaged 24.4 points, 7.8 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 1 steal per game, and he was selected for the All-A-Second Team. This makes people wonder if he will see the decline of other stars at the end of his career. Now, as long as James is willing, he will have hope for his second son to enter the NBA for another 2-3 seasons. By then, his total score is likely to exceed 45,000 points.