Who could average 50 pts/g (efficiently) if their team allowed and needed it?

[Living Being]

Who could do it, and how would they hold up over the course of the season?

[Electric Slide]

Lebron could, but he would have Kobe's efficiency which is just average.

[Levity]

due to the sole fact that you put "efficiently" in the title, i would have to say no one. If a team "needed" someone to score 50 pts a game, then that would mean its a team full of keith bogans and reggie evans type players. In other words, a team without any scoring output. So this 50 ppg player would get double and trippled team all game. Sure, theres a slim possibility they could reach the 50 ppg mark (highly doubt it) but it wouldnt be at an efficient rate.

[Beastmode88]

Westbrook probably could do it. He already takes like 20 shots per game. Why not take 40?

[Asukal]

No one today can average 50 a game, even prime Jordan wouldn't be able to without chucking like an idiot.

[keepinitreal]

Who could do it, and how would they hold up over the course of the season?

At 50 points/game you'll have to be chucking quite a bit. Nobody is going to do that and no teams need that. If you take into consideration the amount of energy it takes to score points and the drop-off in efficiency, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant are good candidates.

[macmac]

Lol efficiently or not, no one can do it, what kind of stupid shit is this?

Averaging 50 a game? Did your mother sit on your head while you were an infant?

[Ronaldinho]

Lebron could, but he would have Kobe's efficiency which is just average.

Lebron couldnt even with low efficiency

9 50 points game

[CavaliersFTW]

The list of players who "can" average 50 a game efficiently if they needed too begins with Wilt Chamberlain and ends with Wilt Chamberlain. If another player could even come close to that they'd have already done it by now. The mid 30's per game seems to be the realistic limits for most of NBA history's gifted scorers and even then, few have ever maintained those kinds of volumes with efficiency

[Gotterdammerung]

The list of players who "can" average 50 a game efficiently if they needed too begins with Wilt Chamberlain and ends with Wilt Chamberlain. If another player could even come close to that they'd have already done it by now. The mid 30's per game seems to be the realistic limits for most of NBA history's gifted scorers and even then, few have ever maintained those kinds of volumes with efficiency

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[HomieWeMajor]

Steph Curry
Let him chuck 3s every possession

[ThaRegul8r]

Why on earth would any team "need" one player to average 50 points a game?



That would only benefit "fans" of certain players and fantasy basketball participants. No team with one player averaging 50 points would win anything. And what team nowadays would be happy with one player taking the amount of shots that would be necessary for a 50-point average?

[daj0264]

Wilt, Kareem and Jordan could if they were allowed to shoot very often.

[inclinerator]

Steph Curry
Let him chuck 3s every possession

i dont think so, seems like he would tire out

[Psileas]

The list of players who "can" average 50 a game efficiently if they needed too begins with Wilt Chamberlain and ends with Wilt Chamberlain. If another player could even come close to that they'd have already done it by now. The mid 30's per game seems to be the realistic limits for most of NBA history's gifted scorers and even then, few have ever maintained those kinds of volumes with efficiency

About this, although I'll say early 70's Kareem would be probably decent taking a ton of shots. Look at it this way: In 1972, Kareem averaged 40 ppg against Wilt, not because Wilt was a bad defender, but because Kareem was determined to be playing his best against him, which sometimes seemed to mean in his mind (not always correctly) that he had to be taking lots of shots. If Kareem was able to take 30 fga against one of the game's elite defenders (who frequently tried to deny him the ball) and average 40 ppg, I'll say he'd be able to take even more shots and average more than 40 ppg against the rest of the league (and on better %'s than the 45% he shot against Wilt) if he wanted to.

As an aside though, Kareem liked to conserve energy a little too often, so this isn't a plausible scenario, anyway. Some in the early 70's were expecting him to be the next 100-point scorer, and he never cared to even get 60 in a game, although he definitely could.