List of National Basketball Association top individual scoring season averages

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NBA minimum requirements for scoring average are 70 games played or 1400 points scored. The NBA initiated three-point field goals during the 1979-80 season.

Rank Season Player Team Games FG 3FG FT Pts PPG
1 1961-62 Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia Warriors 80 1597 0 835 4029 50.4
2 1962-63 Wilt Chamberlain San Francisco Warriors 80 1463 0 660 3586 44.8
3 1960-61 Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia Warriors 79 1251 0 531 3033 38.4
4 1961-62 Elgin Baylor Los Angeles Lakers 48 680 0 476 1836 38.3
5 1959-60 Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia Warriors 72 1065 0 577 2707 37.6
6 1986-87 Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls 80 1098 12 833 3041 37.1
7 1963-64 Wilt Chamberlain San Francisco Warriors 80 1204 0 540 2948 36.9
8 1966-67 Rick Barry San Francisco Warriors 78 1011 0 753 2775 35.6
9 2005-06 Kobe Bryant Los Angeles Lakers 80 978 180 696 2832 35.4
10 1987-88 Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls 82 1069 7 723 2868 35.0
11 1971-72 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Milwaukee Bucks 81 1159 0 504 2822 34.8
12 1960-61 Elgin Baylor Los Angeles Lakers 73 931 0 676 2538 34.8
13 1964-65 Wilt Chamberlain SF Warriors/Phil 76ers 73 1063 0 408 2534 34.7
14 1974-75 Bob McAdoo Buffalo Braves 82 1095 0 641 2831 34.5
15
(tie)		 1962-63 Elgin Baylor Los Angeles Lakers 80 1029 0 661 2719 34.0
1972-73 Nate Archibald Kansas City-Omaha Kings 80 1028 0 663 2719 34.0
17 1989-90 Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls 82 1034 92 593 2753 33.6
18 1965-66 Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia 76ers 79 1074 0 501 2649 33.5
19 1979-80 George Gervin San Antonio Spurs 78 1024 32 505 2585 33.1
20 2005-06 Allen Iverson Philadelphia 76ers 72 815 72 675 2377 33.0
21 1984-85 Bernard King New York Knicks 55 691 1 426 1809 32.9

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