Highest Single-Season Scoring Averages in NBA History

NBA players ranked by points per game average in a single regular season, according to official NBA Statistics records. Wilt Chamberlain's 1961–62 season scoring average of 50.4 points per game is the most extraordinary individual statistical achievement in the history of North American professional sport — a figure so far outside the normal range of elite performance that it has never been seriously threatened in the six decades since it was set. Chamberlain accomplished this total while playing virtually every minute of every game, in an era before the three-point line, shot clock variations, or defensive schemes designed specifically to contain him had been developed. His dominance over the 1960–61 through 1962–63 seasons — in which he averaged 38.4, 50.4, and 44.8 points per game respectively — represents a three-year stretch of statistical production that remains unmatched in any major professional sport.