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A scoring boom, blowouts and nerding out on Steph Curry, Zion and Durant: The wildest stats of the NBA season


As we enter the home stretch of the season, I’ve resigned myself to knowing we aren’t going to know much more about what to expect from any of the contenders in the playoffs until the playoffs. With even the Lakers and Nets dealing with significant injury and recovery issues headed towards the postseason, I can’t remember a season that felt more up in the air with two weeks left to go.

So, rather than speculate on the unknowable, I’m going to use this week to (apologies to Walt Frazier) illuminate and celebrate some of the more extreme statistical feats from this most extreme of seasons.

The Scoring Explosion

Entering Monday’s play, teams were scoring an average of 111.9 points per game this season. While this isn’t the highest of all time, it’s the most since 1970-71, where the average was 112.4/GM, but teams needed about 20 more scoring chances per game than they see in the modern era to reach that mark.





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