NBA Teams With Three 20-PPG Scorers

[IrishRainbow]

Milwaukee Bucks 2002

Ray Allen - 21.4 PPG
Big Dog - 21.0 PPG
Sam Cassell - 20.4 PPG

Damn...was just about to look at that year next.

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[IrishRainbow]

DP

[Brandon-Clyde]

Seattle Supersonics did it in back to back years( 86-87 and 87-88) with Dale Ellis, Xavier McDaniel and Tom Chambers.

[hickfromfrenchlick]

Milwaukee Bucks 2002

Ray Allen - 21.4 PPG
Big Dog - 21.0 PPG
Sam Cassell - 20.4 PPG

Damn...was just about to look at that year next.

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2001-02: Allen 21.8 Robinson 20.7 Cassell 19.7

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIL/2002.html

Not sure if that dude's looking at per-36 stats, but he's not correct.

[hickfromfrenchlick]

Seattle Supersonics did it in back to back years( 86-87 and 87-88) with Dale Ellis, Xavier McDaniel and Tom Chambers.

Updated.

Forgot how good Ellis was in his prime.

[Slax]

My first thought was the Arenas, Jamison, Butler Wizards teams and it appears they had two close misses.

Is there a minimum games played requirement we're looking at for this? It's obviously easier to do the more games missed by top scorers(ex the Raptors 5 players with 15+ is boosted by 6 of their top 7 rotation players missing at least 10 games).

Also somewhat surprised the mid-80s Lakers never achieved this feat, considering they had Magic/Worthy/KAJ and played at an insane pace. They got close in 1985-86, with Worthy and Abdul-Jabbar averaging 20 ppg, but Magic just missing the cut at 19 ppg.

That doesn't surprise me much. Magic wasn't a great volume scorer until well after Kareem was an elite player. I actually was more expecting Magic/Scott/Worthy might have done this in the late 80's, but I guess not.

[foreigngrammar]

Raptors have 5 players all averaging over 15ppg.

Siakim - 23.7ppg
Lowry - 19.6ppg
Vavvleet - 18ppg
Ibaka - 16.1ppg
Powell - 15.3ppg

Only team in the NBA doing this I believe.

Pfff

[The_Hater]

1966-67 Celtics: Jones 22.1 Havlicek 21.4 Howell 20.0
1986-87 Sonics: Ellis 24.9 Chambers 23.3 McDaniel 23.0
1987-88 Sonics: Ellis 25.8 McDaniel 21.4 Chambers 20.4
1990-91 Warriors: Mullin 25.7 Richmond 23.9 Hardaway 22.9
2007-08 Warriors: Davis 21.8 Ellis 20.2 Jackson 20.1
2013-14 Kings: Cousins 22.7 Thomas 20.3 Gay 20.1
2016-17 Warriors: Curry 25.3 Durant 25.1 Thompson 22.3
2017-18 Warriors: Curry 26.4 Durant 26.4 Thompson 20.0
2018-19 Warriors: Curry 27.3 Durant 26.0 Thompson 21.5
2019-20 Celtics: Tatum 22.4 Walker 21.8 Brown 20.2 ?????????

Am I missing any?



https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8rbsrq/since_1990_only_4_teams_have_had_3_players/

Pretty sure you missed a whole bunch of Nugget teams from the 1980’s.

[whitehops]

the nuggets did it three years in a row from 1981-1983 with four players (alex english and dan issel plus david thompson in 81 and kiki vandeweghe in 82 and 83).

[Bornstellar]

Didn't Arenas/Jamison/Hughes have a season where they all hit 20ppg

[whitehops]

Didn't Arenas/Jamison/Hughes have a season where they all hit 20ppg

close, in 2005 jamison had 19.6 PPG while hughes and arenas were over 20. in the next couple seasons jamison was just short again of arenas/caron butler/jamison all getting 20 PPG.

[Duffman100]

Milwaukee Bucks 2002

Ray Allen - 21.4 PPG
Big Dog - 21.0 PPG
Sam Cassell - 20.4 PPG

That trio was vicious.

[Dnt hate]

1966-67 Celtics: Jones 22.1 Havlicek 21.4 Howell 20.0
1986-87 Sonics: Ellis 24.9 Chambers 23.3 McDaniel 23.0
1987-88 Sonics: Ellis 25.8 McDaniel 21.4 Chambers 20.4
1990-91 Warriors: Mullin 25.7 Richmond 23.9 Hardaway 22.9
2007-08 Warriors: Davis 21.8 Ellis 20.2 Jackson 20.1
2013-14 Kings: Cousins 22.7 Thomas 20.3 Gay 20.1
2016-17 Warriors: Curry 25.3 Durant 25.1 Thompson 22.3
2017-18 Warriors: Curry 26.4 Durant 26.4 Thompson 20.0
2018-19 Warriors: Curry 27.3 Durant 26.0 Thompson 21.5
2019-20 Celtics: Tatum 22.4 Walker 21.8 Brown 20.2 ?????????

Am I missing any?



https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8rbsrq/since_1990_only_4_teams_have_had_3_players/

Early 2000s bucks were extremely close with Cassell averages 19.7 for 2 of the years

[Dnt hate]

1966-67 Celtics: Jones 22.1 Havlicek 21.4 Howell 20.0
1986-87 Sonics: Ellis 24.9 Chambers 23.3 McDaniel 23.0
1987-88 Sonics: Ellis 25.8 McDaniel 21.4 Chambers 20.4
1990-91 Warriors: Mullin 25.7 Richmond 23.9 Hardaway 22.9
2007-08 Warriors: Davis 21.8 Ellis 20.2 Jackson 20.1
2013-14 Kings: Cousins 22.7 Thomas 20.3 Gay 20.1
2016-17 Warriors: Curry 25.3 Durant 25.1 Thompson 22.3
2017-18 Warriors: Curry 26.4 Durant 26.4 Thompson 20.0
2018-19 Warriors: Curry 27.3 Durant 26.0 Thompson 21.5
2019-20 Celtics: Tatum 22.4 Walker 21.8 Brown 20.2 ?????????

Am I missing any?



https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8rbsrq/since_1990_only_4_teams_have_had_3_players/

I'm more interested in this stat done during the playoffs

[Dupp]

Initial thought was you missed the clippers but Lou is at 19.5 and Morris is at 19. Close to 4 but not quite 3.

[teerfour+40LG]

Cousins, Gay, and Isaiah Thomas were pretty unguardable. Unfortunately we had Ben McLemore in the starting lineup, which killed us. See video below. If that trio was kept together and Ben was replaced, I have no doubt they would've gotten into the playoffs. Michael Malone expressed a similar feeling some years later.

Watch on YouTube

[Young gun 6]

Raptors have 5 players all averaging over 15ppg.

Siakim - 23.7ppg
Lowry - 19.6ppg
Vavvleet - 18ppg
Ibaka - 16.1ppg
Powell - 15.3ppg

Only team in the NBA doing this I believe.

Sacramento sort of close:

Buddy 20.4
Fox 19.7
Barnes 14.5
Bogdan 14.4
Bagley 14.2
Holmes 13.1
Bjelica 12.3

[Mister Ze]

Initial thought was you missed the clippers but Lou is at 19.5 and Morris is at 19. Close to 4 but not quite 3.

Incorrect to count Morris’s Knicks figures since the whole point is putting up 20 at the same time .

But yeah I think Lou PG and Kawhi have a great chance

[Catchall]

Raptors have 5 players all averaging over 15ppg.

Siakim - 23.7ppg
Lowry - 19.6ppg
Vavvleet - 18ppg
Ibaka - 16.1ppg
Powell - 15.3ppg

Only team in the NBA doing this I believe.

Jazz may get there this year. Just need to play Conley a bit more.

Mitchell - 24.3
Bogdanovic - 21.0
Clarkson - 16.2
Gobert - 15.6
Conley - 13.5

[SkyHookFTW]

1983 Sixers were so very close, Moses 24.5, Dr. J. 21.7, Andrew Toney 19.7.