NBA records which will never be broken

[tsherkin]

Not necessarily a "record"...but the 1993-94 & 1994-95 seasons the top 3 regular season scorers were Centers.

Has never happened before or since in NBA history.

I dunno, it might, man. We have some big dudes who can definitely ball again, and with their range and what have you, who knows? Jokic and Embiid make 2 out of the 3 we need. KAT is still technically a center and maybe Adebayo will round things out one day.

[Castle Black]

Spurs 18 straight 50-win seasons. Don’t see that ever being done again. And it likely would’ve been 19 or 20 straight if not for the lockout shortened season in 1999 where they won 37 out of 50 games.

[_qubik]

stockton récords are more doable than people think imo, Chris Paul with better health would challenge them

wilt scoring average and rebounding average récords are the ones that are impossible now

the 100 point record is absurdly hard but possible imo

CP3 nickname is point god, he is still averaging close to 10 assists in an advanced age for the league, when will we see another guy like him ? Even more with iron manesque health ?

[ellobo]

Moses Malone career offensive rebounds.

Moses has 6731 offensive rebounds (NBA) and 7382 total (ABA plus NBA).

The closest current players are Dwight Howard with 4151 (56% of Moses's total) and Andre Drummond with 3253 (44% of Moses's total).

The gap between Moses and the second best total (Artis Gilmore) is bigger than the gap between Artis Gilmore and number 74 on the career list (Vin Baker).

The caveat to this is that offensive rebounds have only been counted since 1973-74 (NBA) and 1967-68 (ABA) so the career list doesn't include Wilt or Russell.

[FuShengTHEGreat]

Not necessarily a "record"...but the 1993-94 & 1994-95 seasons the top 3 regular season scorers were Centers.

Has never happened before or since in NBA history.

I dunno, it might, man. We have some big dudes who can definitely ball again, and with their range and what have you, who knows? Jokic and Embiid make 2 out of the 3 we need. KAT is still technically a center and maybe Adebayo will round things out one day.

We'll have to see. Not sure which potentially great big men there are coming out of the NCAA now with the scoring repertoire to make this happen....currently I don't see any on the horizon. Now there may be a hidden gem like Jokic again to come from overseas so that's another story.

If they can get even one season like that I'd be shocked. But b2b seasons where the top 3 regular season scorers are Centers...I'm not seeing that with the wealth of sublime perimeter scoring in the league now.

[Nate505]

Here's another Stockton record that probably won't ever be broken. His 16 seasons of playing all 82 regular season games, especially in this wuss ass load management era. He'd probably have 17 if it weren't for the lockout season.

It does make me wonder if he holds the record for most seasons of playing in every regular season game in NBA history, but I don't quite know exactly what the number of games played in a season was in the early days.

[tsherkin]

We'll have to see. Not sure which potentially great big men there are coming out of the NCAA now with the scoring repertoire to make this happen....currently I don't see any on the horizon. Now there may be a hidden gem like Jokic again to come from overseas so that's another story.

If they can get even one season like that I'd be shocked. But b2b seasons where the top 3 regular season scorers are Centers...I'm not seeing that with the wealth of sublime perimeter scoring in the league now.

It's possible, but yes, if it doesn't happen in the next five years or so, we probably won't see it again for quite some time.

[SpreeS]

A lot of Curry 3P records...

[breezypeezy]

Minutes per game for a season - Wilt Chamberlain 48.5(1962)

And also his "other worldly" career average of 45.8 mpg over 16 seasons!
No-one ever touching either of those accomplishments.

[JN61]

Lebron's turnover record.

[JN61]

A lot of Curry 3P records...

Most of them will be broken within next 10 years.

[SpreeS]

A lot of Curry 3P records...

Most of them will be broken within next 10 years.

As always you dont know what are you talking.

[-Luke-]

Here's another Stockton record that probably won't ever be broken. His 16 seasons of playing all 82 regular season games, especially in this wuss ass load management era. He'd probably have 17 if it weren't for the lockout season.

It does make me wonder if he holds the record for most seasons of playing in every regular season game in NBA history, but I don't quite know exactly what the number of games played in a season was in the early days.

What's crazy is that his teammate Karl Malone had 10 seasons with 82 games, 5 with 81, 2 with 80 and the lockdown season where he played 49 games. He only really missed time when he left Utah for the Lakers.

The two of them just never missed any games. Must be something about the Salt Lake City air.

[JN61]

Not necessarily a "record"...but the 1993-94 & 1994-95 seasons the top 3 regular season scorers were Centers.

Has never happened before or since in NBA history.

I dunno, it might, man. We have some big dudes who can definitely ball again, and with their range and what have you, who knows? Jokic and Embiid make 2 out of the 3 we need. KAT is still technically a center and maybe Adebayo will round things out one day.

He haven't even come close to averaging 20 ppg as almost 25 year old.

[Ryoga Hibiki]

Inspired by LeBron passing Karl Malone on the total points ranking.

Post yours, I'll post 5 for now:

1. Wilt Chamberlain's 50,4 scoring average (1961/1962 season)

2. Wilt Chamberlain's 27,2 rebounding average (1960/1961 season)

3. John Stockton's 15.806 assists (career)

4. John Stockton's 3.265 steals (career)

5. Ben Simmons' 2.807 consecutive days playing Call of Duty (and counting)

Ok the joke, but there's a Stockton record that I think is really hard to believe, especially nowadays: he played the full 82 games in 17 (out of 19) seasons.

[Ryoga Hibiki]

stockton récords are more doable than people think imo, Chris Paul with better health would challenge them

wilt scoring average and rebounding average récords are the ones that are impossible now

the 100 point record is absurdly hard but possible imo

Are you sure?

He has averaged 9.5 for his whole career. Stockton averaged 10.5. This is a whole apg.
Only one player has averaged more than Stockton. This was Magic Johnson.

And in case you could average 10.5 apg, you have to play more than 1504 games. Only 4 players did it.

Seems pretty undoable.

Paul is right now almost 37 and with 10894 assists in 1148 games.

He is 4912 assists to go. At 9.5 apg he is 517 games away. He should play 6 complete seasons and 1st half of another. Altough this year is dishing 10.7 apg, he was not arriving to his average the last 5 years. And he only has played 82 games one season in 17 years.

Moreover, when Magic retired Stockton had a higher apg.
He only passed him again because Stockton had many post prime years player less minutes (and still being higher in assx36min)

[JN61]

stockton récords are more doable than people think imo, Chris Paul with better health would challenge them

wilt scoring average and rebounding average récords are the ones that are impossible now

the 100 point record is absurdly hard but possible imo

Are you sure?

He has averaged 9.5 for his whole career. Stockton averaged 10.5. This is a whole apg.
Only one player has averaged more than Stockton. This was Magic Johnson.

And in case you could average 10.5 apg, you have to play more than 1504 games. Only 4 players did it.

Seems pretty undoable.

Paul is right now almost 37 and with 10894 assists in 1148 games.

He is 4912 assists to go. At 9.5 apg he is 517 games away. He should play 6 complete seasons and 1st half of another. Altough this year is dishing 10.7 apg, he was not arriving to his average the last 5 years. And he only has played 82 games one season in 17 years.

Exactly. Nobody in the league currently was even close by time they hit their peaks.

Only way for someone to break Stockton's assist record would pretty much to be to join the league as still 18 year old and playing till 40 year old and more or less average 10 assists for 15 years with really good Harden/Westbrook type of health, who have been pretty iron mans for most of their careers for this era. And on top of that have very good first years and very good 38-40 year seasons in the league. It's just next to impossible when you factor John's health. He was really an ironman. Westbrook has averaged ~73 games per season for his career and Harden 72.5. Westbrook has missed 7.9% of his career games and Harden has missed 8.5%. Stockton averaged 79 games per season, and only missed 1.4% games of his career. 22 games in total. That is utter craziness.

To beat Stockton's 1504 game record (not the record holder) as coming in league as 19 and staying till 40 year old (22 seasons) one would need to average over 68 games per season average. Health Wise Chris Paul is like 0.5 games per season behind that pace but of course joined the league later and probably won't play as long.


I think only reasonably beatable record of Stockton's would be APG. I think if Westbrook had stayed with Wizards this past season he would have given it a chance. He is only one in the league shameless enough to try such massive volume of playmaking, while one of few ones who know how to rack up those assists. Last 35 games of the last season he averaged 13.4 assists per game, still 1.1 behind but it could be at least somewhat realistic for someone to beat. But these longeativity ones? No frikking way.

[JN61]

stockton récords are more doable than people think imo, Chris Paul with better health would challenge them

wilt scoring average and rebounding average récords are the ones that are impossible now

the 100 point record is absurdly hard but possible imo

Are you sure?

He has averaged 9.5 for his whole career. Stockton averaged 10.5. This is a whole apg.
Only one player has averaged more than Stockton. This was Magic Johnson.

And in case you could average 10.5 apg, you have to play more than 1504 games. Only 4 players did it.

Seems pretty undoable.

Paul is right now almost 37 and with 10894 assists in 1148 games.

He is 4912 assists to go. At 9.5 apg he is 517 games away. He should play 6 complete seasons and 1st half of another. Altough this year is dishing 10.7 apg, he was not arriving to his average the last 5 years. And he only has played 82 games one season in 17 years.

Moreover, when Magic retired Stockton had a higher apg.
He only passed him again because Stockton had many post prime years player less minutes (and still being higher in assx36min)

Magic had higher APG for the career than Stockton even when Magic retired but by 94 Stockton had lifted his averages to past Magic's averages. After 97 those started to come slowly down to earth obviously. But yes, if Magic hadn't retired early it's pretty safe to say Stockton would be leading this category as well. however if Magic could have had full length career I wouldn't be surprised if he finished closer to 15,000 assists as well. Not that far off Stockton.

[FJS]

Are you sure?

He has averaged 9.5 for his whole career. Stockton averaged 10.5. This is a whole apg.
Only one player has averaged more than Stockton. This was Magic Johnson.

And in case you could average 10.5 apg, you have to play more than 1504 games. Only 4 players did it.

Seems pretty undoable.

Paul is right now almost 37 and with 10894 assists in 1148 games.

He is 4912 assists to go. At 9.5 apg he is 517 games away. He should play 6 complete seasons and 1st half of another. Altough this year is dishing 10.7 apg, he was not arriving to his average the last 5 years. And he only has played 82 games one season in 17 years.

Moreover, when Magic retired Stockton had a higher apg.
He only passed him again because Stockton had many post prime years player less minutes (and still being higher in assx36min)

Magic had higher APG for the career than Stockton even when Magic retired but by 94 Stockton had lifted his averages to past Magic's averages. After 97 those started to come slowly down to earth obviously. But yes, if Magic hadn't retired early it's pretty safe to say Stockton would be leading this category as well. however if Magic could have had full length career I wouldn't be surprised if he finished closer to 15,000 assists as well. Not that far off Stockton.

Probably. Still he played 13 years. Say he finish with until 96, he doesn't miss a single game at 11.2 apg since 91-92 until 94-95. It would be 3673. It would be a total of 13814.... 2000 assists less than Stockton.

[FJS]

Are you sure?

He has averaged 9.5 for his whole career. Stockton averaged 10.5. This is a whole apg.
Only one player has averaged more than Stockton. This was Magic Johnson.

And in case you could average 10.5 apg, you have to play more than 1504 games. Only 4 players did it.

Seems pretty undoable.

Paul is right now almost 37 and with 10894 assists in 1148 games.

He is 4912 assists to go. At 9.5 apg he is 517 games away. He should play 6 complete seasons and 1st half of another. Altough this year is dishing 10.7 apg, he was not arriving to his average the last 5 years. And he only has played 82 games one season in 17 years.

Moreover, when Magic retired Stockton had a higher apg.
He only passed him again because Stockton had many post prime years player less minutes (and still being higher in assx36min)

Magic had higher APG for the career than Stockton even when Magic retired but by 94 Stockton had lifted his averages to past Magic's averages. After 97 those started to come slowly down to earth obviously. But yes, if Magic hadn't retired early it's pretty safe to say Stockton would be leading this category as well. however if Magic could have had full length career I wouldn't be surprised if he finished closer to 15,000 assists as well. Not that far off Stockton.

Probably. Still he played 13 years. Say he finish with until 96, he doesn't miss a single game at 11.2 apg since 91-92 until 94-95. It would be 3673. It would be a total of 13814.... 2000 assists less than Stockton.