Quite predictably, he's the only player under 6'2" to accomplish that feat." "Through 14 seasons, Iverson scored 24,368 points, making him one of only 39 players to eclipse the 20,000-point plateau. "For his size, no one ever scored like Iverson," Bleacher Report's Dan Favale wrote. Shaq was 7'1" and over 300 pounds for portions of his career. Those two being back to back seems fitting when talking about Iverson's career. And it was a healthy 2.8 points better than second-place Shaquille O'Neal's 26.3. Over that seven-year peak, Iverson's 29.1 points per game ranked first in the league. Iverson was arguably the game's most relentless scorer during the first decade or so of his career. Only 19 players had basic scoring averages above 21 points per game that season. In his MVP campaign, Iverson's relative scoring average was plus-21.0. But in the seven years pegged for Iverson, his relative scoring average was a whopping plus-18.4. Over his career, Lillard has a stellar relative scoring average of 12.3.
Relative scoring average is a player's points per game minus the league-average points per game.
As Kristian Winfield of SB Nation noted, Lillard's resume of buzzer-beaters is far longer than most others'.īut if we go back to the seven-year samples used above, Lillard falls well short of A.I. Lillard's scoring, especially in big moments, has been a driving factor in the Blazers' sustained success. "From a leadership standpoint, responsibility, production, everything had to go up."ĭespite losing their leading scorer to the San Antonio Spurs, the Trail Blazers barely skipped a beat, gradually improving from that 2015 departure all the way to a Western Conference Finals appearance in 2019. 2 spot on Portland's all-time scoring leaderboard, per Casey Holdahl of the team website. "When (Aldridge) left, I was pushed into a different role," Lillard said after he passed his former teammate for the No.
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