It is not easy to score 2,000 points in a single season, which not only means having a high enough tactical position in the team, excellent scoring ability, but also maintaining excellent scoring performance, and the attendance rate must not be too low, that is, the average score per game is 30 points, and the regular season must be played in at least 67 games to score at least 2,000 points. Let's take a look at how many 2,000-point seasons each of the six active stars have, Leonard 0 times, Curry 2 times, and Harden 7 times are still not the first.
Leonard
12 years of career
2000 Season (0 times)
Leonard is known as the "card frame version of Jordan", he has a wealth of offensive skills, and gradually entered the peak after he became a prolific and efficient main attacker, Leonard is one of the most powerful individual offensive players in the league today, the mid-distance single ability is strong and steady, the face frame, back play can have good efficiency, strong solution ability is outstanding, and at the same time can score steadily without the ball, and the ability to make free throws is also quite reliable, of course, he can use a variety of offensive skills to help the team build a healthy situation.
Leonard has won FMVP twice in his career, the second most active players, and can still maintain a strong offensive firepower output under the playoff-level confrontation, and even averaged 30.5 points per game in the 2019 playoffs.
In the regular season, Leonard scored 1,888 points at most once, and there were four seasons when the total points in the regular season were above 1,500 points.
Curry
15 years of career
2000 Season (2 times)
As one of the stars with the best shooting touch and the widest range of projection in NBA history, Curry is almost unstoppable when he comes to score points in the game, and the excellent combination of man and ball combined with the league's top off-ball running ability makes Curry difficult to target in the game, so much so that the Raptors once used the "one-and-four" tactics in the game to try to limit him. In the Warriors, Curry doesn't need to go all out most of the time, and a lot of games are "clocked out".
Curry scored 2,000+ points in a single season in 2015-16 and 2020-21, both of which he eventually won the scoring title, with at least 1,900 points in 2014-15, 2016-17 and 2023-24, and only one point away from 2,000 in 2016-17.
Brother Alphabet
11 years of career
2000 Season (3 times)
Brother Alphabet may be one of the most difficult players to match, the height and strength of the players who defend him, and the defensive skills have put forward extremely high requirements, Brother Alphabet has the top ability to attack the basket, with a height of 2.11 meters, in addition to always being able to complete the violent dunk at a gallop in the fast break, he can also hold the ball from outside the three-point line in the positional battle to launch an attack, and score all the way through the opponent's defense.
Since the 2016-17 season, which is also the first All-Star and All-Star team in his career, his single-season total points have always been above 1700 points, including 2014 points in the 2017-18 season, 2002 points in the 2021-22 season, and 2222 points in the 2023-24 season.
Durant
16 years of career
2000 Season (7 times)
can see an "offensive kaleidoscope" version of Durant, inseparable from the SuperSonics in his rookie year to give him a lot of playing time and full tactical freedom, of course, we can't forget Durant's super learning ability, and the crazy training of "ball idiot" day after day, Kobe Bryant said in an interview that Durant is the player he thinks is the most difficult to defend.
After suffering two serious injuries over the course of his career, Durant has arguably adapted to the changes in his physical abilities, still delivering some of the league's best offensive performances in the game, and even being more confident in many different ways of scoring.
Looking at the performance of the 2023-24 season, the 35-year-old Durant shot 41.3% from three-point range, averaged 2.2 three-pointers per game, and shot 51.8% from mid-range, second in the league. Averaging 3.3 mid-range shots per game, the most in the league, Durant can still lead the team to victory with his rich offensive skills and historic shooting touch when his athleticism is not on par with his peak, and his 2032 points in the 2023-24 season is the seventh time in his career that he has scored at least 2,000 points in the regular season.
In the craziest period in scoring, Durant ranked first in the league in regular season scoring for 5 consecutive years from the 2009-10 season to the 2013-14 season, if it wasn't for the shrinking season in 2011-12, he would probably have one more season with a total of 2000+ points in the regular season, suffered a Jones fracture in the 2014-15 season, and returned to 2029 points in the regular season in the 2015-16 season, and scored 2000+ points in the 2018-19 season in the Warriors' only regular season game. Scored 2027 points.
Durant has become a veteran star from a young player in the league, and he is more familiar with scoring in the game, maybe his breakthrough is not as sharp as before, but the offensive threat is still the biggest level in the league, and no team will be willing to let Durant go to the court for one-on-one. Durant's career total points have reached 28,924 points, becoming the NBA's 8th "Mr. 30,000 Points" is almost a certainty, and he also has the opportunity to play a few more seasons with a total of 2,000+ points in the regular season.
Harden
15 years of career
2000 Season (7 times)
One of Harden's biggest strengths when he entered the league was his basketball IQ, and Harden has shown this vividly in his career, playing well as the team's sixth man and star player, and reading the defense well during the game.
Harden during the peak "Rocket Deng" period is a scorer who makes the league's top defenders have a headache, and he observes the various habits of defenders and changes in action details in particular in detail, easily shaking out space to complete scoring, and making fouls is even more unguardable.
From the 2015-16 season to the 2019-20 season, Harden averaged at least 29 points per game in the regular season for 5 consecutive years, during which he achieved three consecutive scoring titles from the 2017-18 season to the 2019-20 season, and from the perspective of the total points in the regular season, Harden left the Thunder in the 2012-13 season to the Rockets to have the tactical position of the team's outside core, and directly handed over the regular season 2023 points, fourth in the league, From the 2014-15 season to the 2019-20 season, the total points scored in the regular season were 2000+ every year.
In the 2018-19 season, Harden's regular season total score was even as high as 2818 points, and only 6 people in the NBA have done it, that season, Harden performed 32 consecutive 30+ magical performances, and only Chamberlain, who had scored 100 points in a single game in the NBA, had done more games and scored 30+ in a row. However, Harden's 7 single-season regular season 2000+ times were also concentrated in the Rockets period, and the gradual transformation after leaving the team, coupled with the impact of injuries and other factors, it is difficult for Harden to reproduce his unstoppable scoring performance.
James
Career 21 years
2000 Points Season (10 times)
James is one of only three players in NBA history to score 2,000+ points in at least 10 regular season seasons, the other two being Jordan and Karl Malone.
James has the league's top talent, and has not squandered it, has maintained a strong competitiveness in his long career, and at the age of 39, he still has excellent grasp of breaking through the basket, and it is conceivable how destructive the breakthrough is when he is young, and James continues to refine his scoring skills and add new scoring skills as his career progresses, including getting rid of mid-range shots, pull-up jump shots, and back-to-back shots.
In the 2007-08 season, James beat Kobe, Anthony, Iverson and others to win the scoring title, and this season's 2250 points in the regular season are also one of James's 9 regular season scoring 2000+ times in the 10 years from 2004-05 to 2013-14, and the only season with insufficient total points in the regular season is the 2011-12 season.
In the 2017-18 season, in the Cavaliers who have undergone many changes, James played 82 regular season games, played a league-high 3,026 minutes, and scored the league-most 2,251 points, which was his 15th year in the league, still showing first-class offensive strength, and the 2017-18 season is also considered one of the most representative seasons of James' career.
After 21 years in the league, James is already the all-time scoring leader, and every point scored is creating new history, from 2020-21 to 2022-23, James only played 56 regular season games in the most, and it seems that the traces left by the "old man of time" on him are finally beginning to appear.
But in the 2023-24 season, James' appearances have increased to 71 games, during which he also led the Lakers to win the midseason championship, shooting a career-high 41% three-point shooting rate, no one knows how much "gas" he still has in his "tank", and at the age of 40, he may play a regular season performance with a total score of 2000+.