HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - list of national basketball league (united states) season scoring leaders
OR:
list of national basketball league (united states) season scoring leaders on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

In
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
, points are accumulated through
free throw In basketball, free throws or foul shots are unopposed attempts to score points by shooting from behind the free-throw line (informally known as the foul line or the charity stripe), a line situated at the end of the restricted area. Free throws ...
s or field goals. The National Basketball League's (NBL) scoring title was awarded to the player with the most total points in a given season. Nelson, Murry R. ''The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949''. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009. Retrieved on June 17, 2019. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
Bobby McDermott Robert Frederick McDermott (January 7, 1914 – October 3, 1963) was an American professional basketball player in the 1930s and 1940s. He was known as an outstanding shooter and has been called "the greatest long-distance shooter in the history ...
holds the NBL all-time record for career points scored (3,583), while fellow Hall of Famer
George Mikan George Lawrence Mikan Jr. (; June 18, 1924 – June 1, 2005), nicknamed "Mr. Basketball", was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Minneapolis Lakers of ...
holds the single season points (1,195) and points per game (21.3) records. McDermott earned the most points spanning an eight-year NBL career, but Mikan only played two seasons and set both records during 1948–49, the final year the league existed.


Key


Season scoring leaders


Career scoring leaders


See also

*
List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders In basketball, points are accumulated through free throws or field goals. The National Basketball Association's (NBA) scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average in a given season. The scoring title was ori ...
*
List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders This article contains two charts: The first chart is a list of the top 50 all-time scorers in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The list includes only points scored in regular season games. The second chart is a progressi ...


References

;General * * ;Specific {{NBL (United States) scoring leaders
Scoring Score or scorer may refer to: *Test score, the result of an exam or test Business * Score Digital, now part of Bauer Radio * Score Entertainment, a former American trading card design and manufacturing company * Score Media, a former Canadian m ...