First team to attempt more threes than twos: Houston Rockets Here’s a taste of general three-point records which have been replaced. Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images THREE-POINT RECORDSĪs overall three-point shooting gets broken every season, so do more specific shooting records. “So that’s one that I would say that won’t continue to trend down.” “The choice away from that has been a mistake by the league,” Morey told me last week. One more league-wide trend, and one that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey thinks will reverse. The NBA is having its best offensive season ever and the stats prove it Lowest offensive rebounding rate: 22.3 percent (He had four.) This isn’t the highest scoring era in league history, and so this stat shows how impressive the individual talent is around the league. There were 13 such games in total, with James Harden being the only one to record multiple 50-point games. The league set this record last season when 10 players broke the 50-point plateau, and it happened again this year. Most individual players with 50-point games: 10 (tied) These figures will keep rising for the foreseeable future. In the 21 seasons since the league ended its experiment with a shortened three-point line, the number of threes attempted has risen or remained the same 20 times. NBA teams averaged 10.5 made threes and 29 attempted threes per game, once again surpassing last year’s record of 9.7 makes and 27 attempts. Every team had a chance to contribute to these records. While this list is unlikely to be completely comprehensive, it does highlight more than three dozen examples. And some of these records may stand for decades, and that’s just a sign that we’re witnessing history. We know many of these records will be broken again, which is a beautiful representation of the sport’s progress. So just remember that if you’re looking for him on this list.īut it was players like Simmons who helped push the league’s boundaries this year, something that happens with increasingly frequency. While Simmons did pass Magic Johnson, he came nowhere close to Oscar Robertson’s 26 triple-doubles as a rookie. One that was not was the rookie triple-double record, despite some misidentification that Ben Simmons did just that. Triple-doubles were as prominent a conversation as last year, but records galore were still broken. You can likely guess that many relate to three-point shooting, but it’s not just that. This year saw dozens of records fall - old ones and new, on the league, team, and individual level, and sometimes coming with hilarious qualifiers that just barely made them true records. As the NBA keeps pushing its boundaries, so do the record books.
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