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In 2024, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 led the league in scoring, averaging 23.6 field goal attempts per game, making 11.5 of them, and shooting an efficient 48.7% from the field.<\/p>\n
Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s prolific 2024 season was supported not only by high shot volume but also by high efficiency. He led the league in field goal attempts per game (23.6) and also made field goals per game (11.5). Maintaining a 48.7 field goal percentage on that volume is remarkably impressive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dating back to the 2000-01 season, only 17 players have averaged 22.0 field goal attempts per game while shooting at least 45 percent from the floor. On that list, Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s 2024 ranks fourth in terms of field goal percentage while maintaining that shot volume. Interestingly, Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s 2023 season ranked second when he shot 49.6 percent from the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Don\u010di\u0107 wasn\u2019t just the league\u2019s best scorer in 2024, though. He impacted the game in every facet. He fell just short of averaging a triple-double with 9.8 assists and 9.2 rebounds per game. Since 2000-01, only Don\u010di\u0107 and Russell Westbrook (2016-17) have put up at least 30 points, 9.5 assists and 9.0 rebounds per game over the course of a full season.<\/p>\n
Luka had some truly unbelievable single-game performances that season. He had 49 double-doubles and 21 triple-doubles to go with two 50-point games and an additional 11 40-point games. In January of 2024, Don\u010di\u0107 had a career-high 73 points against the Hawks in a 148-143 win. He was 17-for-20 from the floor and 15-for-16 from the line while adding 10 rebounds and seven assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There have only been 15 70-point outings in NBA history. Interestingly, Embiid had a 70-point outing of his own just four days before Don\u010di\u0107 dropped 73 on the Hawks. There were two such games the previous season (Damian Lillard, Donovan Mitchell), and before that, Devin Booker\u2019s 70-point game in 2017 was the only such game since Kobe Bryant\u2019s famous 81-point game in 2006.<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s incredible season led to the Mavericks being a dangerous team in the playoffs. Though the Mavericks were only the No.5 seed in the West, they conquered their challenging path and made it all the way to the NBA Finals. The Mavericks took down the top-seeded Thunder in the Conference Semifinals and dispatched the Timberwolves in five games to make it to the Finals, where they would ultimately fall to the Celtics.<\/p>\n
Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s 2024 goes down as one of the most impressive scoring seasons this century. He\u2019s one of six qualified players to average at least 33.0 points per game over a season. His 33.9 PPG ranks behind only James Harden (36.1 in 2019; 34.3 in 2020) and Kobe Bryant (35.4 in 2006) since the 2000 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 led the league in scoring, averaging 23.6 field goal attempts per game, making 11.5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,146889,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-247335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-luka-doncic-2024-scoring-season","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}