While today’s NBA analysis often emphasizes advanced stats, we shouldn’t overlook the game’s ultimate goal: scoring points.<\/p>\n
There’s a balance here, though. We also need to avoid the trap of thinking “buckets equal impact.” <\/p>\n
For example, in 2024-25, Brooklyn Nets gunner Cam Thomas averaged the same number of points (24.0) as Donovan Mitchell. And nobody would ever trade Mitchell for Thomas straight up.<\/p>\n
Here, we’ll predict the top 10 scorers in the league for the upcoming campaign. We’ll exclude players unlikely to meet the 58 games required to qualify for a scoring title (so long, Joel Embiid and Zion Williamson), and we’ll also consider aging curves (farewell, LeBron James and Kevin Durant).<\/p>\n
The result is a list made up of rising superstars and established bucket-getters, most of whom will probably generate some MVP buzz.<\/p>\n
Maybe buckets equal impact after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While today’s NBA analysis often emphasizes advanced stats, we shouldn’t overlook the game’s ultimate goal: scoring points. There’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-177606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}