BladesofSTEELwFIRE
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kareem's career scoring record is breakable. kobe almost certainly won't, but you could see that before he tore his achilles he had a shot. does lebron have a shot? 8 more years of 2,000 points a season (roughly 25 points/game) and he tops it. he'd be 37. durant could conceivably pass it before he's 35.
no, wilt's single season record is almost 100% unbreakable barring major major rule changes. but i don't think gretzky's 215 or 2,857 are any more breakable than wilt's without fundamentally changing the game. relative to their peers, i think they were about as staggeringly dominant statistically.
but just to think about this logically, it would take one crazy day to top wilt's 100. things happen, things line up. kobe hit 82. it could much more easily happen than topping wilt's 50 over 82 games, or topping gretzky's 215 over 82 games. but by the same token, you could make the argument that someone could catch lightning in a bottle for 82 games and average 50, or score 215, a lot more easily than somebody could put up 2,857 over an entire career. that's 142 points/20 years. first of all, how many guys play 20 years? second, there have only been 23 seasons in NHL history of 142 or more points, and 11 of those were gretzky himself. you'd have to average 142 points a season, and putting up 142 has only been done 12 times by guys who are not gretzky. if you add up the 20 highest scoring seasons by players who aren't gretzky, you just barely top his career total (2,979).
Great points about Gretzky vadim. Averaging 142 points a year for 20 years is truly mind boggling! It's why Gretzky is the most dominant team sport athlete ever!
But Gretzky said ssomething very important and very true. He said "everything in life is timing". He was on the PERFECT team at the PERFECT TIME! Be honest, if Gretzky played today he'd be lucky to get 120 points a season instead of those 200 point seasons he had! The stars aligned perfectly for Gretz to play with just the right team at just the right time!