,
3 tweets,
1 min read
Read on Twitter
James Harden would have to average 38.1 PPG for the rest of the year to beat Michael Jordan's record for PPG In A Season By A Guy Not Named Wilt Chamberlain. (37.1 in 1986-87). That's starting to look quite doable.
Harden would have to average 41.3 PPG, and play in every remaining game, to beat Jordan's 1986-87 record for Non-Wilt *points* in a season (3,041). Jordan played in all 82 games in 1986-87 whereas Harden has already missed 3. Quite a bit harder but not sure I'd bet against him.
This tweet will have an audience of like 4 people, but I think that NBA fans should use "nonwilt" as an adjective to describe records including everybody except Wilt Chamberlain, in the same way that economists use the term "nonfarm" to describe all jobs except farming jobs.
