Los Angeles Lakers: 3 unbreakable Lakers season records
By Jason Reed
The Los Angeles Lakers are the most historic franchise in the NBA. No franchise has as many superstars as the Lakers have had come through their ranks and the team is tied for the most championships in the NBA with 17.
The Lakers continue to be the gold standard of the league as the team has the face of the game in LeBron James as well as a superstar cast around him of Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis. Decades from now, basketball fans will be talking about how the Lakers had (at least) six Hall of Famers on the same team.
While the franchise has continued its gold standards, there are certain franchise records from the past that will simply never be replicated.
The three unbreakable season records in Los Angeles Lakers history:
Points in a season: Kobe Bryant, 2,832
Elgin Baylor holds the record for the most points per game in a season, averaging just under 40 points per game in the 1961-62 season. However, he played only 48 games that season so he does not even come close to the most points in a single season.
Instead, that record belongs to the player who has the record for the second-most points per game in Lakers history, Kobe Bryant. Bryant averaged 35.4 points per game in 80 games during the 2005-06 season for a grand total of 2,832 points scored.
In today’s NBA, where resting has become such a prominent thing for superstar players, it is hard to see this number being topped. Ironically enough, offense is at an all-time high in the league as well but the wear and tear to score juts under 3,000 points is a lot in today’s age.
Someone would have to play all 82 games and average 34.5 points per game. If they missed 10 games, which is now common, they would need to average 39.3 points per game.
It just is not going to happen. The only players in NBA history with more points in a season are Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan.