White NBA Players to Average Over 30 points for a Season

[white lightning]

Hey guys. I'm keeping a close eye on Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic to see if either of them can finish the season averaging over 30 pts per game. Currently Doncic is at 29 pts per game and Jokic at 27.1 with plenty of time to still get over the mark. I think Luka will join this elite club and that would be great! The icing on the cake would be to see both of them do it in the same season!

(White NBA Players to average over 30 pts per game for a season)

1960 Jack Twyman 31.2 points per game

1962 Jerry West 30.8 points per game

1965 Jerry West 31 points per game

1966 Jerry West 31.3 points per game

1967 Rick Barry 35.6 points per game

1970 Jerry West 31.2 points per game

1975 Rick Barry 30.6 points per game

1977 Pete Maravich 31.1 points per game


(Rule changes at end of 2005 season made scoring easier, and the defensive three-seconds rule weakened defenses big time. Sad.) Add to that the the majority of the teams have ball hogs that do not want to see our
guys acheive this feat anymore. Also you can see the like the NFL in the 80's till today the Caste System in Sports changed the NBA Game dramatically and looked down on our players as stars.

 

[Don Wassall]

Nice work, White Lightning! This is a comparable thread to those charting thousand yard White runners and receivers in the NFL, though 30 ppg is a tougher accomplishment than a thousand yards in football.

I remember watching Rick Barry and Jerry West in his later years. Besides being a lights out shooter, Barry rarely missed a free throw. West was just a great all-around player. Maravich had a good career but didn't quite live up to expectations after his college years as a scoring machine.

 

[jacknyc]

Barry drove to the hoop a lot when he was younger.
As he got older, he shot more from the outside, and he was deadly.

 

[white lightning]

The NBA didn't start using the 3 point line until the 1979-1980 Season. So as great as these white basketball players were they would have scored alot more points per game. West, Barry and Marivich could all shoot
the lights out from distance. Even more amazing is the fact that Pistol Peter Maravich averaged over 44 pts per game in college which is still the all time NCAA Record for points per game over 5 decades later. Maravich
acheived this amazing point total dominating college basketball without a 3 point shot at the time. Incredible to think about just how great he was!

 

[white lightning]

The Greatest NCAA College Basketball Player to ever live and it's not even close!

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...-college-basketball-stats-best-moments-quotes

 

[El Gringo]

I had no idea Barry averaged 36.6 a game for a season! My grandpa painted his house back in the day and said he was a pretty good guy. He met one of the boys but couldn’t remember which one. Brent had the skills to be just as good but seemed to be content as a perimeter floater. Thanks for the list, I hope Luka can pull it off this year!

 

[Carolina Speed]

The Greatest NCAA College Basketball Player to ever live and it's not even close!
No doubt WL. I believe he would have averaged 30 or points in the NBA more often had he not sustained a major knee injury in 1978. After that injury he was never the same. He was also a searching for something else out of life. He tried all kinds of Religions, a belief in UFO's, and transcendental meditation. Thankfully, he finally became a born again Christian before he died of a heart attack. If you get a chance, please watch video of his Christian Testimony. It's an amazing story.
https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...-college-basketball-stats-best-moments-quotes

 

[Bucky]

C'mon Luka get to 30 and make the Playoffs!

 

[Don Wassall]

I had no idea Barry averaged 36.6 a game for a season! My grandpa painted his house back in the day and said he was a pretty good guy. He met one of the boys but couldn’t remember which one. Brent had the skills to be just as good but seemed to be content as a perimeter floater. Thanks for the list, I hope Luka can pull it off this year!

Barry's son Brent, who was the 15th pick of the first round in 1995, won the 1996 Slam Dunk Contest:

 

[Menelik]

Barry's son Brent, who was the 15th pick of the first round in 1995, won the 1996 Slam Dunk Contest:

Met Mr. Barry in the middle 90s in K.C. Missouri. The wife and I were on vacation and I spotted him at an upscale restaurant we were both at. I was probably the only one in there who recognized him. I was going to wait until he finished eating but I guess that my constant looking at him made it obvious that I was a fan so he came to our table, was gracious enough to take pictures with the wife and I and I got an autograph from him. A class act of a guy, he was a basketball player who was popular across the races "back in the day."

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

i've heard it mentioned many times by people “in the know” that Rick Barry was blackballed from coaching, but i have never heard the reason. it seems bizarre to me, to say the least, especially when considering the (often criminal or flat out terrible decision making) off court lives of many who joined the coaching ranks over the years (hello, Isaiah Thomas?!).

i’ve even seen Barry offer to help struggling players with free throws at no charge (most notably Shaquille O’Neal), though most are too ignorantly proud to accept his aid.

does anyone here know why the coaching door has remained closed to Rick Barry?

edited to add: as i understand it, after applying for many coaching opportunities, he finally gave up on the pursuit.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

Barry's son Brent, who was the 15th pick of the first round in 1995, won the 1996 Slam Dunk Contest:

Brent Barry, one of my favorite players back in the day, is the only NBA dunk contest winner to have the distinction of being “unathletic.” i’m not sure how he could do the things he did (perhaps it was White supremacy?) without being physically gifted, but that was what many of the talking heads and “experts” said of him during his career. regardless, Bones was fun to watch ... and his passing ability was BRILLIANT!

 

[Menelik]

Rick Barry’s opinions may have cost him an NBA job - The Boston Globe

 

[El Gringo]

Rick Barry’s opinions may have cost him an NBA job - The Boston Globe

Awesome! No wonder my grandpa liked him, he was a Hard ass himself.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

Rick Barry’s opinions may have cost him an NBA job - The Boston Globe

thank you, sir. seems like a VERY weak reason to not hire a guy who is obviously exceptionally talented. but, hey, this is the world of athletics where “the best person gets the job,” right? *smirk*