There are a lot of ways to make the case that someone is the best scorer in NBA history.
There's the raw points total, which LeBron James has the most of. There's the pureness of the scoring, like the smooth Kevin Durant. There's the historical dominance, like Wilt Chamberlain, or the legendary greatness of Michael Jordan.
The name of Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo probably wouldn't enter into the main portions of that discussion.
But one stat says that maybe the Greek Freak should be a part of it.
The numbers come from OptaStats:
"Giannis Antetokounmpo has scored 30+ points on 55.0% shooting or better in 25.2% of games played in his career – the highest percentage of any player in NBA history (minimum 100 games)."
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So that's saying that basically one out of every four games that Antetokounmpo has played in his NBA career has ended with him scoring 30 or more points on 55% or better shooting.
Considering that the early stages of Antetokounmpo's career featured an incredibly raw player not at that level yet, it's an even higher percentage of such games in the prime of his NBA tenure.
Giannis may not be chucking up a lot of long-distance shots or taking a lot of contested fadeaways, but that's part of the impressiveness of it all. Usually, Antetokounmpo is just going to take it straight at the defense, and it works.
He might not have the biggest "bag" in the league, but it doesn't matter. The objective is to put the ball in the basket, and Antetokounmpo does that about as well as anyone ever has.
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