Joel Embiid, first center to reach 30 points per game since Moses Malone

Joel Embiid will certainly finish the season with the title of best scorer. Even if he does not score tonight against Detroit, the Sixers’ pivot will end the campaign with at least 30.1 points per game.

To pass him on the finish line, Giannis Antetokounmpo (29.9 points per game) must score nearly 50 points more than the Cameroonian pivot in Cleveland. This means that he must score almost 60 points if Joel Embiid is satisfied with 10 points. As much to say that it is mission impossible for the “Greek Freak”, who certainly has other goals in mind for this final game of the season.

What is sure, it is that Joel Embiid will be in any case the first pivot to exceed the bar of 30 points scored per game since … Moses Malone, during the 1981/82 season.

Moreover, only five pivots have reached this average in history: Wilt Chamberlain (7 times), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (x3), Bob McAdoo (x3) Walt Bellamy (x1) and thus Moses Malone (x1). David Robinson (29.8) was not far away in 1993/94, and Shaquille O’Neal would probably have surpassed him several times, if he had been more adept at shooting.

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