Courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the league’s schedule, we can now say NBA basketball has been played in every month of the calendar year. That prompted us to delve into the data and find out who the leading scorers are for each month.
\nSince LeBron James is now running up the score in the all-time list, you would think he dominates the monthly scoring charts, right? Well, you would be wrong. In fact, seven different players hold the title of leading scorer in at least one month.
\nHere they are:
\n", "content_text": "Courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the league’s schedule, we can now say NBA basketball has been played in every month of the calendar year. That prompted us to delve into the data and find out who the leading scorers are for each month.\nSince LeBron James is now running up the score in the all-time list, you would think he dominates the monthly scoring charts, right? Well, you would be wrong. In fact, seven different players hold the title of leading scorer in at least one month.\nHere they are:", "date_published": "2023-12-20T15:36:43-05:00", "date_modified": "2024-03-10T18:10:39-04:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" }, "image": "https://hoopshype.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2023/11/21898551.jpg", "tags": [ "Evergreen", "Featured", "Statistics", "Basketball" ] }, { "id": "https://hoopshype.com/?post_type=listicle&p=2296781", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/lists/team-usa-all-their-losses-with-nba-players/", "title": "Team USA: All their losses with NBA players", "content_html": "Team USA losing to Lithuania at the World Cup is a surprise, but it doesn’t qualify as an outlandish event anymore. Since the United States started sending NBA players to major FIBA tournaments (Olympics or World Cup), they have lost 11 games… though they had never given up as many points (110) as they did against the Lithuanians.
\nCheck out all the results below:
\n", "content_text": "Team USA losing to Lithuania at the World Cup is a surprise, but it doesn’t qualify as an outlandish event anymore. Since the United States started sending NBA players to major FIBA tournaments (Olympics or World Cup), they have lost 11 games… though they had never given up as many points (110) as they did against the Lithuanians.\nCheck out all the results below:", "date_published": "2023-09-03T12:15:49-04:00", "date_modified": "2023-09-03T12:49:45-04:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" }, "image": "https://hoopshype.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2023/09/1642789619.jpg", "tags": [ "Evergreen", "Featured", "Top", "Basketball", "NBA", "Team USA" ] }, { "id": "https://hoopshype.com/?post_type=listicle&p=2205158", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/lists/the-leading-nba-scorers-during-each-u-s-presidency/", "title": "The leading NBA scorers during each U.S. presidency", "content_html": "Did you know that the top scorer in NBA history (LeBron James) was never the leading scorer during any U.S. presidency? Well, now you know that.
\nWe delved into this fun data during this quiet part NBA offseason, and why not? It certainly makes for an interesting read.
\nAnyways, here are the Top 5 scorers during each U.S. presidency from the George Truman era till the Joe Biden years.
\n(For the record, the always underappreciated Alex English holds the record for most points scored with the same president sitting in office).
\n", "content_text": "Did you know that the top scorer in NBA history (LeBron James) was never the leading scorer during any U.S. presidency? Well, now you know that.\nWe delved into this fun data during this quiet part NBA offseason, and why not? It certainly makes for an interesting read.\nAnyways, here are the Top 5 scorers during each U.S. presidency from the George Truman era till the Joe Biden years.\n(For the record, the always underappreciated Alex English holds the record for most points scored with the same president sitting in office).", "date_published": "2023-07-25T10:33:16-04:00", "date_modified": "2023-07-25T10:33:16-04:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" }, "image": "https://hoopshype.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2023/07/presidential_players.png", "tags": [ "Blast", "Evergreen", "Featured", "Statistics" ] }, { "id": "https://hoopshype.com/?p=1952571", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/all-time-ranking-in-points-rebounds-assists-steals-blocks/", "title": "All-time rankings: Where each NBA player ranks in the main statistical categories", "date_published": "2023-03-20T16:31:25-04:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-20T16:31:25-04:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" }, "image": "https://hoopshype.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2023/03/nba_scouting_reports_points.png", "tags": [ "Blast", "Featured", "Statistics" ] }, { "id": "https://hoopshype.com/?p=1933516", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/nba-scouting-reports/", "title": "NBA scouting reports: All the players in the league", "date_published": "2023-03-10T16:27:23-05:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-10T16:27:23-05:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Jorge Sierra", "url": "https://hoopshype.com/author/jsierrafernandez/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/478f7bc0e21afc7314f2b6c603ea02a3?s=512&d=identicon&r=g" }, "image": "https://hoopshype.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2023/03/NBA_Scouting_Reports.png", "tags": [ "Blast", "Evergreen", "Featured", "Research", "Rosters" ] } ] }