Ranking the Biggest Threats to Win 2014-15 NBA Scoring Crown

October 21st, 2014 by Jim Cavan Leave a reply »
Basketball is a game that gives you a million reasons to love it. From deft needle-threading passes to the precise pitch and arc of a corner three, the hardwood abounds with feats both fantastic and infinitesimal.

Mostly, though, we love buckets and lots of them. More specifically, we love the players best imbued with bucket-getting moxie. The Michael Jordans and Allen Iversons, George Gervins and Tracy McGradys—these are the basketball behemoths we watch with widest eyes and jaws most agape.

In honor of the NBA’s foremost fillers of the bucket, we’re running down the eight candidates with the best chance to capture the 2014-15 scoring title.

How did we come up with the rankings?  A complex metric which takes into account past performance, career trajectory and the role the specific player stands to have on his particular team. It's mostly subjective, in other words.

Some of the names will be obvious—their first roundball rodeo, this is not. Others, meanwhile, are looking to take their legends to levels as yet unmet.

All of them, however, are surefire locks to don their conference colors come A ...

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