Claim: Dwyane Wade is a basketball player.

In basketball , points are the sum of the score accumulated through free throws or field goals . The National Basketball Association 's -LRB- NBA -RRB- scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average in a given season . The scoring title was originally determined by total points scored through the 1968 -- 69 season , after which points per game was used to determine the leader instead . Players who earned scoring titles before the 1979 -- 80 season did not record any three-point field goals because the three-point line was first implemented in the NBA during that season . To qualify for the scoring title , the player must appear in at least 70 games -LRB- out of 82 -RRB- or have at least 1,400 points . These have been the entry criteria since the 1974 -- 75 season .   Wilt Chamberlain holds the all-time records for total points scored -LRB- 4,029 -RRB- and points per game -LRB- 50.4 -RRB- in a season ; both records were achieved in the 1961 -- 62 season . He also holds the rookie records for points per game when he averaged 37.6 points in the 1959 -- 60 season . Among active players , Kevin Durant has the highest point total -LRB- 2,593 -RRB- and the highest scoring average -LRB- 32.0 -RRB- in a season ; both were achieved in the 2013 -- 14 season .   Michael Jordan has won the most scoring titles , with ten . Jordan and Chamberlain are the only players to have won seven consecutive scoring titles -LRB- this was also Chamberlain 's career total -RRB- . George Gervin , Allen Iverson and Durant have won four scoring titles in their career , and George Mikan , Neil Johnston and Bob McAdoo have achieved it three times . Paul Arizin , Bob Pettit , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Shaquille O'Neal , Tracy McGrady , Kobe Bryant , and Russell Westbrook have each won the scoring title twice . Since the 1946 -- 47 season , five players have won both the scoring title and the NBA championship in the same season : Fulks in 1947 with the Philadelphia Warriors , Mikan from 1949 to 1950 with the Minneapolis Lakers , Abdul-Jabbar -LRB- then Alcindor -RRB- in 1971 with the Milwaukee Bucks , Jordan from 1991 to 1993 and from 1996 to 1998 with the Chicago Bulls , and O'Neal in 2000 with the Los Angeles Lakers . Since the introduction of the three-point field goal , O'Neal is the only scoring leader to have made no three-point field goals in his winning season .   At 21 years and 197 days , Durant is the youngest scoring leader in NBA history , averaging 30.1 points in the 2009 -- 10 season . The most recent champion is Russell Westbrook , who averaged a career-high 31.6 points in the 2016 -- 17 season .