page_title: List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders
section_title: Scoring leaders
hierarchical_section_title: List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders / Scoring leaders
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional basketball player Wilt Chamberlain
context_page_description: In basketball, points are accumulated through free throws or field goals. The National Basketball Association's 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 had just been implemented in the NBA at the start of that season. To qualify for the scoring title, the player must appear in at least 58 games. However, a player who appears in fewer than 58 games may qualify as annual scoring leader if his point total would have given him the greatest average, had he appeared in 58 games. This has been the requirement since the 2013–14 season, with requirements changing several times previously throughout history.
  Wilt Chamberlain holds the all-time records for total points scored and points per game in a season; both records were achieved in the 1961–62 season.
caption: Wilt Chamberlain won seven consecutive scoring titles from 1960 to 1966.
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