NBA Leaders

Points

Single-season records, every season's leaders, and the career list · regular season.

Rankings as of 2026-10-01, as declared by the corpus that produced them.

Single-Season Records

1
James Harden2019G· HOU
2,818
2
Kobe Bryant2006SF· LAL
2,752
3
Kevin Durant2014F· OKC
2,593
4
Russell Westbrook2017G· OKC
2,558
5
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander2025G· OKC
2,505
6
LeBron James2006F· CLE
2,478
7
Kevin Durant2010F· OKC
2,472
8
Kobe Bryant2003SF· LAL
2,461
9
Kobe Bryant2007SF· LAL
2,414
10
Tracy McGrady2003SG· ORL
2,407

Leaders by Season

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

All-Time Career

1
LeBron James
43,410
2
Kevin Durant
32,514
3
James Harden
29,334
4
Carmelo Anthony
28,244
5
Dirk Nowitzkipartial career

Playoff Career

1
LeBron James
8,521
2
Kevin Durant
5,008
3
Kobe Bryant
4,376
4
Tim Duncan
4,274
5
James Harden
4,240

27,355

26,679

26,450

23,058

22,914

22,611

22,108

Pau Gasolpartial career

20,876

Vince Carterpartial career

20,629

20,407

20,131

19,435

19,431

19,394

19,314

Jamal Crawfordpartial career

19,137

18,578

18,300

18,142

18,120

17,977

17,791

17,314

17,276

17,271

17,233

17,146

16,838

16,715

16,692

16,605

16,546

16,377

16,368

15,780

15,621

15,578

Dirk Nowitzkipartial career

3,429

3,180

3,133

3,076

3,054

3,032

2,788

2,735

2,596

2,240

2,224

2,211

Pau Gasolpartial career

2,098

2,018

1,909

1,828

1,750

1,697

1,684

1,669

1,668

1,637

1,634