NBA History: All-Time Scoring Average Leaders By Position

Small Forward: Kevin Durant

Years Active: 2007 to Present
Team(s): Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors
Career Scoring Average: 27.40 PPG
Career Points Scored: 17,566

Kevin Durant is the only active player whose name surfaces on this list. It goes to show just how dominant a scorer Durant truly is, and it’s not just his career scoring average that should be garnering a golf clap.

Durant has four career scoring titles, which puts him in a class with some of the greatest scorers in NBA history.

The only players in NBA history who have won at least four scoring titles are Wilt Chamberlain, Durant, George Gervin, Allen Iverson, and Michael Jordan. Four of those five players are already in the Hall of Fame.

Durant has already booked his ticket with four scoring titles, an MVP award, and five All-NBA First Team nods—accolades shared by just he, Chamberlain, and Jordan.

Durant is still an active player, but he’s nine seasons and 641 games into his NBA career. That gives him a sample size that’s more than big enough for him to be listed on this list of legends.

If Durant were excluded, then Elgin Baylor would take the small forward spot with a career average of 27.36 points per game.

On the volume front, LeBron James leads all small forwards with 26,833 career points scored. Durant could catch him by career’s end.