5 NBA players who could join the exclusive 50/40/90 club in 2023–24

Final season, Kevin Durant had an injury-riddled season, taking part in in simply 47 common season video games. Regardless of this, Durant did put up the first 55/40/90 season in NBA history, together with his 56.0/40.4/91.9 capturing splits. This additionally marked his second look on the distinguished 50/40/90 membership, together with his first coming a decade earlier when he was a 24-year-old budding celebrity with the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder. Within the final decade, Steph Curry, Malcolm Brogdon, and Kyrie Irving additionally joined the membership, begging the query, which NBA participant might be part of the 50/40/90 club in 2023-2024?

To assume logically about who may very well be the subsequent participant to hit 50/40/90, we are going to first search for any historic traits and see which gamers flirted with 50/40/90 final season. Oddly sufficient, age has performed little to no function in gamers who’ve had 50, 40, or 90 seasons.

Gamers like Mark Value and Kevin Durant joined the membership at age 24. Gamers like Curry (27), Brogdon (26), Irving (28), Dirk Nowitzki (28), and Reggie Miller (28) all joined the membership nearer to or in the midst of their primes. Then there have been Larry Chicken and Steve Nash, who didn’t be part of the 50/40/90 membership till they had been of their 30s.

It does appear that traditionally, it’s high-level gamers who’re reaching 50, 40, or 90, with nearly all of the membership being all-time nice gamers. The 2 gamers that doubtlessly stand out as not becoming this mildew are Value and Brogdon. Nevertheless, Value was extremely underrated and nonetheless averaged 18.9 PPG and eight.4 APG, each of which led his workforce, throughout his 50/40/90 12 months.

Brogdon is the lone participant who was not a prime two participant on his workforce, averaging 15.6 PPG, 4.5 RPG, and three.2 APG on a stacked Milwaukee Bucks workforce the place he was the 4th scoring choice throughout his 50/40/90 season.

As for gamers who flirted with 50/40/90 in 2022–2023, there have been 13 qualifying gamers who shot 47.5%+ from the sector, 37.5%+ from three, and 86.0% on FTs. After eradicating the gamers who had already joined the membership, 9 names remained. From this pool, these are the 5 gamers who’ve the perfect likelihood at 50/40/90 subsequent season!