Keep Shooting

The average NBA player scores around 6 points per game. The best players each year average closer to 25 points per game or more.

This season, the current scoring leaders are Luka Doncic of the LA Lakers at 32.6 points per game and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at 31.9.

Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest player ever, is the NBA’s all-time scoring average leader at 30.12 points per game, just slightly ahead of Wilt Chamberlain at 30.07.

It was 54 years ago today when Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain scored a record 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors as they defeated the New York Knicks 169 to 147. He made 36 of his 63 field goal attempts and added 28 more points from the free throw line.

Can you imagine? One hundred points in a single game.

Talk about feeling it.

Even though he missed 27 shots from the floor, he kept shooting. He earned 32 trips to the free throw line and made 28 of them. Someone might ask, “How can one person score 100 points?”

Maybe the simple answer is this:

Get to 98 and keep shooting.

Will You Keep Shooting When You’re Hot?

On those days when you make 10 phone calls, why not make 11?

Send out 5 handwritten notes? Keep shooting and send one more.

Stopping by to see a client? Swing by one more on the way home.

Sure, sometimes your shots will miss.

Keep shooting anyway.

That’s what the all-time greats do.