#3 Michael Jordan
MVPs - 5 | NBA Championships - 6 | Scoring Titles - 10
Regarded as the greatest player of all time, Michael Jordan dominated the league for years. He won an NBA record ten total scoring titles and won seven straight at one point before he retired for the first time. From 1987 to 1993, he led the league in scoring every season, posting averages of 37.1, 35.0, 32.5, 33.6, 31.5, 30.1, and 32.6 points per game. He then came back from retirement in 1995 and led the league in scoring for another three years from 1996 to 1998 with averages of 30.4, 29.6, 28.7 points per game. His Airness is the oldest scoring champion in the NBA, having won his last at the age of 35.
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Michael Jordan won his first NBA championship in 1991 after beating the Magic Johnson-led LA Lakers in the Finals 4-1. That kicked off a three-peat as the Chicago Bulls won two more in 1992 and 1993 beating Clyde Drexler's Portland Trail Blazers and Charles Barkley's Phoenix Suns, respectively. After MJ came back from retirement, the Bulls enjoyed another three-peat from 1996 to 1998. He was the Finals MVP during all six title wins.
Michael Jordan is a five-time recipient of the MVP award. He won the award in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1998.
#4 Stephen Curry
MVPs - 2 | NBA Championships - 3 | Scoring Titles - 2
The greatest shooter this game has ever seen, Stephen Curry changed the landscape of professional basketball this century. His long-distance marksmanship wowed, bamboozled the league and revolutionized the way NBA looks at offense and defense forever.
Curry led the Golden State Warriors to the 2015 NBA title after winning his first league MVP. They defeated the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers in 6 games but many speculated that they only won because Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were injured.
Curry and the Warriors were so motivated to prove everyone wrong that they started the 2016 season all guns blazing. They won 25 straight to begin the season and set an NBA record of 73 wins and 9 losses. Stephen Curry then won his second straight MVP and was named the only unanimous MVP in NBA history. He also led the league in scoring with 30 points per game at an absurd 50-40-90 shooting split.
Four-time scoring champion Kevin Durant joined the 73-9 Warriors in the offseason and they dominated the league for three straight years. Curry won his second and third championships in 2017 and 2018.
Curry led the league in scoring for the second time in 2021 when he averaged 32 points per game. He broke records en route to being an MVP finalist and finished third behind Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid.
Curry was unreal last season. He took the throne of "Mr. Warrior" after becoming the franchise's all-time leading scorer and assist leader. He dropped 96 threes in the calendar month of April which broke the previous NBA record by a whopping 14. At 33 years old, Curry is the oldest scoring champion since Jordan.
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