Bit of a boxing lesson real quick. For most of boxing’s history, there have been multiple entities that have handed out championship belts. An “undisputed champ” occurs when one boxer holds all the belts for his weight class at the same time. I’m using a bit of that logic here for scoring champs.

For most* of NBA history, we just consider the scoring champ to be the player that led the league in points per game for the regular season. What I’m doing is adding 3 additional belts:

Regular Season Total Points

Playoff Points Per Game

Playoff Total Points

Regular Season PPG is understandably the default scoring champ, but leading the league in any of those other categories gives a player a legitimate, albeit smaller, claim to being the best scorer that season.

With all that said, here is every instance where a player led the league in all 4 categories, which gives them the undisputed scoring championship belt that season:

Season	Player
2013-14	Kevin Durant
1999-00	Shaquille O’Neal
1997-98	Michael Jordan
1996-97	Michael Jordan
1995-96	Michael Jordan
1992-93	Michael Jordan
1991-92	Michael Jordan
1990-91	Michael Jordan
1989-90	Michael Jordan
1988-89	Michael Jordan
1981-82	George Gervin
1966-67	Rick Barry
1963-64	Wilt Chamberlain
1949-50	George Mikan
1948-49	George Mikan
1946-47	Joe Fulks

There were 15 seasons where a player was just 1 best away from being the undisputed scoring champ:

Season	RS PPG Leader	RS Total Points Leader	Playoff PPG Leader	Playoff Total Points Leader
2023-24	Luka Doncic	Luka Doncic	Joel Embiid	Luka Doncic
2017-18	James Harden	LeBron James	LeBron James	LeBron James
2016-17	Russell Westbrook	Russell Westbrook	Russell Westbrook	LeBron James
2010-11	Kevin Durant	Kevin Durant	Kevin Durant	Dirk Nowitzki
2007-08	LeBron James	Kobe Bryant	Kobe Bryant	Kobe Bryant
2006-07	Kobe Bryant	Kobe Bryant	Kobe Bryant	LeBron James
2004-05	Allen Iverson	Allen Iverson	Allen Iverson	Tim Duncan
1986-87	Michael Jordan	Michael Jordan	Michael Jordan	Larry Bird
1979-80	George Gervin	George Gervin	George Gervin	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1978-79	George Gervin	George Gervin	George Gervin	Gus Williams
1977-78	George Gervin	George Gervin	George Gervin	Elvin Hayes
1974-75	Bob McAdoo	Bob McAdoo	Bob McAdoo	Rick Barry
1971-72	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Walt Frazier
1950-51	George Mikan	George Mikan	George Mikan	Arnie Risen
1947-48	Joe Fulks	Max Zaslofsky	Joe Fulks	Joe Fulks

*note from 1947-69, the scoring champ was awarded to the player with the most total points in the regular season.