NBA brands 2025-26: Who will challenge statistics?
Important brands to consider before the 2025-26 season, including historical seasons of LeBron James and Nikola Jokic.
The NBA 2025-26 season The October 21 and we anticipate another potentially historical campaign full of emerging stars, great moments and records overcome.
While the League prepares for its 80th season, there are many milestones within the reach of several stars. In particular, veterans like LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Nikola Jokic They can climb positions in the classification tables and continue recording their name in the history of the league. But what other incredible achievements should you take into account this season, and how far are these superstars of achieving them?
We analyze historical statistics to take into account in the 2025-26 season, since some stars consolidate their leadership in historical statistics, while others join a family group in Top 10.
Research contributed by Michael Schwartz by AM850 Research.
LeBron is about to reach new heights
In December 2024, James officially became the First NBA player to play as a teenager and 40 years. He and his son, Bronny James, They also became the first father-son couple to play together in the league after Los Angeles Lakers They will select Bronny in the NBA Draft of 2024. Now, LeBron, the top historical scorer, will seek to further raise the bar.
James surpassed a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The maximum historical scorer in 2023, but this season, can overcome Abdul-Jabbar as the maximum historical scorer in field shots. James is 350 field shots of the Abdul-Jabbar record (15,837), and “El Rey”, who has scored at least 400 field shots every season (651 in 2024-25), probably overcome the legendary Lakers player again.
At the beginning of his 23rd season, James will surpass Vince Carter in the largest number of seasons of his career, and if he stays healthy, he is only 50 games to overcome Robert Parish as the maximum in games played of the regular season in the history of the NBA. James can also overcome Reggie Miller In the sixth position of the historic triple list on the opening night of the 2025-26 season, when the Lakers face the Golden State Warriors, since it is just two games of the brand.
The veterans continue with their rise as scorers of all time
Durant was one of the most important names in motion this preseason, after being transferred from the Phoenix Suns to the Houston Rockets in early July as part of a historic agreement between seven teams. In his seventeenth season and in his fifth team of the NBA, Durant is emerging as one of the players who have reached the most milestones, since he is 849 points to overcome Wilt Chamberlain in the seventh place in the historical list of NBA scorers. Except for injury, Durant could reach this brand, since it has exceeded 1,000 points in all seasons in which it has played more than 35 games.
Durant’s ex -partner in the Oklahoma City Thunder, James Harden, can also ascend on the list of maximum scorers of all time. ‘The beard’ is only 603 points to overcome Carmelo Anthony in the tenth place 910 to overcome Shaquille O’Neal in the ninth. Harden has scored at least 910 points in each season of his career, except as a rookie, and doubled that mark last season while playing in one of the oldest teams in the League, the Clippers.
Assistance leaders amount
Harden has a greater challenge the category of assists, since he is missing 746 to ascend a position in the historical list, currently in 13th position. He will have to overcome Andre Miller (8,524), Gary Payton (8,966) and Isiah Thomas (9,061) to reach Top 10, and has only reached the 746 mark in the same season twice in his career. It seems more likely to ascend to position 12, surpassing Miller, this season.
Harden’s teammate, Russell Westbrook, currently occupies the eighth place in the historic assistance list (9,925) and could become the eighth player in the NBA history to reach 10,000 this season. If you find a home this season, Westbrook could also ascend on this list, surpassing Magic Johnson, Mark Jackson and Steve Nash in fifth place. It is only 411 assists to join Chris Paul and LeBron James in the top five: he had 457 total assists last season with the Nuggets.
But Westbrook will aim at a moving goal, since James will also ascend in the historical list of assists. He is only 508 to overcome Jason Kidd in third place, and has reached that brand in each of his last two seasons, so that milestone is expected to reach this season if he avoids an injury.
From Saturn
Stephen Curry should be ‘cooking’ in his 17th. Season with the Warriors. Curry is 292 triples (between regular season and playoffs) to become the first player with 5,000 triples. But we may not see this brand until later in the season, since it scored 311 triples only in the regular season last season and 357 the previous one.
The former Splash Brother of Curry, Klay Thompson, is 108 triples to overcome Damian Lillard in the fourth place on the historic triple list. With Lillard out for the rest of the season, Thompson can probably achieve this brand if he remains healthy, since he scored 216 in his first full season with the Dallas Mavericks. He could rise to third place, but he would need 277 triples to overcome Ray Allen, a brand that only reached once in his career (2022-23).
The health of Paul George and the Philadelphia 76ers is also a great unknown this season. George, who now enters his sixteenth season, is 102 triples to overcome Kyle Korver in the eighth place of the historical list. In his last season with the clippers, when he was completely recovered, he scored 243 triples during the regular season and could repeat it if he manages to stay on the court.
Triple-Dock conquerors
Last season, Jokic, three times MVP, established an NBA record by registering the first triple-double of the League (30-20-20), in addition to leading the league with 34 total triples-dubles in the season. This season, the Nuggets Triple-Dock Master is only 18 to overcome Oscar Robertson (181) as the second player with more triple-doubles in the history of the NBA, behind Russell Westbrook (203). While the Nuggets try to maximize their championship window, Jokic is likely to reach that brand and become the second player in the NBA history to reach 200.
The superstar of the Lakers, Luka Doncic, can also continue to climb on the list. Doncic is 18 triples-doubles becoming the seventh player with 100 triples-doubles in his career. Doncic, 26, is also 26 triples-doubles to overcome his former Mavericks, Jason Kidd, in the sixth place in the historical list.
Coaches in the race
The praise do not usually come in the form of records, but two veteran coaches, Doc Rivers and Rick Carlisle, can make history this season in the list of victories of all time. Rivers, which starts its 26th. Season as a NBA coach, is just 14 victories to overcome George Karl in the sixth place in the list. But after the Milwaukee Bucks transferred Damian Lillard back to the Portland Trail Blazers, while the team seeks to maximize its window to the championship with Giannis Antetokounmpo, it is not clear how this season will take place. If the Bucks exceed expectations, Rivers is 49 victories to overcome Pat Riley in fifth place 60 to overcome Jerry Sloan in the room.
Carlisle, newcomer from the finals, is now 50 victories to overcome Rick Adelman and enter the top 10 of the list of all time.
