How will the NBA change by 2050? Wemby usurps both LeBron James and Michael Jordan, plus more bold predictions
During the 2000-01 season, the Average NBA team attempted 13.7 3 points per game. In the 2024-25 campaign, this figure increased to 37.6. No center was on average even four assists 25 years ago. Nikola Jokić has just reached both figures. Hand verification was authorized and the defense of the areas was not. It has since returned. Only one international player won an MVP prize in the 20th century. We are now in the middle of a seven -year sequence of only having international MVPs. We have a tournament in season. We have a game tournament. It is two more tournaments that we had at the turn of the century.
All this to say that basketball is a constantly evolving sport. The sport we had 25 years ago is very different from the one we have now. And it will inevitably be true to move forward. The NBA in 2050 will not necessarily look like the NBA in 2025. Sport will change. The way we talk about it will change.
So, while we put an arc on our race Quarter Century contentWe will try to understand what type of changes happens. Below, the staff of CBS Sports NBA each made a daring prediction on the NBA in 2050.
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Victor Wembanyama will be considered the greatest player in the history of the NBA
We have never had a player with the combination of physical features by Victor Wembanyama and developed skills. How many 3 -inch 7 -inch centers have ever been able to put the ball on the offense bridge and go to the defensive perimeter? Or block five shots and do five 3s in a single match? Michael Jordan and LeBron James dominated their eras in the figurative. Wembanyama will literally do it. While these are the best versions of archetypes of players that we had seen before, Wembanyama is the next step in the evolution of sport, a player that we have never seen before and we may need decades to review. He will win practically all the trophies as a defensive player of the year that he is eligible to win. His spurs are also well placed to fight the long term in the era of the apron like any team of the League. He still has rough edges to sand his game, and his teammates are young and also learn, but once he begins to accumulate trophies in the next year or two, he will not stop until he has succeeded in a bigger collection than any player in the history of sport. – Sam Quinn
The drought of the Philly basketball title ends … but not the 76ers’
By 2050, the long drought of the title of Philadelphia will be over and the city will finally have another professional basketball championship – Gracious The next WNBA team. The 76ers have not won a championship since 1983, and they have not gone to the conference final since 2001. The WNBA team of Philly will deliver during its first two decades. – John Gonzalez
A big name will be part of the game scandal
By 2050, the NBA will have to distant sports betting after a massive scandal involving a high -level NBA player. The number of sports betting scandals that occurred in the NBA just last year were the eyebrows. One has the impression that we are heading for a path where ultimately a more notable star will be caught in this area. – Jasmyn Wimbish
The 2015-16 season of Curry will governed master
In 2050, the 2015-16 season of Stephen Curry will always be the biggest campaign that we have ever seen. Curry collected an average of 30.1 points, 6.7 assists, 2.1 interceptions, made five 3s per game and had a shooting of 50.4 / 45.4 / 90.8 while he unanimously won the MVP honors in 2016 in a team of 73-9. Curry has changed the game, but no player will be able to duplicate or exceed this season for the next 25 years. – Brad Botkin
