Some key takeaways: no one is breaking Wilt's points records and rebounding records are unlikely to fall either. However, we are living in age of high efficiency seen by good shooting and player efficiency metrics.
I also made the viz more interactive than the NYT version- you can type in the name of a player and he will show up as a star on the viz if he is one of the top 250 all time leaders in the statistic .Doing this you can see how dominant stars like Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson were in their prime. I also added a trend line and annotations.
Purple points were records at the time they were set.
CLICK HERE TO INTERACT WITH THE VIZ
Enjoy and you can see the full code for the scraper/data munging on Github here.