How many points did Kareem Abdul Jabbar score during his NBA career?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis ‘Lew’ Alcindor on April 16, 1947) is an American retired basketball player, widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. During his 20-year professional career in the NBA, from 1969 to 1989, he scored the highest points total of any player in league history (38,387), in addition to winning a record six Most Valuable Player Awards and six NBA championships. He was known for his “skyhook” shot, which was famously difficult to block because it put his 7’2″ body between the basket and the ball. Abdul-Jabbar’s success began well before his professional career; in college at UCLA, he played on three championship teams, and his high school team won 71 consecutive games. . . . —— http://www.nba.com/history/player
In 20 NBA seasons Kareem Abdul Jabbar scored 38,387 points during the regular season and 5,762 in the playoffs plus an additional 251 in All Star Games. His 38,387 regular season points total is the most in NBA history. Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s career started in the 1969-1970 season with the Milwaukee Bucks where he played for six years. He was then traded to the Los Angeles Lakers where he played an additional 14 years. He played for NBA champion teams six times: 1971, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988. He was the NBA’s Most Valuable Player six times: 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, and 1980). He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995. Sources: http://www.nba.com/history/players/abduljabbar_stats.
