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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stats, teams and career impact

#1 all-timeCareer averages · 24.6 PPG · 11.2 RPG · 3.6 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Center
Final NBA team: Los Angeles Lakers
Height / weight: 7 ft 2 in (218 cm) · 225 lb (102 kg)
Born: April 16, 1947 (79 yrs old)
College: UCLA
NBA seasons: 20 seasons · 1969–70 to 1988–89

Career or season view

Career summaryKareem Abdul-Jabbar was a center who played 20 NBA seasons, from 1969–70 through 1988–89.

Career PPG: 24.6
Career RPG: 11.2
Career APG: 3.6; #1 in 9 seasons; #1 all-time

Peak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Career overview

Why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ranks #1 all time

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ranks #1 all time. He finished #1 in 9 seasons and in the top five 13 times, giving him an exceptional peak. His full-career value ranks #2 across 20 seasons. Career Impact Rank averages his best three, five, and ten season ranks, with the most weight on his peak.

Peak#1 in 1970–71

Best league finish

Sustained excellence9 seasons at #1

13 top-five · 14 top-ten finishes

Career breadth20 seasons

1,560 games · Career Value Rank #2

NBA honors19× All-Star · 6× MVP · 15× All-NBA · 11× All-Defense · ROYContext only; honors are not model inputs.

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers
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Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 55.9%FG%
Three-point: 5.6%3P%
Free throw: 72.1%FT%

1,560 career games · 57,446 minutes

Sources and updateConventional stats and measurements: Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 13, 2026. hussEyquation ranking data through 2025–26. Life dates: Wikidata; conflicting dates checked against Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 17, 2026.

Traditional box score

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stats by season

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Box impact is an estimate in points per 100 possessions, not the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Zero is league average; higher is better. Rate rank is a league place: No. 1 is best.

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				pts/100 · higher is better
1988–89	10.1	4.5	1.0	-2.68	LAL	74	74	22.9	47.5%	0.0%	73.9%	#206	-24.1
1987–88	14.6	6.0	1.7	-0.43	LAL	80	80	28.9	53.2%	0.0%	76.2%	#118	74.6
1986–87	17.5	6.7	2.6	+0.90	LAL	78	78	31.3	56.4%	33.3%	71.4%	#59	149.9
1985–86	23.4	6.1	3.5	+4.21	LAL	79	79	33.3	56.4%	0.0%	76.5%	#11	349.0
1984–85	22.0	7.9	3.2	+4.32	LAL	79	79	33.3	59.9%	0.0%	73.2%	#12	357.6
1983–84	21.5	7.3	2.6	+2.93	LAL	80	80	32.8	57.8%	0.0%	72.3%	#19	279.1
1982–83	21.8	7.5	2.5	+4.60	LAL	79	79	32.3	58.8%	0.0%	74.9%	#7	364.6
1981–82	23.9	8.7	3.0	+5.47	LAL	76	76	35.2	57.9%	0.0%	70.6%	#5	429.8
1980–81	26.2	10.3	3.4	+6.72	LAL	80	0	37.2	57.4%	0.0%	76.6%	#3	555.2
1979–80	24.8	10.8	4.5	+6.89	LAL	82	0	38.3	60.4%	0.0%	76.5%	#2	606.0
1978–79	23.8	12.8	5.4	+7.87	LAL	80	0	39.5	57.7%	—	73.6%	#1	687.1
1977–78	25.8	12.9	4.3	+9.72	LAL	62	0	36.5	55.0%	—	78.3%	#1	586.9
1976–77	26.2	13.3	3.9	+10.17	LAL	82	82	36.8	57.9%	—	70.1%	#1	800.7
1975–76	27.7	16.9	5.0	+9.44	LAL	82	82	41.2	52.9%	—	70.3%	#1	869.9
1974–75	30.0	14.0	4.1	+8.01	MIL	65	0	42.3	51.3%	—	76.3%	#1	584.7
1973–74	27.0	14.5	4.8	+7.49	MIL	81	0	43.8	53.9%	—	70.2%	#1	739.3
1972–73	30.2	16.1	5.0	+8.64	MIL	76	0	42.8	55.4%	—	71.3%	#1	781.1
1971–72	34.8	16.6	4.6	+8.31	MIL	81	0	44.2	57.4%	—	68.9%	#1	855.5
1970–71	31.7	16.0	3.3	+6.77	MIL	82	0	40.1	57.7%	—	69.0%	#1	681.0
1969–70	28.8	14.5	4.1	+4.63	MIL	82	0	43.1	51.8%	—	65.3%	#2	565.5
Career	24.6	11.2	3.6	—	LAL/MIL	1560	—	36.8	55.9%	5.6%	72.1%	—	—

Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.

Film evidence

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar highlights

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Signature-skill retrospective

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 70 sky hooks

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What these measures mean

Box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average, from the historical box-score model. Zero is league average; higher is better. Historical defense estimates are included where labeled. This is not the live model's lineup-adjusted estimate.
Impact Rate: A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession.
Impact estimate: The season model's final estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, before conversion to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. It includes lineup evidence where available. Zero is league average; higher is better.
Impact Rate rank: The player's place among qualified players in that season's Impact Rate ranking. No. 1 is best. This is a rank, not an impact score.
Value contribution / Season Value: Completed seasons use a fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. The live season instead uses Season Value, combining that season's impact with workload.
Career Impact Rank: An all-time rank weighted toward the player's best three, five, and ten seasons.

Career Impact Rank#1

1.0 composite · lower is better

Best 5#1

1.0 average league finish

Career Value Rank#2

10,294 total value

Impact Rate: 0–100 score within one season. Higher is better.
Box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, from the historical model. Zero is average; higher is better.

Career standing

How Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons9

Best in the league

Top-five seasons13

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons14

Upper-tier finishes

Top-10 Impact Margin49.6

Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons

Career Composite Score1.0

Best 3, Best 5, and Best 10 average league finishes receive 50%, 30%, and 20% window weights. Missing seasons receive a replacement finish just below the player's typical qualified field. Lower is better.

Best 3 effective weight: 74%
Missing-season finish: 241.5
Qualified seasons: 20
All-time rank: #1

Strongest seasons

Every season

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

More advanced statsAge, minutes, impact, rank, value and data coverage

					pts/100 · higher is better	0–100 · higher is better
1988–89Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	41	74	1,695	-2.68	22.1	#206	-24.1	15th	Broad
1987–88Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	40	80	2,308	-0.43	53.2	#118	74.6	64th	Broad
1986–87Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	39	78	2,441	+0.90	77.3	#59	149.9	79th	Broad
1985–86Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	38	79	2,629	+4.21	96.1	#11	349.0	96th	Broad
1984–85Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	37	79	2,630	+4.32	95.7	#12	357.6	97th	Broad
1983–84Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	36	80	2,622	+2.93	92.7	#19	279.1	93rd	Broad
1982–83Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	35	79	2,554	+4.60	97.6	#7	364.6	97th	Broad
1981–82Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	34	76	2,677	+5.47	98.4	#5	429.8	98th	Broad
1980–81Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	33	80	2,976	+6.72	99.2	#3	555.2	100th	Broad
1979–80Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	32	82	3,143	+6.89	99.6	#2	606.0	100th	Broad
1978–79Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	31	80	3,157	+7.87	100.0	#1	687.1	100th	Broad
1977–78Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	30	62	2,265	+9.72	100.0	#1	586.9	100th	Broad
1976–77Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	29	82	3,016	+10.17	100.0	#1	800.7	100th	Broad
1975–76Historical Defense Estimate	LAL	28	82	3,379	+9.44	100.0	#1	869.9	100th	Broad
1974–75Historical Defense Estimate	MIL	27	65	2,747	+8.01	100.0	#1	584.7	100th	Broad
1973–74Historical Defense Estimate	MIL	26	81	3,548	+7.49	100.0	#1	739.3	100th	Broad
1972–73Historical Defense Estimate	MIL	25	76	3,254	+8.64	100.0	#1	781.1	100th	Modeled
1971–72Historical Defense Estimate	MIL	24	81	3,583	+8.31	100.0	#1	855.5	100th	Modeled
1970–71Historical Defense Estimate	MIL	23	82	3,288	+6.77	100.0	#1	681.0	100th	Modeled
1969–70Historical Defense Estimate	MIL	22	82	3,534	+4.63	99.3	#2	565.5	99th	Modeled

Career movement

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's box impact by season

Peak box impact +10.17 points per 100 possessions in 1976–77 · 20 seasons · 57,446 minutes

Box impact estimates points per 100 possessions above each season's league average. Zero is average; higher is better. Rank labels show Impact Rate league places, not ranks on this chart's box-impact scale.

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Career comparison

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Box impactEra-adjusted points per 100 possessions above league average · higher is better · dashed marker means the player did not play

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kevin Garnett era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Kevin Garnett
1	4.6	2.0
2	6.8	3.3
3	8.3	4.9
4	8.6	7.3
5	7.5	7.0
6	8.0	6.8
7	9.4	6.7
8	10.2	8.9
9	9.7	10.4
10	7.9	10.2
11	6.9	9.0
12	6.7	6.5
13	5.5	6.7
14	4.6	3.9
15	2.9	3.3
16	4.3	4.1
17	4.2	4.3
18	0.9	2.6
19	-0.4	-1.0
20	-2.7	1.2
21	Did not play	1.0

NBA season number

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How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played; completed player-profile rows instead show each season's fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. Career Impact Rank rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Career shooting

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stats by season

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar highlights

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 70 sky hooks

How Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ranks all time

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar advanced stats by season

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's box impact by season

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The case for Kareem at No. 1

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