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The ten best NBA scorers in history
Do you want to find out the ranking of the best NBA scorers? You should know that throughout its history, the League has experienced several generations of truly fantastic players. The most striking case is that of Wilt Chamberlain, a long former Lakers still present today in this special ranking, in a basketball made of less frequent games as it happens in modern basketball. But that's not all.
So let's see who are the 10 best scorers in the league, trying to analyze their average points compared to the total games played.
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10) Moses Malone
27,409 points in 1329 games. Average: 20.62 points per game. He won the title in 1983 with Philadelphia 76ers. MVP of the regular season for three seasons. Twelve summons to the All Star Game. Selected among the fifty best players of the first fifty years of the NBA. He died prematurely in 2015 at the age of 60.
9) Carmelo Anthony
28,289 points in 1260 games. Average: 22.45 points per game. With the U.S. national team, of which he is the best scorer, he participated in four Olympics, winning the bronze medal in 2004 at the Athens Olympics and the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Games, the London 2012 Games and the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games. This makes him the most medaled basketball player in history.
8) Shaquille O'Neal
28,596 points in 1207 games. Average: 23.69 points per game. He played nineteen years in the NBA, winning three consecutive titles with the Los Angeles Lakers (resulting in all three finals MVP on all three occasions) and one with the Miami Heat (the first in franchise history). For two seasons (1995 and 2000) best scorer of the championship. He was named 15 times to the NBA All-Star Game.
7) Wilt Chamberlain
31,419 points in 1045 games. Average: 30.06 points per game.Chamberlain holds numerous NBA statistical records, including most points (100) and rebounds (55) in a single game and in a season. He is considered one of the best basketball players in history, if not the best overall because of his records.
6) Dirk Nowitzki
31,560 points in 1522 games. Average: 20.73 points per game. German, born in Würzburg Bavaria, he started playing basketball at the age of 13 on the local team. In 1998, it was Milwaukee 's No. 9 pick that traded him to Dallas. He played his entire NBA career with Dallas Mavericks with whom he won the title in 2011. He retired in 2019.
5) Michael Jordan
32,292 points in 1072 games. Average: 30.12 points per game. Proclaimed the best NBA player of all time, over the years he has gained a lot of fame on the court that has made him an icon of the sport. He won the NCAA university title, six NBA titles, two Olympics being part of the legendary Dream Team in Barcelona 1992. For 10 times best scorer of the championship plus countless individual titles. Today he is president of the Charlotte Hornets.
4) Kobe Bryant
33,643 points in 1346 games. Average: 24.99 points per game. 5 NBA titles, 2 Olympics, 18 appearances at theAll-Star Game. He started with basketball in Italy in Reggio Emilia where his father was a player; Los Angeles Lakers was his only team in the NBA. He has racked up countless individual records ending his career in 2016. He won an Academy Award for Producer in 2018. He tragically passed away on January 26, 2020 in a helicopter crash in which his daughter Gianna and seven other people also died.
3) Karl Malone
36,928 points in 1476 games. Average: 25.01 points per game. He played 18 years with Utah Jazz forming a formidable pair with John Stockton. The team played in two NBA Finals, both losing to Micheal JordanChicago Bulls. In his palmares 14 call-ups to theAll-Star Game, two MVPs award and two gold medals at the Olympics with the United States.
2) LeBron James
37,423 points in 1378 games. Average: 27.11 points per game. For many, he is Michel Jordan the title of best player of all time. He won 4 NBA rings with three different franchises, 18 times called up to theAll-Star Game, 4 times Most Valuable Player of the season, 2 Olympic medals. He is already the leading scorer in NBA history for total points in regular season and playoffs but NBA only ranks the regular season. He is 38 years old but still has a chance to overcome Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
1) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
38,387 points in 1560 games. Average: 24.60 points per game. He won three NCAA college titles with UCLA when it was still called Lew Alcindor. In the 20 seasons of his NBA career, he finished at 42, won 6 rings (1 with Milwaukee and 6 with Lakers), 19 call-ups to theAll-Star Game (out only in 1978, a season in which he missed 20 games) and an impressive number of individual records. Protagonist of the show time with Lakers, his highlight was the "sky hook ".
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19/04/2024
What is the most exhausting sport in the world?
According to a research promoted by ESPN, a US television station entirely dedicated to sport, the discipline that implies a greater overall effort of our body, thus being the most tiring ever (as well as one of those that involves the greatest risk of serious injuries), is boxing.
The study took into account, for each discipline analyzed, multiple parameters including strength, endurance, speed, agility and coordination required in the race, to be related to the average expenditure of energy, both physical and mental.