Take a trip down memory lane to relive some of the most memorable moments in NBA history as LeBron James prepares to break Kareem Abdul-career Jabbar’s scoring record either on Tuesday night or Thursday night in Los Angeles against the Bucks. Notable accomplishments that Abdul-Jabbar amassed throughout his six-year stint with the Bucks during the beginning of his career in the NBA.
Abdul-Jabbar earned a Rookie of the Year title, three MVPs (1971, 1972, 1974), and the 1971 NBA Finals MVP with the Bucks, where he scored 14,211 of his 38,387 points.
14,211 Bucks points.
Despite only playing six seasons, he set the franchise record for seven NBA teams (Toronto, LA Clippers, Charlotte, Memphis, Orlando, New York Knicks).
5,902 Bucks field goals
Bucks history’s best (Giannis is approaching 5,700). He shot 55% for the Bucks, while Giannis shoots 54%.
45 Bucks 40-point games
Abdul-Jabbar is one of just 144 Bucks players to score 40 or more through Feb. 6.
31%. After Abdul-Jabbar retired, the franchise had 45 more 40-point games until 2019 (Giannis on Jan. 5). Abdul-Jabbar has three postseason 40-point performances.
Brandon Jennings, Khris Middleton, Michael Redd. After Abdul-Jabbar departed, Michael Redd scored 57 on November 11, 2006.
Abdul-Jabbar scored 1,692 Bucks playoff points.
That’s with fewer possible games than current
seasons, averaging 30 PPG in 57 games. Giannis has 2,035 points in 76 games, the most ever (26.8 per game).
Giannis Antetokounmpo 15,706 points (through Feb. 6)
It’s 3,489 points short of Giannis’ midway mark.Kareem’s career 38,387. Giannis would need 117 games to get halfway if he averaged 30 points each game.
Antetokounmpo has scored 40 or more points in eight different postseason games.
In this regard, he does have a competitive advantage over Abdul-Jabbar (who has three). The remaining four are Ray Allen, Michael Redd, Terry Cummings, and
Khris Middleton) had a single 40-point playoff game. Giannis had the lone 50-pointer, scored in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to capture the 2021 title.
In 1971–72, the Bucks beat the Lakers and ended the Lakers’ record-setting 33-game winning run.
Kareem scored 39 points and grabbed 20 rebounds to lead the Bucks beat the Lakers and end the Lakers’ record-setting winning run.
on Jan. 9, 1972, 120-104. In the beginning of the winning run, the Lakers were also victorious against the Bucks, and they went on to win the Western Conference Finals against the Bucks, beating them 4-2, despite allowing 33.7 points per game in that series.from Abdul-Jabbar. On December 15, 2015, the Bucks were the team who put a stop to the second-longest winning streak in NBA history when they defeated Golden State by a score of 108-95. This victory put an end to the Warriors’ 28-win start to the year.
In his first season with the Bucks, Abdul-Jabbar had 16 of the top 20 scoring efforts by a rookie.
To be more specific, it’s 16 out of the top 19, and it’s part of his incredible Rookie of the Year campaign.
In his first season with the Bucks, Abdul-Jabbar had 16 of the top 20 scoring efforts by a rookie.
To be more specific, it’s 16 out of the top 19, and it’s part of his incredible Rookie of the Year campaign.
Abdul-Jabbar has made one three-point shot in his career.
It may come as a surprise to find that Abdul-Jabbar never won a championship despite the fact that he made it seem so simple when playing for the Lakers in the 1986–1987 season.
greater number of hits. The remaining 17 tries, made throughout the last decade of his career after the NBA adopted the 3-point line in 1979–80, were all unsuccessful. It wasn’t even on the table for the first 50 years of his career.
Even though 482 of Giannis’s 3s have gone in, fans still cringe every time he draws up to take one.
Kareem Abdul-skyhook Jabbar’s in the final seconds of double overtime in the 1974 NBA Finals.
What happened to the coin that was flipped in 1969 between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Phoenix Suns?
Kareem’s move to the Lakers in 1975 was part of a deal that sent the jerseys of two Bucks players into the Hall of Fame.
Abdul-Jabbar wanted to be traded after the 1974–75 season.
The Bucks traded him to the Lakers for Junior Bridgeman, Brian Winters, Dave Meyers, and Elmore Smith. The Lakers were a team from the west coast. Even though it’s a painful part of Milwaukee’s sports history, the trade was a good one.
Bridgeman usually came off the bench, but he was often one of the best sixth men in the league. He also played in more Bucks games (711) than anyone else, but his jersey was retired in 1988, which was a year and a half before Abdul-last Jabbar’s game.Antetokounmpo will probably play his 700th game of his career against the Lakers. If that happens, he will be close to passing Kobe Bryant as the player who has played the most games.
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Abdul-Jabbar won 3 Most Valuable Player awards with the Bucks.
After winning with the Bucks in 1971, 1972, and 1974, he also won three times with the Lakers.
He has been to 6 All-Star games with the Bucks.
He was chosen for the all-star game every year he played for Milwaukee, which was a franchise record until Antetokounmpo was chosen for his seventh this year.
