CL.A. LakersNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1995 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1972

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

7'2" · 225 lbsBorn April 16, 19471970–1989College: UCLADraft: 1969 · Rd 1, Pick 1 · Milwaukee Bucks

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

23.0

1971, 1972, 1980 avg

Career VAL

318.6

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

239.8

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

22% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

20 seasons · peak 24.6 in 1972 · league-best seasons: 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1980

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 99.9th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into 2 franchise monuments

#2 · Milwaukee Bucks107.0 legacy · 30% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence #3 · Los Angeles Lakers249.8 legacy · 70% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 7 boards

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1970	22–23	MIL	82	—	43.1	51.8%	—	65.3%	14.5	4.1	—	—	28.8	12.8
1971	23–24	MIL	82	—	40.1	57.7%	—	69.0%	16.0	3.3	—	—	31.7	21.7
1972	24–25	MIL	81	—	44.2	57.4%	—	68.9%	16.6	4.6	—	—	34.8	24.6
1973	25–26	MIL	76	—	42.8	55.4%	—	71.3%	16.1	5.0	—	—	30.2	19.2
1974	26–27	MIL	81	—	43.8	53.9%	—	70.2%	14.5	4.8	1.4	3.5	27.0	17.6
1975	27–28	MIL	65	—	42.3	51.3%	—	76.3%	14.0	4.1	1.0	3.3	30.0	13.2
1976	28–29	LAL	82	82	41.2	52.9%	—	70.3%	16.9	5.0	1.5	4.1	27.7	19.5
1977	29–30	LAL	82	82	36.8	57.9%	—	70.1%	13.3	3.9	1.2	3.2	26.2	21.6
1978	30–31	LAL	62	—	36.5	55.0%	—	78.3%	12.9	4.3	1.7	3.0	25.8	15
1979	31–32	LAL	80	—	39.5	57.7%	—	73.6%	12.8	5.4	1.0	4.0	23.8	19.8
1980	32–33	LAL	82	—	38.3	60.4%	0.0%	76.5%	10.8	4.5	1.0	3.4	24.8	22.7
1981	33–34	LAL	80	—	37.2	57.4%	0.0%	76.6%	10.3	3.4	0.7	2.9	26.2	18.6
1982	34–35	LAL	76	76	35.2	57.9%	0.0%	70.6%	8.7	3.0	0.8	2.7	23.9	14.9
1983	35–36	LAL	79	79	32.3	58.8%	0.0%	74.9%	7.5	2.5	0.8	2.2	21.8	16.1
1984	36–37	LAL	80	80	32.8	57.8%	0.0%	72.3%	7.3	2.6	0.7	1.8	21.5	13.2
1985	37–38	LAL	79	79	33.3	59.9%	0.0%	73.2%	7.9	3.2	0.8	2.1	22.0	16
1986	38–39	LAL	79	79	33.3	56.4%	0.0%	76.5%	6.1	3.5	0.8	1.6	23.4	14.7
1987	39–40	LAL	78	78	31.3	56.4%	33.3%	71.4%	6.7	2.6	0.6	1.2	17.5	9.9
1988	40–41	LAL	80	80	28.9	53.2%	0.0%	76.2%	6.0	1.7	0.6	1.2	14.6	6.3
1989	41–42	LAL	74	74	22.9	47.5%	0.0%	73.9%	4.5	1.0	0.5	1.1	10.1	1.2

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Career arc · VAL by season

All-time standings

Etched into 2 franchise monuments

On the boards· Appears on 7 boards

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

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Era-Adjusted Standing

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