MVPs: 6. Finals MVPs: 2. All-NBA 1st Team: 10. 2nd Team: 5. All Star: 19. MVP: 0.
Defensive POY: 0. All-Defense 1st Team: 5. 2nd Team: 6.
#15 Career PPG. #1 Career Points. #24 Career RPG. #3 Career Rebounds. #8 Career BPG. #3 Career Blocks.
Points Champ: 2x. Rebounds Champ: 1. Blocks Champ: 4. eFG% Champ: 1.
Career Averages: 25 PPG/ 11 RPG/ 4 APG/ .9 SPG/ 2.6 BPG/ .559 eFG%/ .721 FT%.
Best Season: 35/ 17/ 5/ .574/ .689 (1971-72).
Postseason Averages: 24 PPG/ 10 RPG/ 3 APG/ 1 SPG/ 2.4 BPG/ .430 eFG%/ .603 FT%.
Best Postseason: 32/ 16/ 5/ 1.3/ 2.4/ .557/ .736 (1974).
Championships: 6 (#1 player 2x, #2 player 2x, #4 player 1x, #5 player 1x). Runner-ups: 4 (#1 player 1x, #2 player 2x, #8 player 1x).
Why he's below Bill Russell: Kareem not only had a long Finals drought during his prime; he completely missed the playoffs in 1975 and 1976 when he was 28 and 29 years old. Kareem even had an all-star quality teammate in both seasons and still finished below .500.
Why he's above the rest: There isn’t much to add that Kareem's resume doesn't already say. But how about that his number of top-5 MVP seasons matched the number of seasons in Michael Jordan’s entire career? Or that he won Finals MVPs 14 seasons apart? When the dunk was taken away from him in college, he used it to learn arguably the most unstoppable shot in NBA history, the sky hook. Kareem was the evolution of the center position, taking the size and athleticism that Wilt and Russell had and adding more skill than either of them ever needed to learn.
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