Career atlas

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 20 seasons, 2 teams, 1 competitions

From 1969-70 to 1988-89

Confidence: highData through: 1969-70 → 1988-89

The question

How did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar evolve?

The evidence

When it really changed

17.5 points per gamecompared against: 23.4 points per game (-5.9 · -25 %) · Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1985-86

The stints

One row per stint: league, team and years. Chronological order; when two overlap, the origin comes first.

MIL1969-70 → 1974-75
NBA · 6 seasons
LAL1975-76 → 1988-89
NBA · 14 seasons

When it really changed

Not every season is a change. Only jumps above the threshold declared below appear here. «Changed» means a jump larger than 4.1 points per game. It is a declared threshold, not a model.

1972-73-4.6 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · MIL
Before
1971-72 · MIL · 34.8 points per game
After
1972-73 · MIL · 30.2 points per game
Context
NBA · MIL
1975-76Team change: from MIL to LAL
NBA · LAL
Before
1974-75 · MIL · 30.0 points per game
After
1975-76 · LAL · 27.7 points per game
Context
NBA · LAL
1986-87-5.9 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · LAL
Before
1985-86 · LAL · 23.4 points per game
After
1986-87 · LAL · 17.5 points per game
Context
NBA · LAL
1988-89-4.5 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · LAL
Before
1987-88 · LAL · 14.6 points per game
After
1988-89 · LAL · 10.1 points per game
Context
NBA · LAL

Production, season by season

An ACB point and an NBA point are not the same unit. The line puts seasons side by side; it does not make them equal.

1969-7028.8 points per game
NBA · MIL · 82 games
1970-7131.7 points per game
NBA · MIL · 82 games
1971-7234.8 points per game
NBA · MIL · 81 games
1972-7330.2 points per game
NBA · MIL · 76 games
1973-7427.0 points per game
NBA · MIL · 81 games
1974-7530.0 points per game
NBA · MIL · 65 games
1975-7627.7 points per game
NBA · LAL · 82 games
1976-7726.2 points per game
NBA · LAL · 82 games
1977-7825.8 points per game
NBA · LAL · 62 games
1978-7923.8 points per game
NBA · LAL · 80 games
1979-8024.8 points per game
NBA · LAL · 82 games
1980-8126.2 points per game
NBA · LAL · 80 games
1981-8223.9 points per game
NBA · LAL · 76 games
1982-8321.8 points per game
NBA · LAL · 79 games
1983-8421.5 points per game
NBA · LAL · 80 games
1984-8522.0 points per game
NBA · LAL · 79 games
1985-8623.4 points per game
NBA · LAL · 79 games
1986-8717.5 points per game
NBA · LAL · 78 games
1987-8814.6 points per game
NBA · LAL · 80 games
1988-8910.1 points per game
NBA · LAL · 74 games

FactDerivedAssumption

What this does not prove

An ACB point and an NBA point are not the same unit. The line puts seasons side by side; it does not make them equal.
«Changed» means a jump larger than 4.1 points per game. It is a declared threshold, not a model.
Role is read from minutes and production. We do not have a declared position for every European season.

From here

Professional DNA

What kind of player he is at the end of that road

What if…?

What happened to his team when he did not play

Where it comes from

Source

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Model input

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Computation

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This answer

2026-10-12

Where this comes from

Season averages · closed season · its clock is the seasonSeasons outside the NBA · closed season · its clock is the season

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