The National Basketball Association, often known simply as the NBA, is a professional basketball league played across the continent of North America. The league is one of the most important professional sports leagues in both the United States and Canada.
It has a total of 30 clubs, 29 of which are based in the United States, and one team that plays in Canada. It is widely considered to be the best men’s professional basketball league in the entire globe.
Moses Malone
Moses Eugene Malone was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) between the years 1974 and 1995. He was born on March 23, 1955, and passed away on September 13, 2015. He was 63 years old.
27,409 points.
He played centre and was selected to the NBA All-Star Game 12 times in addition to making the All-NBA Team eight times. He won the NBA Most Valuable Player award three times.
Melo Anthony Carmelo
Carmelo Anthony, well known by his nickname Melo, is an American professional basketball player who was one of the most prolific scorers in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born on May 29, 1984, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
28,289 points.
Anthony’s mother decided that a school in western Virginia would provide a more conducive atmosphere for his education than the dangerous neighborhood in which he had spent his childhood in Baltimore, Maryland.
Anthony attended Syracuse University during the academic year 2002–03, and during his freshman year, he was the point guard for the basketball team that won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) title. Anthony’s performance in the semifinal game helped him earn the Most Outstanding Player award at the NCAA Final Four, in part because he scored 33 points during that game.
Shaquille O’Neal
American basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, whose full name is Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal and whose nickname is Shaq, was born on March 6, 1972, in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He was selected by the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1996 to be one of the league’s 50 greatest players of all time.
28,596 points.
When O’Neal was a senior in high school in San Antonio, Texas, his team won the state championship, which drew the attention of college recruiters looking to fill open positions on their teams.
He received his education at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he rose rapidly through the ranks to become one of the most accomplished players in the country. In 1991, the majority of voters agreed that he was the best college player overall. In 1992, O’Neal dropped out of school and entered the NBA draught. The Orlando Magic selected him with the first overall pick in the draught. On the other hand, he completed his education at LSU and received his degree in the year 2000.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan, better known by his nickname “Air Jordan,” was an American collegiate and professional basketball player who was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Jordan is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-around players in the history of the game of basketball.
His full name is Michael Jeffrey Jordan. It was under his direction that the Chicago Bulls won six titles in the National Basketball Association (NBA) (1991–1993 and 1996–1998).
32,292 points.
The town of Wilmington, North Carolina, was Jordan’s home throughout his childhood, and he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill beginning in 1981. In the national championship game versus Georgetown in 1982, he was a freshman when he made the basket that proved to be the game-winning one.
Jordan was recognized as the best college player in both his sophomore and junior years, and he was awarded the title in both of those years. Jordan graduated from the University of North Carolina following his junior year. Both in 1984 in Los Angeles and 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, he led the United States men’s basketball team to Olympic gold medal victories.
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant, whose full name was Kobe Bean Bryant, was an American professional basketball player. He was born on August 23, 1978, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and passed away on January 26, 2020, in Calabasas, California.
Bryant played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), which helped the team win five championships (2000–02 and 2009–10).
33,643 points.
Joe “Jelly Bean” Bryant, Bryant’s father, was a professional basketball player who played for the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eight seasons and then played professionally in Italy for another eight seasons. Bryant attended high school in Italy.
Bryant played basketball at Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, after his family relocated back to the United States. There, he won multiple national Player of the Year accolades and broke the southeastern Pennsylvania scoring record held by Wilt Chamberlain with 2,883 points.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was an American collegiate and professional basketball player who, as a 7-foot 2-inch tall centre, dominated the game throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.
Before 1971, he was known by the name Lew Alcindor, which was the byname of his father, Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also known as Lew Alcindor. He was born on April 16, 1947, in New York, New York, United
His offensive skill was so developed coming out of high school that the collegiate basketball rules committee, fearing that he would be able to score at will, made dunking illegal before he enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1965.
38,387 points.
This was because the committee believed that he would be able to score regardless of the situation. Despite the new regulation, he scored 56 points in his debut game for UCLA, which is enough to set a scoring record. During the time that Alcindor was a member of the UCLA basketball team (from 1967 to 1969), the Bruins were undefeated, winning all but two of their games and winning three National Collegiate Athletic Association championships under the direction of legendary coach John Wooden. In the years that followed Alcindor’s graduation, the prohibition on dunking was eventually lifted.
