List of 50 NBA Leaders by Minutes in League History

Karim Abdul-Jabbar - NBA leader by minute in league history

This list includes 50 players who have played the most minutes in matches of the regular seasons of the National Basketball Association during their careers. A complete list of leaders in this nomination is published on basketball-reference.com ^[1] .

A large number of minutes spent by a basketball player on the floor in regular NBA seasons during his career indicates a player’s excellent health, enormous hard work, dedication to his favorite game, a great desire to help his team and a desire to prove that it’s too early to write off you. Some basketball players, despite their age, are in excellent physical shape and show excellent play both in attack and in defense, always delighting a huge number of their fans, which is of no small importance in the duration of a career. Only six basketball players have played 50,000 minutes or more at the moment, 19 people have crossed the milestone of 45,000 minutes and 34 players have more than 40,000 minutes.

The first player to break the 50,000 minute bar is Alvin Haze , who achieved this result in the 1983/84 season and ended his career at the end with the same rate. Two years later, in the 1985/86 championship, his achievement was repeated by Karim Abdul-Jabbar , who then played three more seasons and set up to date an unbeatable record of 57,446 minutes. In the 2001/02 season , Carl Malone surpassed the 50,000-minute mark, who ended his appearances in the NBA two years later, winning 54,552 minutes. In the 2012/13 season, the same result was shown by Jason Kidd , who ended his sports career in the same year with an indicator of 50 111 minutes. In the championship of 2015/16 , the same mark was overcome by Kevin Garnett , who completed his career at the end of it with a result of 50,418 minutes. And in the 2017/18 championship, this bar also obeyed the first European, Dirk Nowitzki , who completed his career at the end of the 2018/19 season, having played a total of 51 368 minutes.

The leader in terms of average for a game at the moment is Wilt Chamberlain , who after the end of his career has an active result of 45.80 minutes on average per game. The second place in this indicator is occupied by Bill Russell , who, according to the results of his performances, spent 42.29 minutes on average per game on the floor. In third place is Oscar Robertson , whose rate is 42.20 minutes on average per game ^[2] .

This list includes four active basketball players, the most playing of them is LeBron James , who is still in fifteenth place.