Former Los Angeles Lakers trainer Gary Vitti says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and not Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan, is the greatest basketball player of all-time.
Abdul-Jabbar has scored the most points in NBA history, racking up 38,387 points in his Hall of Fame career. It's a record that Vitti doesn't believe will ever be broken.
“I believe that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was not only the greatest basketball player that ever played the game, I can make an argument that he was the greatest athlete to ever walk the planet,” Vitti told Brandon ‘Scoop B' Robinson on Scoop B Radio. “You really look at what Kareem accomplished in his career, there is no one that comes even close to his success that he has had in terms of championships. Whether it be high school, college, pros, MVPs, scoring, he is beyond, and I mean way beyond anybody else that has ever played any sport.
“They still haven’t broken his record and I don’t think anybody will because for one thing, no one will play long enough. It takes a lot of years to score that many points.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had way too many accolades in his NBA career. He was a 19-time All-Star, two-time scoring champion, six-time MVP, the 1970 Rookie of the Year, a six-time NBA champion, and a two-time Finals MVP.
Abdul-Jabbar also had the most unguardable shot in NBA history, his patented hook shot.
Follow Us
Subscribe