Minute (basketball)

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A minute is a unit of time in a basketball game. Technically, just a minimum of one second in silo (1-59) would count as one minute of playing time. For example, there are forty-eight minutes in each NBA basketball game, excluding overtime. As five people from one team will be on the court at any given time, a total of 240 minutes can be distributed in regulation among a team in an NBA basketball game.

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For players, the total number of minutes played in a season—and the average number of minutes played per game—are both tracked as statistics.

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Abdul-Jabbar played a total of 57,446 minutes, more than any other player in the NBA until Lebron James passed him on December 19, 2024. Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar Lipofsky.jpg
Abdul-Jabbar played a total of 57,446 minutes, more than any other player in the NBA until Lebron James passed him on December 19, 2024.

LeBron James is the all-time leader in minutes played with 57,578 as of December 30, 2024. , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (57,446), Karl Malone (54,852), Dirk Nowitzki (51,368), Kevin Garnett (50,418), Jason Kidd (50,111), and Elvin Hayes (50,000) are the only other players with 50,000 or more minutes played in a career. [2] Most of Abdul-Jabbar and Hayes's minutes can largely be attributed to the amount of playing time that star players had in the late 1960s and early-to-mid 1970s. Abdul-Jabbar played 40 or more minutes per game from the 1969–70 season to the 1975–76 season, [3] while Hayes played 40 or more minutes per game from the 1968–69 season to the 1974–75 season and from the 1976–77 season to the 1977–78 season. [4]

Wilt Chamberlain holds the record for most minutes played in the NBA in one season with 3,882, set in the 1961–62 season.

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References

  1. ↑ "Lakers star LeBron James breaks NBA record for career minutes". nba.com. Retrieved Dec 30, 2024.
  2. ↑ "NBA & ABA Career Leaders and Records for Minutes Played". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved Dec 30, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Elvin Hayes Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved May 19, 2019.


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