With seven blocked shots in the last two games, Brook Lopez now has 126 blocked shots this season. He just became the 13th player in NBA history to have 120 or more blocked shots in 10 or more seasons.
Brook Lopez is one of 13 players to have 120+ blocks in 10 or more seasons
Tim Duncan leads this list of elite defenders with 16 seasons with 120+ blocked shots. Here are the 13 players with 10 or more seasons with 120+ blocked shots.
16-Tim Duncan
14-Hakeem Olajuwon
13-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
12-Dikembe Mutumbo
11-Alonzo Mourning, Shaquille O’Neal, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing
10-Brook Lopez, Marcus Camby, Larry Nance, Mark Eaton, Tree Rollins
It is also the third season in Lopez’s career with the Bucks that he had 120+ blocks. He joins Alton Lister and Harvey Catchings who each had four seasons with 120+ blocks with the Bucks, and Andrew Bogut who had three seasons with 120 or more blocked shots with Milwaukee.
The Bucks are 8-0 in games this season when Brook Lopez has five or more blocks
Lopez’s five blocks against the Hornets on Tuesday night was the eighth game this season that he had five or more blocks. He is second in the league in that category this season; Jaren Jackson, Jr., from Memphis, has 10 games this season with five or more blocks in a game. The Bucks are 8-0 this season in games when Brook Lopez has five or more blocks.
Lopez’s eight games with 5+ blocks is tied for seventh on the Bucks all-time list for most games in a season with five or more blocks. Jabbar tops the list with 23 games with five-plus blocked shots in the 1973-74 season.
Lopez is fourth on Bucks’ list for most career games with 5+ blocked shots
In his five-year career with the Bucks, Lopez now has 28 games with five-plus blocks. That is fourth on the team’s career list behind Jabbar (37), Harvey Catchings (32) and Alton Lister (30).
Lopez has a total of 56 career games with five or more blocks which ties him for 34th most in NBA history.
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