With 14 home games left on the schedule, Giannis Antetokounmpo is on pace to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 50-year record for most points scored at home by a Milwaukee Bucks player.
What Giannis Antetokoounmpo needs to do to break Kareem’s record
Kareem in 1971-72 tallied 1,200 points in home games for the Bucks. With 54 points in his home game Thursday night against the Los Angeles Clippers, Giannis now has 781 points in Bucks home games this season. He is averaging 35.5 points per game at home in 22 contests at Fiserv Forum. If Giannis averages 35.5 in his last 14 games at home, he will add 497 points to his 781 giving him 1,278 points in home games for the season, easily eclipsing the record by Jabbar.
There have been seven times in Bucks’ history where a player scored 1,000 or more points in home games in a season. Jabbar did it five times; Giannis has done it twice. Here are the Top 10 for most points scored at home by a Bucks player in a season.
Most points scored at home by a Bucks player in a season
1,200-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1971-72
1,090-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1970-71
1,080-Giannis Antetokounmpo, 2017-18
1,064-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1974-75
1,052-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1969-70
1,016-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1972-73
1,005-Giannis Antetokounmpo, 2018-19
996-Giannis Antetokounmpo, 2021-22
993-Michael Redd, 2005-06
968-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1973-74
The NBA record for most points scored in home games for a season is 1,539 by both Wilt Chamberlain in 1962-63 and Michael Jordan in 1986-87.
NBA players with most seasons with 1,200 points at home
Jordan has the most seasons with 1,200 or more points in home games in a season with six. Adrian Dantley is second with four seasons with 1,200+ points at home, followed by Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain, Alex English, George Gervin, James Harden, Allen Iverson, Karl Malone and Dominique Wilkins with three seasons each.
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