Editor’s Note: For as long as the NBA season is stopped, we’ll be taking a daily look back at players from Lakers history that we can’t stop thinking about. Today, we remember Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
36 years ago today, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made NBA history, using his signature skyhook to score the 31,420th points of his career, passing Wilt Chamberlain as the league’s all-time leading scorer. And Abdul-Jabbar was far from done, playing five more seasons before finishing with a total number of points that no one has ever come close to touching: 38,387.