Can you name the leading scorer for each letter of the alphabet in NBA history?

created by Ben

Enter a player (last names acceptable) in the box below
Correctly named players will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
There has never been a basketball player in the NBA with a last name starting with the letter "X".
Last updated August 21st, 2009.
* - denotes active player.
Source: Basketball Reference
Updated September 2011
Also try: NBA Top 200 Scorers (2000s)

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Letter	Player	Points
A		38,387
B*		23,820
C		31,419
D		23,177
E		25,613
F		17,955
G		21,586
H		27,313
I*		23,983
J		32,292
K		19,655
L		19,248
M		36,928

Letter	Player	Points
N*		19,084
O*		27,619
P		23,334
Q*		945
R		26,710
S		19,711
T		19,015
U		10,624
V		15,980
W		26,668
Y*		9,196
Z		4,909

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NBA Scoring by Letter Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: August 22nd, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 80,902

Tags: Alphabet Quizzes, Letter Quizzes, NBA Quizzes, scorer, leading, point, scoring, player

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	bigsoxfan:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	4 points
	Great game!

	gttrsnp:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:16 GMT	4 points
	wow. i dont feel bad at all for missing some of these. i have a world b free jersey and i still would have never guessed him (sorry, spoiler)

	cheezguyty:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:19 GMT	8 points
	Isn't Chris Quinn still playing for the Miami Heat? If so, then the Q should have an asterisk by it.

	mattrd08:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:21 GMT	-3 points
	I was really surprised when I saw the asterisk by the letter B, because I was expecting it to be Larry Bird.

	Platypus222:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:26 GMT	41 points
	Attention anyone whose last name starts with 'X': Join the NBA immediately and you can automatically be in this quiz!

	burnage:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:31 GMT	-2 points
	cool quiz! too bad my neighbor doesn't play 4 the NBA. His last name is Xenod. no lie :)

	cottb128:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:35 GMT	0 points
	I think you should have the X pop-up just as a bonus answer for Xavier McDaniel. He is, in fact, the X-Man.

	brrap_brrap:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 15:38 GMT	0 points
	Color me surprised that Dirk Nowitzki has over 19,000 points. Didn't realize he'd been around long enough to have that many.

	polacco:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 16:07 GMT	33 points
	Yao ming has 9,196 career points. Since Yao is his family name (last name) shouldn't he have the most points for letter y?

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	ad808:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 16:14 GMT	1 point
	I remember O singled out Q as one of the players he was happy to leave behind when he bolted for the last team he played for. I correctly guessed the identity of player Z, but only because I knew the story of how Bob Cousy ended up with the Celtics. That didn't stop me from whiffing on the identity of player P, though. Tough quiz, but fun.

	rockgolf:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 16:32 GMT	29 points
	AHA! You forget! Kareem Abdul-Jabbar changed his name, so he should also be the correct answer under his original name of Lew Alcin... Never mind.

	Supernuke:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 17:02 GMT	3 points
	I really didn't expect World B Free to be on here, but I guessed it anyway lol. Didn't do so well with most of the other names on this list.

	Kicking222:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 17:08 GMT	3 points
	Jeez, waaaaaay harder than I thought it'd be. Some of these (especially Reggie freakin' Theus) really surprised me. I also didn't realize Wes Unseld had so few points- and he's a Hall of Famer!

	cocky:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 18:44 GMT	9 points
	I was surprised E wasn't Ewing or Erving.

	ZeroSignal:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 18:58 GMT	3 points
	I missed The Mailman? facepalm

	Sneuticles:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 19:18 GMT	3 points
	If you had told me six minutes ago that Parish > Pippen, and Wilkins > West, and Bryant > Bird, I would have cried shenanigans on you, dear sir.

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	cocky:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 19:28 GMT	4 points
	His real name was Lloyd Free. He had it legally changed.

	bobc:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 19:33 GMT	1 point
	Could use more time. There's a lot of names to run through on some letters before you get the right one.

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	tm4:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 20:32 GMT	2 points
	I second polacco's suggestion. Yao is his surname and the name on his jersey.

Ben:

Aug 22nd, 2009 at 21:49 GMT

4 points

Added Yao to the Y list... :)

	Adam:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 21:59 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, though shouldn't Yao have an asterisk as he is still in the NBA albeit his injured...

	Haunter:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 23:42 GMT	1 point
	great, now i didn't guess Yao when I played it a second time.

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	Rosco:	Aug 23rd, 2009 at 00:13 GMT	3 points
	Yao Ming should be listed as current though

	geowiz85:	Aug 23rd, 2009 at 01:27 GMT	2 points
	forgot the T name, but once the answers popped up it brought back great memories of watching Hangtime on Saturday morning tv

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	jUNKIEd:	Aug 23rd, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	3 points
	Amazing how many great players popped in my head all with the last name beginning in J. Gotta line up behind Jordan unfortunately.

	Platypus222:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 01:21 GMT	3 points
	@mimigirl: No, it's not his "last" name, but it is his family name. In China, the family name comes first, followed by the given name. Because of this, his jersey says "Yao" and he is properly referred to as "Mr. Yao" and not "Mr. Ming," but his friends would (presumably) call him "Ming."

	SeanJohn528:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 02:30 GMT	1 point
	def wouldve put yao ming in a heart beat if i new y was for yao...wasnt thinking of the chinese reverse order

	switzr1:	Aug 25th, 2009 at 06:31 GMT	0 points
	16. Inexcusable.

	cliffhanger5262:	Aug 26th, 2009 at 07:19 GMT	2 points
	If his 2 aba seasons would have counted george gervin would have more points than hal greer

	OilFan:	Sep 2nd, 2009 at 02:15 GMT	0 points
	Neat quiz! I'd love to see some for other sports leagues too (especially the NHL).

	mebejoe:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	2 points
	I think that part of the merger agreement between the ABA and NBA required the NBA to recognize the ABA stats. Therefore, I suggest that Dan Issel and Julius Erving should be answers for "I" and "E".

	zlb33:	Mar 28th, 2010 at 04:59 GMT	-1 points
	Haha chris quinn. And im glad Yao Ming is up there, just shows how global the NBA has become. :)

	dutchesNclutches:	May 27th, 2010 at 22:46 GMT	1 point
	first i thought i did bad when I only got 13, but thats 94 percentile. lolz at quinn

	sobdennis:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 03:59 GMT	0 points
	I could have sworn I put Malone in and it didn't take it. Maybe not. I could shoot myself for missing bryant. I kept thinking bird, Barry, and a few others.