Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Highest Scoring Birthdays in the NBA and ABA History


From the oldest birthday of  Nat Hickey born January 30th, 1902 (who interestingly, at 45 years and 363 days also became the oldest player to play in the NBA)  to the birthday of Devin Booker, October 30th, 1996 who is currently the youngest player in the NBA, there have been 12,372,777 combined points scored in the NBA and ABA.  Powered by Julius Erving and 20 other NBA/ABA players the 22nd of February has scored a total of 122,160 points, the most of any birthday in history.  Or about 48x more than December 29th's 2545 total points which is the lowest of the birthdays.

All the data includes points scored from players in both the NBA and ABA from the first games played through the 2015 season via http://www.basketball-reference.com/.

See where your special day lands among the most prolific scoring birthdays below.












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