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The minutes played statistics are recorded as far back as the 1951–52 season when statistics on minutes were first compiled by the National Basketball Association (NBA). Fifteen times the average leader has played fewer than 40 minutes per game and eight times the leader has played more than 46 minutes per game.
Total minutes Games played Minutes per game average [c] 1 LeBron James ^ SF: Cleveland Cavaliers (2003–2010, 2014–2018) Miami Heat (2010–2014) Los Angeles Lakers (2018–present) 58,541 1,548 37.8 2 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar * C: Milwaukee Bucks (1969–1975) Los Angeles Lakers (1975–1989) 57,446 1,560 36.8 3 Karl Malone * PF: Utah Jazz (1985 ...
Total minutes Games played Minutes per game average [3] 1 LeBron James ^ SF: Cleveland Cavaliers (2006–2010, 2015–2018) Miami Heat (2011–2014) Los Angeles Lakers (2020–2021, 2023–2024) 11,858 287 41.3 2 Tim Duncan * PF/C: San Antonio Spurs (1998–1999, 2001–2016) 9,370 251 37.3 3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar * C Milwaukee Bucks (1969–1975)
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NBA record – Most minutes played per game for a season (48.53 in 1961–62) Chamberlain holds the top 7 spots in this category; Chamberlain's 3,882 minutes played out of the team's possible 3,890 left an average of six seconds of rest per game. A regulation NBA basketball game is 48 minutes long.
A minute is a unit of time in a basketball game. Technically, just a minimum of one second in silo (1-59) would count as one minute of playing time. For example, there are forty-eight minutes in each NBA basketball game, excluding overtime. As five people from one team will be on the court at any given time, a total of 240 minutes can be ...
Some have argued that PER gives undue weight to a player's contribution in limited minutes, or against a team's second unit, and it undervalues players who have enough diversity in their game to play starter's minutes. PER has been said to reward inefficient shooting. To quote Dave Berri, the author of The Wages of Wins:
Averages per game are denoted by *PG, e.g. PPG (points), BLKPG or BPG (blocks), STPG or SPG (steals), APG (assists), RPG (rebounds) and MPG (minutes).Sometime the players statistics are divided by minutes played and multiplied by 48 minutes (had he played the entire game), denoted by * per 48 min. or *48M.