Top 10 Unbreakable NBA Basketball Records

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Dunking on these NBA records is no easy feat. Welcome to WatchMojo and today we’re counting down our picks for the NBA records that will stand the test of time.

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00:00History, tonight, the first father-son duo to play together in an NBA game.

00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the NBA records that will stand the test of time.

00:14A long three as Curry holds the record.

00:24Free throws may look easy given that they're taken when play and game time has been stopped,

00:29but they are difficult to execute well.

00:44To be considered a good free throw shooter, a player should make at least 80% of them.

00:49In the 2008-2009 season, Jose Calderon had a wild free throw percentage of 98.05%.

00:59Incredibly, he only missed three free throws out of 154 attempts.

01:09The closest percentages achieved since 1946 vary between 93 and 95%.

01:15Basically, for someone to surpass Calderon, they would have to pretty much hit everything.

01:21Does it bother you to talk about it?

01:22No, I don't think about it. I just shoot free throws. I gotta make it. That's my job, so...

01:29Even though he's been out of the league since 1973, the man still holds a bunch of records.

01:35When we say he was a dominating player in the NBA, we mean he was dominating.

01:40One area of the game where he was a force to be reckoned with was rebounding.

01:44In the 1960-61 season, he recorded a total of 2,149 rebounds,

01:50and in that same season, he also averaged 27.2 rebounds a game.

01:54Also another unbreakable record.

01:56The only other person to come close to him was Bill Russell with 1,930 rebounds in the 1963-64 season.

02:09In the 1995-96 NBA season, the Chicago Bulls did the impossible by winning 72 games,

02:15meaning they lost only 10 times that season.

02:20Yes!

02:21Michael Jordan has just been outstanding ever since Kiffin and Rodman went out of the lineup.

02:27Michael has picked it up, playing with a great deal of confidence.

02:3020 years later for the 2015-16 NBA season,

02:34the Golden State Warriors would improve on that record by a single game,

02:38finishing the season with 73 wins and 9 losses.

02:41It's official number 73.

02:45The greatest regular season in NBA history now belongs to the 2016 Golden State Warriors.

02:52Just reaching 70 wins is a Herculean task,

02:54as the previously mentioned teams are the only two to ever do it in the history of the NBA.

02:59Even 69 wins in a season has only happened twice so far,

03:03so to get to 74 wins, you would have to have one of the greatest NBA teams ever assembled.

03:08What kind of character has been required from your guys in the pursuit of this historic mark?

03:14I mean, that's everything for us.

03:16We have so many guys that sacrifice, everybody has a role in the team,

03:21and they come in every night with that focus.

03:24Number 7. Consecutive regular season games played.

03:27A.C. Green

03:28There's a reason why Green is called the Ironman.

03:31His record of 1,192 consecutive regular season games played is nothing short of spectacular.

03:38You went from November 19th, 1986 to April 18th, 2001,

03:45and you only missed three games in that 15-year span.

03:50I almost find that impossible.

03:52He played 16 seasons in the NBA, and during that time, he only missed three regular season games,

03:58and that was in his second season.

04:00Again, that's that perseverance that you talk about and that will, determination to play,

04:05but just tell me, how was it playing through?

04:07Because I know you didn't play 1,192 games healthy.

04:11There were some games that you played where you weren't healthy at all,

04:14and you still were able to push through it. Tell us a little bit about that.

04:17To eclipse this record, not only do you need to have career longevity and avoid injury during that time,

04:23you also need to be productive enough to be in your team's rotation.

04:27And you never once said, you know what, I'm tired, I just need time.

04:30Because I know we're going to go deep into the playoffs.

04:32Well, the thing about it, Phil Jackson nor Coach Roddy would ever listen to me.

04:35So, that was the thing about it.

04:37The current active streak is held by Mikel Bridges, but he's only six seasons in

04:41and has a long way to go to beat out Green.

04:47Scoring is obviously an important part of basketball.

04:50It's how you win the game, after all.

04:52Just as important is getting the ball to those who score,

04:55and the best at dishing out those assists is John Stockton.

05:03Over his career, he amassed a whopping 15,806 dimes.

05:07He played nearly 20 seasons in the NBA,

05:10and in many of those seasons, he played a full 82 games.

05:14Stockton, who's one of the league's most durable players,

05:17rarely missing a game in his 19 seasons.

05:20Never use excuses, you know.

05:22I've seen him, you know, with a little nagging injury here, a little nagging injury there,

05:27and right at game time, I say, are you ready to go? Yep.

05:29It's gonna take a lot to surpass his accomplishment.

05:31The closest is Jason Kidd with 12,091 assists,

05:35and the closest active player is Chris Paul sitting just below Kidd with just under 12,000.

05:40Oh, great behind the back pass, and Capella finishes it off.

05:45What a play!

05:51Several NBA players have played 20 or more seasons in the league,

05:55but none of them have played more regular season games than Robert Parrish,

05:59who's been in an astounding 1,611 games.

06:13The next closest is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 1,560 games.

06:18Not only would you need to be in the NBA for at least 20 seasons,

06:22you'd have to play a significant amount of those games for each season,

06:25which can be tricky, especially as players reach 40 years of age.

06:37For Parrish, during his career, he played at least 70 games a season,

06:41except for his last where he was in only 43 games.

06:46Career three-pointers.

06:48Stephen Curry.

06:49Arguably the best shooter of all time,

06:51nothing hits quite like watching Curry sink a deep three.

07:08It's almost unfair how he's able to make seemingly impossible shots.

07:12His current proclivity has made him the current record holder of made three-pointers

07:16since December 14th, 2021, when he passed Ray Allen.

07:31Curry is still active in the NBA,

07:34so it's unknown where exactly the final numbers will stand when everything is all said and done.

07:38For anyone to pass this record,

07:40they're gonna have to start putting up threes early and have a long career.

07:58When Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired in 1989,

08:01he finished with 38,387 career points.

08:09At the time, it seemed like an insurmountable feat,

08:14as a person would need to not only be a scoring machine,

08:17but also have a lengthy career.

08:19It just so happened that such a player came to pass

08:21when LeBron James was able to surpass Abdul-Jabbar on February 8th, 2023.

08:35James is still active in the league

08:37and has scored over 40,000 points

08:39and in this late stage of his career, continues to put up impressive numbers.

08:43Essentially, it's gonna take another LeBron James to unseat this record.

08:48LeBron, you are the NBA's all-time scoring leader.

08:54Congratulations!

09:06Chamberlain is one of the greatest to ever play the game.

09:09Standing at 7 feet 1 inch tall,

09:11he was just an absolute marvel and dominated the NBA.

09:15He had erupted onto the scene in 1959,

09:17winning Rookie of the Year and MVP honors in the same season.

09:21In fact, it was only in his third season

09:23when he scored 100 points in a single game on March 2nd, 1962.

09:28Unfortunately, no video footage of the game exists,

09:32as the NBA wasn't considered a major league

09:34and didn't broadcast every game.

09:36The game against the Knicks began and it was clear from the outset

09:39that it was going to be a magical night.

09:41There was no television coverage

09:43and only a few thousand fans were in attendance,

09:45but the ones who witnessed it saw history unfold.

09:49Chamberlain was a scoring machine that season

09:51as he averaged 50.4 points a game.

09:54Another unbreakable record, by the way.

09:56The closest anyone has come was Kobe Bryant

09:59when he scored 81 points in 2006.

10:02And an 81-point game, 55 in the second half.

10:07Ladies and gentlemen, you have witnessed

10:09the second greatest scoring performance in NBA history.

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10:29Number 1. Most Championships as a Player – Bill Russell

10:33Winning an NBA championship is quite an accomplishment.

10:36It's not an easy task to achieve.

10:38So imagine winning a mind-boggling 11 of them.

10:41Yet for all his accolades, one aspect of his transcendent career stands out.

10:47He has more titles to his credit than any other player in NBA history.

10:52That'd put you on the same level as the legendary Boston Celtic Bill Russell.

10:56Most of his wins came at a time when the Celtics

10:58were the dominant team in the NBA during the 60s.

11:01And there were less than 15 teams in the league at this time.

11:04That's it. It's all over. It's all over.

11:08Everybody in the place is yelling and screaming.

11:11They deserve it, John.

11:12They're the greatest basketball team that was ever assembled.

11:15It's a set of conditions that will never be seen again

11:18as the league has expanded to 30 teams.

11:20And even winning three or more championships is hard enough,

11:23let alone 11.

11:25Russell is the greatest winner of all time,

11:28the most valuable player of all time,

11:33and no one can equal his record of 11 championships in 13 years.

11:38What NBA record do you think is unbreakable?

11:41Let us know in the comments.

11:45The all-time leading scorer, you have witnessed it,

11:49LeBron James.

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