All-Star Edition - basketball statistics - Brief Article - Illustration

Basketball Digest, March, 2001

How many more Slam Dunk Contest won by Michael Jordan than Harold "Baby Jordan" Miner: 0

How many more career points scored by Michael Jordan than Harold "Baby Jordan" Miner: 27,476

Top All-Star field-goal shooting percentage, of Larry Nance and Randy Smith: .714

Coaches who have won All-Star Games in the both the NBA and ABA: 1 (Larry Brown)

Coaches who have won an NBA All-Star Game and been MVP of an ABA All-Star Game 1: (Larry Brown)

Triple-doubles in All-Star history: 1 (Michael Jordan)

Points per minute scored by Mitch Richmond in the 1995 All-Star Game: 1.05

Points per minute scored by Rick Barry in the 1967 All-Star Game. 1.12

Number of consecutive free throws Gary Payton must make to become the, All-Star Game's all-time best: 2

Consecutive All-Star Shootout won by Larry Bird and Craig Hodges: 3

Number of the First s, seven shootout won Bird and Hodges: 6

Percentage of all All-Star Shootout won by Bird or Hedges: 43%

Players who have won All-Star Game MVPs and coached All-Star winners: 4

Players who did both and won the All-Star MVP while a player-coach: 1 (Lenny Wilkens)

Record number of All-Star Game coaching wins for Red Auerbach: 7

Number of other coaches who have coached in as many as seven All-Star Games: 0

NBA All-Star Games played by both Paul Arzin and George Gervin: 9

All-Star Game points scored by both Paul Arzin and George Gervin: 137

Record total of All-Star Games played by Kareen Abdul-Jabbar: 18

How many more All-Star Games Abdul-Jabbar played in than the player with the next-highest total: 5

Longest field-goal made in All-Star competition, feet: 70 (Bill Sharman, 1957)

Post-shot Clock record-scoring low set by the West All-Stars in 1973: 84

Career All-Star scoring totals for ex-Knicks Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, and Bob McAdoo: 88

All-Star Game record crowd in 1989 at the Houston Astrodome: 44,735

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