NBA All Time Points Leaders and Their Regular Season and Playoffs Stats

#2 Karl Malone

Enter caption

Regular season points total: 36928

Playoff points total: 4761

The Mailman combined with fellow Utah Jazz legend John Stockton to form the most prolific pick-and-roll partnership in the history of the league. Indeed, the duo helped each other set some insane scoring and assists records, and their styles of play couldn't have complemented each other's better. Having said that, Malone was always the man whenever the Jazz needed to grind out a win on a bad day, for the Mailman always delivered.

Karl Malone's longevity and conditioning is truly the stuff of legend. Like LeBron James is looked upon as a veritable Iron Man for his ability to play world-class basketball on heavy usage through the years, Karl Malone was that player for his generation, appearing in 80 or more regular season games for 18 of his 19 regular season campaigns.

While Malone was never truly a threat to win a scoring title due to Jerry Sloan's well-rounded rosters, he was dominant enough to be recognized as the best power forward in NBA history before the advent of the likes of Garnett, Duncan and Nowitzki. Three Finals appearances attest to the same.